Cocaine-addled killers driving school buses?

 We learned today that the school bus driver who ran down a pedestrian early one October morning — before the kids were on board — allegedly had cocaine in his system at the time.
And, as if that wasn’t enough, it turns out the Division of Motor Vehicles apparently failed to suspend the guy’s license even [...]

Send Lieberman to Iraq

It hit me tonight: Joe needs to go to Iraq.
I don’t mean he needs to pick up a gun and hunt down insurgents, though if he wants to give it a try, that’s fine by me. But it also doesn’t mean he should fly in, wave at the troops and get the hell out ASAP.
What [...]

Republicans on the ropes

It wasn’t so many years ago that West Hartford was a hot battleground between the GOP and the Democrats. I remember the tight fights, the vicious radio advertising, the divided boards, the feeling that our town wasn’t taken for granted by either party.
Now the Republicans are utterly in ruins. Their candidates get killed. Their agenda [...]

The mess at Trout Brook & Park

I look at them working away there while I sit and sit and sit waiting to get on the interstate. And I’m still not sure exactly what this project is all about. I hope it’s over soon, but can someone tell me what it is they’re doing?

Lieberman returns to DC

I wonder how many times in the next six years I’m going to cringe because I voted for him. I like the guy. I respect him. I’m not even sorry I pulled his lever. But I also know he’s going to drive me crazy with his reckless pursuit of both television cameras and bipartisanship.