Chris Powell

April 07, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Gov. M. Jodi Rell responded breathlessly last week to Connecticut's latest criminal atrocity, the New Britain home invasion in which one woman was abducted and murdered and another gravely injured. But the governor offered little more than impotent rage.

By CHRIS POWELL

4 minute read

July 02, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut's new state budget has a couple of telling details. The first is the destruction of the state constitutional limit on the growth of state government spending.

By CHRIS POWELL

4 minute read

May 25, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The five indignant letters from judges and bar associations published Sept. 15 in response to my Aug. 4 column ("Social Justice Doesn't Flow from the Courts") suggest that Connecticut's judges are all equally well qualified for their offices. But, of course, this cannot be. People are different.

By CHRIS POWELL

4 minute read

December 27, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

When, a few weeks ago, Gov. M. Jodi Rell nominated her final bunch of judges, including some people who had served her administration and were being rewarded, there was objection from legislative leaders and even the judiciary itself that the judges weren't needed, or at least not as much as the money to support them was needed to maintain judicial facilities, whose appropriations had been cut.

By CHRIS POWELL

4 minute read

January 30, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Hooray for the Yankee Institute for throwing a monkey wrench into the tiresome sanctimony of the advocates of bigger government, their constant whining about "two Connecticuts," one rich and one poor.

By CHRIS POWELL

5 minute read

December 05, 2005 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Education, Robert Frost remarked, is mainly a matter of hanging around until you've caught on. Having just been slapped with another class-action lawsuit claiming that its system of financing education is unconstitutional, 30 years and billions of dollars in new education spending after the last such lawsuit, Connecticut should be catching on.

By CHRIS POWELL

5 minute read