Swick Speak

I can still remember picking up my first issue of the National Review when I was a Freshman in High School. I was a member of the Political...

It seems to me that the Democratic Party whether on a National or State level enjoys raising, creating, adding taxes. Taxes of all shapes a...

Does Connecticut really have two parties? Or are we governed by a Democratic/Republican Unified Party? Are all members of the General Assemb...

Hey do you have an extra $9 trillion dollars plus? Can I use it? If you are the Federal Government that is how much the National Debt is. ...

Who am I going to vote for in the primary? Mitt Romney. I have spent a great deal of time debating who will I vote for in the upcoming Rep...

2008 is another election year. This year we will once again elect our State Legislature. We will continue to hear from now to election day...

Brother Can you spare me $500 billion dollars? Give or take a few billion. You see my family and I lived within our means. We did not buy ...

Low and behold waiting for me in my mailbox this afternoon was Wallingford's independent (not Democrat any more) Mayoral candidate...

I am still confused why our illustrious Senator Dodd is running for the Presidency. I know somehow he has gotten elected for many years as...

I love Wallingford. It is a community that its citizens are proud of. It is a town that many people want to move to because of its strong ...

As an instructor of Economics for 25 years now, many students of mine have asked me to comment on the current problems faced in the Sub Prim...

For many years now I have discussed in my economics classes-where is the tax money going in our state to fund and repair our road and highwa...

Ethics violations, corruption, greed, graft, waste, over taxation. I feel these words describe the Connecticut State Legislature. As evidenc...

With the two proposals for a new state budget, I as a taxpayer am wondering are both parties for real? If you have a constitutional amendme...

Pork, pork and more pork. I see things have not changed in Congress. Under the “New” Democratic leadership, a mockery has made of the curr...

Connecticut's State Department of Public Utility Control truly amazes me. Whatever any utility wants in the state gets from this suppos...

I thought Iraq was a free country? I guess I am mistaken after looking at new commission report which was developed by a group of experts(?...

I am still confused by the current Connecticut Senate election. I really need to know who Ned Lamont is. No, I am not going to vote for hi...

Now everything makes sense to me. I need top correct my last blog regarding Connecticut's Secret Gross Earnings tax levied on all fuel ...

Again higher gas prices-I just read a nationwide survey that we have the third highest average prices for gasoline in the country. We are on...