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Quinnipiac poll gears up for final stretch of election 2016
HARTFORD, Conn. – Quinnipiac University’s polls have become well known throughout the country but nothing brings as much recognition as a spicy presidential contest.
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Opinion: American divorce
Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats. Recently, a young man I was speaking with discovered I wrote about politics. “Which side?” he immediately asked. I hemmed and hawed, mumbling something about fairness. “Yeah, but which side?” he pressed. I admitted…
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Tough pill to swallow for Bernie supporters
HARTFORD, Conn. – Hard-core Connecticut supporters of Bernie Sanders are having a hard time digesting that the 74-year-old Democratic socialist campaign for president is over — and — that he endorsed Hillary Clinton.
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Opinion: Will Clinton turn her back on public education if elected president?
Joseph Ricciotti is a retired educator. It would appear more than likely that Hillary Clinton will be elected as the next president of the United States come next fall. She can be thankful in no small part to the major role that the teacher organizations in the nation such as the National Educational Association (NEA)…
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Senate president: Overriding Malloy’s budget line vetoes would be ‘largely symbolic’
HARTFORD, Conn. – The House and the Senate reconvened Monday to discuss whether they will override the $22.5 million in funding Gov. Dannel P. Malloy vetoed from the budget, but in the end they declined. The House wanted to override the veto, but the Senate, which would have to take the bill up first, declined.
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Clinton talks comprehensive gun safety reform in Hartford’s north end
HARTFORD, Conn. – Only three percent of likely Democratic primary voters told the Quinnipiac University poll last week that gun policy was the “most important issue in deciding who to support” — the economy, income inequality, and health care were the only issues to poll in the double digits.
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Clinton, Kasich to campaign in Connecticut
HARTFORD, Conn. – Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced Monday that the Democratic front-runner will campaign in the state on Thursday.
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Opinion: To fall from a great and gruesome height: Iowa 2016
Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats. I dread this election. The mood in this country is ugly, especially on the right, and I have no trouble imagining that we keep following that nastiness down a dark road.
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Opinion: The year when something’s gotta give – predictions for 2016
Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats. Good morning, and welcome to a blank slate. As of Friday, 2016 gets underway and with it the hope that the new year will be better, fresher, more full of possibility and goodness than…
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Opinion: GOP presidential debates – another dismal night for progress
Kiernan Majerus-Collins, 20, is a student at Bates College and a Democratic Town Committee member from West Hartford. He can be reached on Facebook This week’s Republican presidential debates supplied plenty of evidence that the GOP candidates are still pandering to the extreme right-wing factions in their party. For women and people of color, for…
