Governor Lamont’s budget creates a new job in the Secretary of the State’s office, the “Election Information Security Analyst.” Salary is around $150,000 a year. Superficially, this looks like just another publicly-funded sinecure for some political hack. But this is worse. Much worse.        This person’s job will be to monitor the internet, […]

         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, […]