Sometimes when we have a change of scenery we can see things from a fresh perspective. Away from the usual sights, sounds, and smells of home we can move away from our habitual associations to seeing something new. It doesn’t last for long, of course, because we have to return home eventually, and of...
by Marian Wang The E. coli outbreak in Germany—identified by scientists as a new deadly strain of the bacteria—has by now killed at least 17 people and spread to 10 countries . And while it hasn’t yet hit United States, the outbreak has highlighted longstanding gaps in the U.S. system for identifying such threats....
If you want to get the other side about Islam and what Muslims here are are like, please watch last week’s Watchdog News Hour show with Hartford Hospital Cardiologist Dr. Reza Mansoor and Hartford Seminary graduate student Craig Phillips. The two are members of the Muslim Coalition Of Connecticut and were our guests on...
I have written many times about the absence of federal laws that would give uniform protection to the elderly, especially from the growing scourge of Granny Snatching, wherein people living in one state are forcibly confined in another state and stripped of their assets, based on the claim that they are incompetent. On June...
by Rob Gurwitt Connecticut’s private employers have seen the price of health insurance premiums for workers and their families rise 102 percent since 1999, an analysis by C-HIT shows. The amount that families pay for this coverage rose an even steeper 107 percent. The increases came during a decade when median household income in...