Tag: The Hartford Courant
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Local Health Department Orders Connecticut Barbershop to Close after it Reopened Wednesday
SPOKESMAN: ORDER A “LEGAL DOCUMENT” by Sharon Rondeau (May 21, 2020) — As was reported Wednesday evening on Fox 61 and in The Westerly (RI) Sun, a Pawcatuck, CT barbershop which reopened on Wednesday in defiance of Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s revised order may face closure Thursday afternoon by a local health department. Pawcatuck, a…
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Report: Connecticut Inmates Receiving Insufficient Medical, Mental Health Care
CAN THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS DO BETTER THAN UCONN? by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 27, 2018) — The Hartford Courant reported Friday that medical care provided by the Connecticut Department of Correction (DOC) is under scrutiny by state legislators amid a growing number of wrongful-death lawsuits. A suit filed in federal court on Thursday alleges that…
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Is The Hartford Courant a Propaganda Machine?
EMBEDDED VIDEO STREAM HARDLY POLITICALLY BALANCED by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 28, 2017) — While this writer was reading a balanced, although arguably initially misleading, article in The Hartford Courant on Tuesday morning, a series of videos began to play without prompting featuring a single political viewpoint for more than ten minutes. Muslim, pro-refugee and anti-Trump…
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The Constitution State, Too, Votes for “Change”
“A DIFFERENT DYNAMIC” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 10, 2016) — The Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA) and WFSB Channel 3 in Hartford have reported that as a result of Tuesday’s state elections, Republicans gained seven seats in the House of Representatives and read seats in the state Senate, the latter of which brought a…
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Connecticut Supreme Court Mandates Continued Chemotherapy for 17-Year-Old Against Her Wishes
IS IT THE STATE’S DECISION OR THE FAMILY’S? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 8, 2015) — A 17-year-old girl diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma last fall will continue to receive chemotherapy treatments for the condition against her will and that of her mother, according to a unanimous decision issued directly after a hearing on Thursday by the…
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Breaking: Justina Pelletier Going Home on Wednesday!!!
“THE HAPPIEST GIRL ON THE PLANET” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 17, 2014) — A tweet from Pelletier family spokesman Rev. Patrick Mahoney on Tuesday evening at 8:47 p.m. EDT reports that Justina Pelletier, the 16-year-old who was taken into the custody of Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) 16 months ago over a medical…
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District Office Staffer: “He’s From Hawaii, Ma’am”
ACKNOWLEDGES, THEN DENIES, REPORTED OBAMA FORGERIES by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 12, 2014) — In a follow-up telephone call to an off-the-record, in-person conversation with a district office staffer more than one month ago, this writer contacted the Enfield, CT district office of Rep. Joseph Courtney on Wednesday morning. The face-to-face meeting conducted last month was…
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Connecticut Secretary of State Criticized for Same Action as Her Predecessor
“PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED…I AM A DEMOCRAT” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 15, 2013) — Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill has issued an official press release announcing the discontinuance of an e-newsletter sent to many Democrat political activists which appeared to some to resemble a mailing performed by the office of former Secretary of…
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Report: Monday’s Second Amendment in Hartford Rally Drew “Thousands”
ARE MORE LAWS THE ANSWER? by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 12, 2013) — The National Rifle Association (NRA), the National Shooting Sports Foundation and other groups attended a rally in Hartford, CT on Monday opposing proposed changes to the state’s firearms laws following the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, 2012. While the…
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Local Authorities Stand Up to Obama’s Gun Control Agenda
IS THIS THE WATERSHED MOMENT? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 27, 2013) — County commissioners in Franklin County, IN unanimously passed an ordinance which nullifies any federal legislation limiting citizens’ Second Amendment rights to own a firearm. In an interview, Franklin County Sheriff Ken Murphy said that he would uphold his oath to the U.S. Constitution…
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Connecticut Attorney General “Defends” Claim Made by Parents of Sandy Hook Survivor
BUT WHAT DID HE REALLY SAY? by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 1, 2013) — On Monday, in response to a claim filed last week asking for permission to sue the state of Connecticut in connection with the attack on the Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14, Attorney General George Jepsen announced that “the Office of…
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Parents of Survivor of Sandy Hook Classroom Massacre Sue State for $1,000,000
CITING “FAILURE TO PROTECT“ by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 29, 2012) — The parents of a six-year-old who survived an onslaught of bullets on December 14 at the Sandy Hook Elementary School by pretending to be dead have hired an attorney who has asked the state of Connecticut for permission to sue it for $1,000,000. The…