As Christmas Day approaches, I would like to say Merry Christmas to those who celebrate Jesus Christ’s birth; and Happy Hanukkah to those of the Jewish faith. May you and your families have a blessed holiday season! Mayor Pete Bass…

Whenever Connecticut makes the news on Fox Business Network (FBN), you know it’s not good. On Dec. 14, FBN’s website carried a story entitled “Connecticut, faced with $208M deficit, seeks to raise taxes even higher.” Accompanying it was a May…

President Trump and congressional Republicans are touting their first and only legislative “victory” together. Big deal. Here’s what they’ve really “achieved.” They’ve gifted massive tax cuts to their big-money donors, including corporate America. In their warped process, the poor and…

Republican-American reporter Michael Puffer deserves an award for his coverage of the Naugatuck River spill. These days, the news cycle rewards speed, sometimes to the detriment of diligence and substance. Mr. Puffer’s thorough and workmanlike pursuit of an important story…

I write in response to the horrific Dec. 16 article “Borough doctor accused of sexual misconduct,” about Dr. Robert Matusz. How dare the Republican-American sensationalize claims that have not been proven, and give a platform to demonstrators who know neither…

Whenever a president breaks the tradition of business-as-usual, some people think the sky is falling. But the sky is not falling. President Trump’s unbridled candor and executive approach to governing is not inconsistent with Democratic President Harry Truman’s own style:…

The loudest explosion about national Republicans’ tax reform comes from Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. It’s surprising that Gov. Malloy has any glass left in his house. It’s rather embarrassing for Connecticut, considering Gov. Malloy is the least popular Democratic…

On the morning of Dec. 13, I sat in my comfortable and warm kitchen, reading the Republican-American and enjoying my coffee. Not being overly impressed with the recent news, my eyes and mind searched for something of a “feel good”…

I encourage Connecticut residents to watch On Demand People Magazine Investigates’ episode 4 of season 2, “Connecticut Horror Story.” This chronicles the vicious and brutal murders of the Petit women in Cheshire on July 23, 2007. The perpetrators had long…

We are bewildered at the recent coverage the Republican-American afforded protesters outside the Naugatuck office of Dr. Robert Matusz (Dec. 16 story, “Borough doctor accused of sexual misconduct”). We have been acquainted with the doctor for more than 25 years,…

Oh, the irony of the Dec. 16 Connecticut Mirror article “Malloy: Time to man up,” about Gov. Dannel P. Malloy telling us what ails the state while he sat at the helm overseeing these things! Malloy’s solution is to impose…

You can call me a “tax reformer.” For the last 20 years, when I have completed Schedule A on my personal federal-income-tax-return in the weeks preceding April 15, I have said to myself, “Why doesn’t the government just eliminate Schedule…

A while ago, I listened to remarks by former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. They seem to recommend that we reject the policies of President Trump’s administration as divisive, provocative, and inconsistent with American values and principles. They…

Many patients complain that their primary-care doctors seem to have lost interest in keeping up personal relationships. It’s not that physicians don’t care. It’s because a lot of the time that they used to spend on keeping up those personal…

If you wonder what is wrong with Connecticut, here it is in a nutshell. Over the last 30 years, we have allowed state leaders to have conflicts of interest. The most blatant have been on the Democratic side. For example,…

Some folks are skeptical that fossil-fuel-derived carbon-dioxide emissions have caused most of the global warming over the last century or so. They claim that some natural cycle or other must be causing it instead. Let’s look at the timing and…

Deacon Ernest Scrivani of the Archdiocese of Hartford’s Pastoral Planning Committee would have everyone think that with time, everything will be OK, according to his Nov. 30 article in Catholic Transcript “Are we there yet?” The hope is, that if…

I read the Dec. 11 editorial “Connecticut faces a mess,” on the state’s transportation problems. The editorial hit many of the salient points, but it missed the big one: Why did the Special Transportation Fund (STF) go bust? The No….

This is in response to T.H. Martland’s Dec. 12 letter “America gives up its neutrality in Middle East.” Mr. Martland referenced President Trump declaring Jerusalem the capital of Israel. “We will experience the ramifications for possibly years into the future,”…

The news this week has me a bit confused and very angry. An investigation concluded in the February death of 17-year-old Matthew Tirado of Hartford, who died of starvation and neglect. The Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF), a…