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Unions Should Concede Shorter Hours

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Unions Should Concede Shorter Hours

Here's a new concept, a state employee concession plan that everybody can understand: guarantee jobs for a shorter workweek.

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Campaign Ruling Is Blow To Free Speech

Campaign Ruling Is Blow To Free Speech

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling last week invalidating certain grants to publicly funded...

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OPINION COLUMNISTS

Kevin Rennie

Kevin Rennie

Life Of Promise Ended In A Crosswalk, Run Down By A UConn Bus - July 10, 2011 - Gifted University of Connecticut student Dave Plamondon was proof that even the dreariest politician is right to claim the young will...

Colin McEnroe

Colin McEnroe

Things We Know We Don't Know - July 10, 2011 - 'There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some...

Susan Campbell

Susan Campbell

Cooling Center Offers A Break From Heat - July 13, 2011 - Outside, women in sundresses move down Coventry Street in slow motion. An old man sits fanning himself in the shade. A young mother pushes...

Tom Condon

Tom Condon

Shortsighted Lending Blocks 'Agile City' - July 10, 2011 - There was, until about five years ago, a lovely old three-story brick building at the corner Wethersfield Avenue and Airport Road in the...

Frank Harris III

Frank Harris III

Facing My Fear: Who's Living In The Attic? - July 7, 2011 - I'd gone into my attic before to stop giant bees from burrowing through the ceiling into the baby's room. But I wasn't so keen on climbing...

Robert M. Thorson

Robert M. Thorson

Why Cougar Story Won't Just Go Away - June 30, 2011 - The case of cougars in Connecticut is getting curiouser and curiouser.

NATIONAL COLUMNISTS

George F. Will

George F. Will

Democrats Fueled Fannie Mae Lending Excesses - July 4, 2011 - Most explanations of the financial calamity have been indecipherable to people not fluent in the language of "credit...

Charles Krauthammer

Charles Krauthammer

No One Declares War Anymore, New Rules Needed - June 25, 2011 - Is the Libya war legal? Under the 1973 War Powers Resolution, it is not. President Barack Obama has exceeded the 90-day...

David Ignatius

David Ignatius

Gen. Petraeus: Afghanistan Surge Working - July 1, 2011 - A week ago, late on the night that President Barack Obama announced he would be withdrawing troops from Afghanistan...