Crisp days, cooler nights, who doesn’t love fall? But taking a fall – that’s a different issue. Leaves in an array of colors add a blanket of pre-winter beauty to the New England landscape. But what lies beneath those leaves can be treacherous. Holes, hoses, branches and toys can be camouflaged trip hazards around your […]
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What voters need to know
Gov. Chris Christie got the debates exactly right. “If you can’t take it on the stage, no matter whether it’s fair or unfair … then how are you going to take running against Hillary Clinton?” he told NBC. “How are you going to take negotiating for America around the world?” Being president is a pretty […]
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Chaos and bashing
From the get-go, the CNBC moderators lost control of the third Republican presidential debate to the candidates. And it wasn’t hard. Sen. Ted Cruz wrested a budget question away from CNBC reporter Carl Quintanilla and turned it on him. “The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media,” Cruz […]
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GOP campaigns ponder: Is it safe to attack Ben Carson?
Even before Ben Carson shot to the lead of the Republican presidential race in Iowa, rival campaigns from Donald Trump down began grappling with the question: How to defeat the genial, soft-spoken, African-American brain surgeon who has quietly captured the imagination of so many GOP voters ? The answer: very carefully. “I don’t think we […]
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Editorial Roundup
The Connecticut Post (Conn.), Oct. 24: True to their words, U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, both D-Conn., are pressing their tough gun-safety agenda on Capitol Hill. Wednesday they co-sponsored legislation that would eliminate yet another loophole in the acquisition of a firearm, an exemption that allows the sale of a gun if an […]
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No, journalists don’t have dramatic license
Here’s a controversial opinion: fiction doesn’t belong in newspapers unless clearly labeled as such. Anonymous sources are tricky enough, but journalists simply have no business contriving dramatized scenes with dialogue and characters – describing their innermost thoughts and feelings with no attribution whatsoever. To do so is inherently deceptive. Which brings us to the curious […]
