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May 3, 2013

OP-ED | No More Excuses for Sexual Assault

by Susan Bigelow | May 3, 2013 5:30am


Susan Bigelow The stories keep getting worse out of Torrington. Four different teenage boys affiliated with the Torrington High football program were charged in February and March with statutory rape. On the heels of that, some of their classmates took to social media to further humiliate the victims. And now there’s this:

Another incident surfaced in Litchfield Superior Court this week in which three other boys — two of whom were affiliated football team at the time — are charged with the 2011 gang-rape of an intoxicated 13-year-old girl. The Register Citizen reports details of the allegations unflinchingly and graphically in this harrowing read.

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OP-ED | A Woman Without A Party

by Sarah Darer Littman | May 3, 2013 5:30am

Sarah Darer Littman When my son registered to vote two years ago this month, he wanted to register unaffiliated. “Both parties are just corporate shills,” he said.

I had a hard time disagreeing with that point of view, but I talked him out of it with the same words my father told me thirty years earlier, when I was a new voter: “You should always join a party in a closed primary state so you can vote in a primary.”

My son listened to me, as I listened to Dad. So he was shocked when I told him that I’d gone to Town Hall this week and changed my registration from Democrat to Unaffliated in the final stage of my journey to disgust and disillusionment with the two party system.

“Welcome to my world,” he said.

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April 26, 2013

OP-ED | Without Better Public Transit, Gas Tax is Simply Punitive

by Susan Bigelow | April 26, 2013 8:56am

Susan Bigelow Gas taxes are going up again this July, and so once again I thought, briefly, about finding some other way to get around besides driving my car. I live and work smack in the middle of a busy, densely-populated valley stretching from Northampton to New Haven, so you would think that I would have several good transit options for getting to work. You’d be wrong.

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OP-ED | Interested In The Truth? Listen To Carstensen and Lembo

by Terry D. Cowgill | April 26, 2013 5:30am

Terry Cowgill As if we needed more evidence, yet another sobering nonpartisan report came out last week projecting a bleak economic future for the Nutmeg State.

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April 24, 2013

OP-ED | Rebalancing Long-Term Care Offers Budget Bright Spot

by Nora Duncan & Peter Gioia | April 24, 2013 8:33pm

Connecticut continues to face the fiscal strains of a slowly recovering economy and persistent unemployment. That means lawmakers in Hartford face difficult decisions and new challenges to Connecticut’s already strained safety net.

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April 20, 2013

OP-ED | Rape Cases Highlight Need for Important Conversations

by Sarah Darer Littman | April 20, 2013 5:47am

Sarah Darer Littman According to the arrest warrants, a 13-year-old girl said “no.” Not just once. Multiple times. But an 18-year-old football player had sex with her anyway.

By the law, by any normal, decent person’s standards, that’s called rape. It doesn’t matter if she snuck out of her house at 3 a.m.; it doesn’t matter if she smoked pot for the first time; it doesn’t matter if that 18-year-old football player plied her with alcohol first. She said “no.” More than once. And when a girl says “No, I don’t want to have sex,” then a man is supposed to respect that.

Otherwise, there’s a term for him: Rapist.

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April 19, 2013

OP-ED | For the Sickness of Fear and Violence, We Need a Cure

by Susan Bigelow | April 19, 2013 9:43am


Susan Bigelow I got sick on Monday, the sort of sickness where my brain drifted off into delusion as I lay groaning on the bathroom floor, and I thought, Sure, I don’t need any help, I’ll be just fine.

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April 18, 2013

OP-ED | Leadership: Separating The Men From The Senators

by Terry D. Cowgill | April 18, 2013 3:42pm

Terry Cowgill I’m a reasonable guy. I’ve tried to be patient all these weeks. But the politicians and media organizations that have been exploiting the woebegone Newtown parents have tested my limits of tolerance.

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April 12, 2013

OP-ED | 6 Ways to Score the GOP Governor Race

by Heath W. Fahle | April 12, 2013 2:51pm

Heath W. Fahle Nearly 16 months remain until Connecticut Republicans will choose their gubernatorial nominee, but the race has already started. Keep track of who is winning with this handy scorecard.

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OP-ED | Malloy Stronger than Polls Suggest

by Susan Bigelow | April 12, 2013 8:14am

Susan Bigelow A poll dropped this week suggesting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is “in trouble” for re-election next year. So what else is new?

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