Make Blue Red

We all know the world is getting crazier, angrier, and less funny. But that is what people getting older think and as someone getting older, I am as guilty as anyone in believing the universe is...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2024/04/joe-lieberman-more-than-mensch.html

Patricia Longo Patty Longo loved to banter. She loved to smoke and banter. She loved to be around people who used their brains and had spines - who loved to banter.   Right now, Patty is ...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2023/11/patty-longo-was-light.html

During a recent hospital stay in New Haven, when his mood was dour and unresponsive, Lou DeLuca stirred. He awoke and ran his hand over his face and instinctively knew something was amiss. Al...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2023/08/deluca-lion-passed-this-way.html

Dan Camiliere was not going to go quietly when it came to giving up his car. But, after turning 100 last year, he gave in to his children and handed over the keys. But he wasn’t going to compl...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2023/02/dan-camilliere-century-of-light.html

Parents in Connecticut are fighting back against the woke education commissars, and it should encourage anyone who believes in free speech and the sovereign rights of families.  COVID and the...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2022/09/fighting-magic-circle.html

Leora Levy ran a disciplined, focused campaign and won a convincing primary victory to represent Republicans against Richard Blumenthal, who has hovered in dangerously low approval ratings despi...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2022/08/leora-levy-won-now-get-to-it.html

Mark Scheinberg is getting the shaft. All that is missing is a frog march down to the courthouse, a quick show trial and one-way ticket to the gulag. Scheinberg is the president of Goodwin Univer...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2022/07/mark-scheinberg-bowed-but-just-getting.html

  If you never wandered through Torrington during the ‘80s and ‘90s, then you missed one of the most truly amazing people to hold elected office. Her name was Delia “Dee” Rose Donne, ...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2022/05/dee-donne-torrington-comet.html

The FBI doesn't know how bad it has it. After demonstrating its heavy-footed approach to entrap a sitting President, allowing a college gymnastic coach to sexual abuse scores of athletes desp...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2021/10/just-minutes-maam.html

Sometimes an inflection point erupts in the smallest of places. Guilford might be such a locale in the battle over inserting Critical Race Theory into all curriculum in our public school system...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-good-republicans.html

Judging by the floor action witnessed Sunday during a shopping trip to the neighborhood Marshalls & Home Goods, Connecticut is clearly ready to resume active duty in normal life. You can learn ...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2021/03/we-are-marshalls.html

There are many Dick Foley stories and then there are the Dick Foley stories that we take to the grave. Dick would expect as much and probably smirk knowing people would be thinking about him ...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2021/01/dick-foley-having-ball-at-our-expense.html

WALLY BARNES BEING HONORED IN BRISTOL IN 2018 Wallace "Wally" Barnes never let fame, wealth or power blur how he treated other people. He was an elegant, intelligent man who helped build a ...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2020/12/wally-barnes-everyman-from-bristol.html

The return of public school students to a mixture of in-class and remote learning seems doom to fail before the first school bus wheels into sight of anxious parents and students. It won’t be...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-return-of-public-school-students-to.html

The state Department of Education (SDE) announced last week that Governor Ned Lamont will soon have a proposal to open our public and non-public schools this August.  What he decides will have...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2020/06/opening-schools-is-easy-unless-there-is.html

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― GEORGE ORWELL, 1984 This is where we are in the course of public debate - there is none. The...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2020/06/cancel-culture-via-forklift.html

It's 9:05 a.m. Thursday in the Costco parking lot in New Britain. My wife Suzan and I were given the inside scoop that the mega store would be opening early - at 9:15 a.m.- before the announced ...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2020/03/costco-diary-here-come-hordes.html

Timothy Moynihan of East Hartford Tim Moynihan made it look easy. Throughout his colorful, successful life in politics and in business, Tim Moynihan kept a balance that most people mostly dr...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2020/03/tm-moynihan-graceful-generous-and.html

McCain, Davol at 98 Fundraiser for Kevin O'Connor Another New Hampshire primary and it's nice not to have to sweat the outcome or rather, thaw out over the outcome. Since 1996, I spent a goo...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2020/02/new-hampshire-ben-and-one-helluva-night.html

George Jepsen - MVP (News-Times) If there were an award for Most Valuable Politician in Connecticut in 2018, Attorney General George Jepsen would win the award going away. During the cours...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2018/12/jepsen-connecticut-democrats-mvp.html

George Bush during 1992 stop in Ansonia (Greenwich Times) George Herbert Walker Bush always struggled to shed his aristocratic bearing and he largely did simply being living a gracious, humb...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2018/12/george-bush-shooting-breeze-on-water.html

Congresswoman-Elect Hayes (Waterbury Republican) Rarely has so much been made of so little a flip-flop that we all knew was coming – whether Democrat Congresswoman-elect Johanna Hayes woul...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-flip-whose-flop-means-nothing.html

John McCain, 2008 in Fairfield (Hearst) John McCain was pissed, really pissed and he let everyone know it. He had just been trundled into a van after appearing at a campaign fundraiser: a bo...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2018/08/midnight-run-with-john-mccain.html

Bob Stefanowski  Often, we in politics miss the obvious and the 2018 primary results bear that out.  We political types are always last in on the joke and the joke was on us. Bob Stefanow...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2018/08/bob-stefanowski-had-message.html

GOP candidates at recent debate In 48 hours, about 300,000 Republican and Democrat voters will cull the herd of political candidates who have collectively spent over $16 million to compete f...

http://makebluered.blogspot.com/2018/08/taking-one-final-look-before-fun-starts.html