Whatever Happened to Good News?

In May, Connecticut?s Labor Force Grew. The new casino: The MGM Grand at Foxwoods began hiring for June?s grand opening and the bottom did not fall out of the home sales market as it has in other parts of the country. Robert DeNiro was in Connecticut filming movies twice this year, Indiana Jones spent a week at Yale, Wes Craven stalked the Litchfield Hills last month and the majority of Greenwich?s hedge funds have not gone under as pundits predicted. Still, check out almost any newspaper, blog, podcast or nightly news program and it?s 1974 or 1989 all over again.

Fuel prices have risen nationwide. In Connecticut, a city ruled by cars and lacking in quality mass transport high fuel prices are a true burden and the state is affected by fallout from the sub prime mortgage debacle. Even Senator Chris Dodd(D) who is stumping for a $300 billion mortgage bailout bill is under fire for securing loans from Countrywide, one of the bigges... Read more.»