Public asked to weigh in on latest Coast Guard museum designs

To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: The latest design, showing the proposed front entrance of the estimated $100 million National Coast Guard Museum planned for downtown New London waterfront, is seen in this rendering released Tuesday, July 31, 2018.

‘Little Pink House’ speaks truth to power

Coming soon to a cinema near you - you can make this happen; read on - is a bite-your-nails true-story thriller featuring heroes, villains and a history-making struggle over ... the Constitution's Takings Clause. Next Feb. 24, "Little Pink House" will win the Oscar for best picture if Hollywood's political preening contains even a scintilla of sincerity about speaking truth to power.

New London development and planning director to depart in January

New London – Tammy Daugherty, the director of the city's Office of Development and Planning and someone who has played a role in nearly every major city economic and community development initiative during her six years with the city, is leaving at the end of January. Daugherty, a licensed broker, said she plans to work for herself in the field of real estate development and project management consulting.

National health care rare and ineffective

The Aug. 31 column by David Collins − "Why are Connecticut Democrats running from paid Medicare for all?" − along with the comments and the follow-up article on Saturday concerning a hearing held by Sen. Chris Murphy in New London , frighten me because of the astounding level of ignorance exhibited by so many people. The only country in the world that has national single payer is Great Britain and it is recognized as the worst government system in Europe.

Niall Ferguson: The global network has become dangerously unstable

The president of the United States tweets that his own intelligence agencies are illegally leaking classified information to The New York Times about his campaign's communications with the Russian government, but he insists that it's all "fake news." Meanwhile, having interfered in the US presidential election via WikiLeaks and an online army of trolls and bots , the Russians send their spy ship Viktor Leonov to have a snoop at the US submarine base at New London, Conn.

Russian spy ship now off Virginia coast

The Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov is no longer off the coast of Connecticut, but has moved southward to a position northeast of Norfolk, Virginia. The vessel's presence 30 miles south of a U.S. Navy submarine base in New London, Connecticut drew international headlines this week even though U.S. officials were not concerned by the ship's operations, which are in international waters.

Coast Guard Academy sets record for female enrollment

U.S. Coast Guard swabs, center, are guided by Coast Guard cadets, left and right, as they recite phrases from the cadet handbook before swearing-in ceremonies, Monday, June 27, 2016, at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, in New London, Conn. Forty years after military service academies opened their doors to women, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy is marking the milestone Monday at its annual reporting-in day, when it welcomes a class with a record 38 percent female cadets.