David Collins

Until recently, it seemed to me the most prominent Trumper in Connecticut was Linda McMahon of professional wrestling fame, the twice-failed U.S. senatorial candidate and ex-member of former President...

I think it’s pretty clear that Connecticut Republicans have managed to find a topic they can use successfully against Democrats this fall: a staggering increase in electric rates. You can tell they’ve...

You don’t have to stray very far from the facts to understand that Donald Trump is like no other candidate who has ever run for the American  presidency. And I mean that in the worst way. He is, after...

It’s hard for me to forget my first newspaper editor, a gruff old guy presiding over a bustling city newsroom ― often with a lit cigar ― when he made it clear that the use of the first person and than...

As news broke Thursday of the arrest of Gov. Ned Lamont’s former deputy budget chief on a panoply of corruption charges, I couldn’t help but wonder how the governor could have been so clueless about ...

It’s been close to 84 years since New London cut the ribbon on a magnificent public works project, a remake of the city’s hurricane-devastated shoreline into a remarkable public park. Ocean Beach Park...

I am sure all my friends in the Connecticut Republican Party join me in hoping that former President Donald Trump will take the stand in his criminal trial underway in New York. After all, we all know...

I tend to nod off a bit ― not unlike, I suppose, Donald Trump in his criminal trial ― when people start talking about the creation of a government task force charged with studying something. Maybe it...

I have long known the story of Merle Smith Jr. becoming the first Black cadet to graduate from the Coast Guard Academy in 1966. It was the beginning of a storied career that made him the first Black c...

Let’s be honest: New London, the little Connecticut city I love, has a downtown blight problem it hasn’t been able to lick. It’s true that some encouraging recent developments, including many new apar...