David Collins

Nov 7, 2024 | yahoo.com | David Collins |New London

Nov. 7—At first glance, Connecticut Democrats, while discouraged about the stunning Donald Trump national win Tuesday, might take some solace from the election returns here. U.S. Senator Chris Murphy cruised to an easy victory, and Democrats held all their House seats. In eastern Connecticut, Joe Courtney repeated a 2022 resounding win against the same Republican challenger, Mike France, who this year had tied his campaign pretty directly to what turned out to be the 2024 Trump juggernaut.

Nov 7, 2024 | theday.com | David Collins

At first glance, Connecticut Democrats, while discouraged about the stunning Donald Trump national win Tuesday, might take some solace from the election returns here. U.S. Chris Murphy cruised to an easy victory, and Democrats held all their House seats. In eastern Connecticut, Joe Courtney repeated a 2022 resounding win against the same Republican challenger, Mike France, who this year had tied his campaign pretty directly to what turned out to be the 2024 Trump juggernaut. State Rep.

Nov 5, 2024 | theday.com | David Collins

State Senator Heather Somers, R-18th District, in the red sweater, tries to avoid having a photo taken of her outside the Sterling polls on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (David Collins/The Day). Buy Photo ReprintsA Hartford Democrat shared with me a screenshot of a recent Facebook posting by Stonington Republicans, likening the coming presidential election to awaiting a pregnancy test. “We either get a healthy baby boy or the daughter of Satan,” said the Facebook posting by the Stonington GOP. Ouch.

Oct 31, 2024 | theday.com | David Collins

When I caught up with Stonington First Selectwoman Danielle Chesebrough, to ask about her proposal for giving towns a cut of state sales taxes, she noted at the outset that it’s not a new idea. Indeed, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities has been lobbying for a long while for cities and towns to get a bigger share of the state’s sales tax haul. Town leaders’ tongues hang out at the prospect of a 1 percent sales tax of their own, whenever it’s dangled.

Oct 30, 2024 | theday.com | David Collins

I was reminded recently to rewatch the chilling scene from the 1972 movie “Cabaret,” in which a young man stands up in a rural beer garden in pre-World War II Germany, singing “Tomorrow Belongs to Me.” As the others at the tavern, young and old, begin to join in with the rousing music, taking to their feet, voices rising, the camera pans the crowd, across civilians and young men in uniforms, swastikas on their arms, until the one leading the singing finally raises an arm in salute, which of...