Terry Cowgill
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OP-ED | Rent Control Advocates Barking Up The Wrong Tree
Opinion writer Terry Cowgill: Should renters be protected from excessive increases in their cost of living? That's essentially the question raised by a pair of bills being debated by the legislature's housing committee. It is a thorny question prompting passions on both sides, as is typically the case whenever people's interests are threatened. → Read More
OP-ED | How Bad An Idea is Compulsory Voting? Let Me Count The Ways
Opinion writer Terry Cowgill describes this year's proposal to make voting in elections mandatory as a case of smart people coming up with a bad idea. → Read More
OP-ED | State Police Contracts, Taking Out The Trash, And Other Thoughts
Opinion writer Terry Cowgill highlights the state's difficulty in hiring State Troopers, and what's being done about it, along with Connecticut's trash conundrum. → Read More
OP-ED | Connecticut Opens Its Eyes And Its Doors to Legal Weed
Patrons move through a line inside Fine Fettle Dispensary in Willimantic TERRY COWGILL For better or worse (better, I think), Connecticut last week → Read More
OP-ED | Wine In Grocery Stores: In Connecticut, Perish The Thought
Opinion writer Terry Cowgill asks whether this could be the year Lucy's conscience catches up with her and she actually holds the football long enough for Charlie Brown to boot it toward the goalpost? → Read More
OP-ED | Will Winsted Embrace 'Citizen' Ralph's Newspaper Venture?
Opinion writer Terry Cowgill discusses Ralph Nader's latest project – a newspaper to be launched in the coming weeks in Winsted, Connecticut, with the help of longtime journalist Andy Thibault. → Read More
OP-ED | Ten Years After Sandy Hook, Too Much Work Remains
December 14, 2012, is one of those days during which virtually everyone in Connecticut remembers where they were when they heard the news out of Sandy Hook. For another generation it might have been where they were when they heard the news of President Kennedy's death, or of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in which 161 people with ties to our state perished. → Read More
OP-ED | McKinney, Fasano Tell 'Spoiled Child' Trump To Get Lost
It appears that Donald Trump had lost his appeal to some Connecticut Republicans even before he called for the "termination" of portions of the Constitution. → Read More
OP-ED | Confusion In 'Washington' – Free Speech Or Law Breaking?
As anyone who has built a new home or started a business will tell you, most towns have strict zoning codes and they don't generally hesitate to enforce them. Sometimes there are gray areas in the law, the parties cannot agree and the matter winds up in court. On rare occasions, national politics intrudes. Welcome to Washington – not the District of Columbia, but the sleepy town of 3,500 in… → Read More
OP-ED | Apropos of Nothing: Of Voting, Bob's Union Support, and the Gas Tax Reprieve
We're glad the 2022 election is over, but there are still ramifications, implications, and consequences to sort out. To wit, largely lost in the Bob vs. Ned duel and the Logan-Hayes dust-up was the important but unsexy subject of early voting. → Read More
OP-ED | The 2022 Wipeout: What Will Connecticut's GOP Learn From It?
As it became clear in the wee hours of Wednesday morning that another Democratic sweep of Connecticut's statewide and congressional offices was inevitable, I asked myself a variation of Albert Einstein's now-famous quote about insanity: How can Republicans in our state think that the same strategy that has failed them multiple times will work if they simply deploy it over and over again? → Read More
OP-ED | Limited Bear Hunting Season Long Overdue In Connecticut
While the rest of the world is focused on the congressional midterm and statewide elections that take place in two weeks, we in Connecticut were recently reminded that all too often it takes a tragedy to spur the government into taking action to protect human life. Such was the case after the Sandy Hook massacre. While tragedy has been averted, we may still have reached that point of action… → Read More
OP-ED | Saving Hospitals: Who Says Bipartisanship Is Dead?
Political observers such as yours truly can rattle off a list of public policy items – hot-button issues that really fire people up: crime; inflation; gun control; abortion; LGBTQ rights. But few issues motivate people in Connecticut more than the potential loss of healthcare services. → Read More
OP-ED | Teachers Wanted: No Experience Necessary
Merchants and retailers still struggle to fill positions, as they will readily tell you. So there is no question that if you've got a job to fill, it's bound to be an uphill climb – here in Connecticut and most everywhere else. But the shortage I find most interesting lies in the sphere of public education. → Read More
OP-ED | In My Corner Of Connecticut, Two Competitive Races Stand Out
While the 5th District congressional election might be close, few observers give the Republican Party much of a chance of retaking one or more houses in the Connecticut General Assembly. I share that sentiment, in part because turnout in non-presidential years tends to be light and low turnout generally favors incumbents. To wit, the last time the Connecticut Republicans made truly significant… → Read More
OP-ED | Often Overlooked, Affordable Housing Becomes A Campaign Issue
Here's a very quick straw poll of everyone in the room. Anyone who thinks affordable housing isn't a problem in Connecticut, speak now or forever hold your peace. The directive is followed by a deafening silence. That's because if there's one thing conservatives and progressives alike can agree on, it's that housing in the state is too expensive. → Read More
OP-ED | Will September Surprise In Greenwich Move The Needle?
Every now and then during otherwise dreary political campaigns, something happens that moves the needle. Republicans are hoping that a September surprise will be just what it takes to dethrone Democratic Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont in November, and perhaps give a boost to the longshot candidacy of Republican nominee Leora Levy as she seeks to unseat incumbent Sen. Dick Blumenthal. → Read More
OP-ED | When Cops Issue Phony Tickets, Confidence In Law Enforcement Suffers
If you Google "Connecticut State Police," you'll find plenty of stories of quick thinking, heroism, human tragedy, and timely warnings against consumer fraud. And, as is the case with most police departments, you'll also find the ugly: misconduct; use of excessive force; and assorted improprieties too numerous to mention here. → Read More
OP-ED | If Connecticut Republicans Want To Win, Some Soul Searching Is In Order
What happens when a political party gets wiped out in elections? Typically, there are varying degrees of soul searching, hand wringing, pearl clutching – you name the cliché – among the party faithful, depending on the severity of the defeat. It's unusual to see such activity before the general election, but if the early buzz is any indication, most Connecticut Republicans aren't happy with the… → Read More
OP-ED | Can Yang's Third Party Succeed? Depends On Where 'Forward' Is
In my most frustrated moments after I've tried and failed to get started on a writing project, I often prompt myself by muttering, "There's got to be another way." Alas, I find myself doing much the same thing as I try to assess the state of politics in the United States and even in Connecticut specifically. With apologies to my Democratic and Republican friends, whose abiding faith in the… → Read More