Our state representatives have just voted to give themselves a 43% pay raise, from $28,000 to $40,000 annually along with automatic cost of living increases every two years. This may appear to be a paltry amount, even with this large percentage increase; but Connecticut has a part time legislature – a remnant of […]

         Ms. Kathleen Cataford – a seventy-seven-year-old school nurse at the Kinsella Magnet School in Hartford – was placed on administrative leave by Superintendent, Dr. Leslie Torres-Rodriguez, for posting the following on Facebook:        “As a public school nurse, I have an 11yo female student on puberty blockers and a dozen identifying as non-binary, […]

        The COVID pandemic is entering its third year and a political consensus is now forming – we have to live with this virus.       In spite of confusing and conflicting policies by our public officials, COVID has followed basic epidemiological trends of past pandemics – the bubonic plague, small pox, the influenza epidemic of 1918 […]