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The state chapter of the ACLU is pressuring schools in Enfield and South Windsor to not hold their graduation ceremonies at First Cathedral in Bloomfield: ENFIELD — For Enfield school officials, First Cathedral of Bloomfield offered a solution to a problem: a place big enough to hold the graduation ceremony for Enrico Fermi High School’s […]

The town of Griswold has chosen to defy demands by a state atheist group that it divest itself of bells chimed from a Baptist Church–and that the bells be turned down: GRISWOLD, Conn. (AP) — Local officials vow that the bells of a Baptist church will continue to peal above the complaints of atheists. A […]

Yesterday’s Courant also had a front page story on Hartford’s “image issue:” For those trying to sell it, the city is all about New England charm, wholesome family outings, high culture, good food and vibrant neighborhoods. But, partly because of zoning regulations designed to isolate the city’s virtue from its vice, Hartford’s highways sell a […]

Headline of an AP story in yesterday’s (Waterbury) Sunday Republican: 109th Congress passes bundle of bills, then passes into history Headline of the same AP story in yesterday’s Courant: GOP Congress Goes Home With Tail Between Legs Liberal bias at the Hartford Courant? Perish the thought.

Each year we face the War over Christmas and the attack on public displays of faith.  But stealing statues of the Baby Jesus from nativity scenes as a joke? From today’s Hartford Courant: December 9 2006 It’s not Christmas until baby Jesus starts disappearing from outdoor Nativity scenes. The thefts happen annually throughout the country, and last weekend, […]

Parents of parochial school students are hoping that more of their tax dollars can be spent on their children’s schools: Like many parents who send their children to parochial school, Manchester resident David Blackwell wants more of his property tax dollars used to support nonpublic education. “It think it just makes sense,” said Blackwell, whose advocacy […]

Our new FIC blog is off and running, sparking commentary all across the web. The inclusion of Connecticut Local Politics on our “Opponents” blogroll provoked criticism from liberal bloggers Colin McEnroe, Connecticut Bob, Spazeboy and others claiming that CLP is a centrist blog that we have falsely categorized as liberal. And yet it is a […]

I think Drinking Liberally in New Milford had one too many this evening.  Here is yet another blogger on the extreme left making accusations before thinking.   He claims that we are lying about the fact that we received 350,000 hits last month.  And then goes on to compare our hits number with another sites views number.  You can’t compare hits to views, […]

This commercial speaks for itself.  Hats off to our friends at the Family Research Institute of Wisconsin for passing the state marriage amendment and helping produce this! We want to get something like this on the air in Connecticut.

One of our readers, Sherlock, asks for evidence that the Courant is losing readership because of liberal bias.  There are really two questions here:  1.) What is the evidence that the Courant is biased; and, if it is, 2.) What is the evidence that that liberal bias is hurting their circulation. On the first question, the evidence […]