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VOLUME CLXXXVI CCOOUURRAANNTT..CCOOMM MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 2022
2022 ELECTION: U.S. SENATE RACE
Klarides to run for US Senate
Former House Republican leader will try to “Is he just going to get a pass?” Former
Klarides asked television host House
unseat Blumenthal, won’t run for governor
Dennis House of Blumenthal. “He GOP leader
needs to explain to people why he Themis
By Christopher Keating Klarides avoided interviews in votes with Democrats almost 100% Klarides
Hartford Courant recent days so that she could make of the time. ... You see him outside announced
her announcement exclusively on throwing rocks at the building Sunday that
HARTFORD — In a surprising a television news show with a large — being partisan and political. ... she plans to
turnaround, former House Repub- audience of political insiders. What I see is not enough compro- challenge
lican leader Themis Klarides Klarides said she changed her mise.” Richard
dropped out of the race for gover- mind after constantly hearing In a deep blue state, Republi- Blumenthal
nor Sunday and is instead running from voters about the gridlock cans have not won the Senate race for his U.S.
for the U.S. Senate. and dysfunction in Washington since Lowell P. Weicker Jr. in 1982 Senate seat
Both Republicans and Demo- that she said U.S. Sen. Richard as the seat has been dominated by in November.
crats have been discussing the Blumenthal has not done enough COURANT
possibility for the past week, but to improve. Turn to Klarides, Page 2 FILE PHOTO
CORONAVIRUS
IN CONNECTICUT
As surge
recedes,
what’s
next?
Experts are optimistic
— with some caveats
By Alex Putterman
Hartford Courant
For at least the third time in the
past two years, Connecticut finds
itself moving past a devastating
COVID-19 surge and hoping
its coronavirus nightmare may
finally be reaching an end.
But just like the previous two
times, experts say there’s cause
for encouragement — and also
reasons to hold off on the victory
parade.
First, the good news: The state’s
test positivity rate has dipped
Conny the Whale is a life-size replica of a sperm whale, the state animal of Connecticut. The 60-foot sculpture has been at the Children’s dramatically in recent weeks, and
Museum in West Hartford for nearly half a century. MARK MIRKO/HARTFORD COURANT its rate of new cases is the lowest
it has been in more than a month.
The number of patients hospital-
Movement afloat ized with COVID-19 in Connecti-
cut has declined steadily as well,
easing the burden on health care
institutions.
Experts say there’s no obvious
reason those promising trends
won’t continue in the near future.
to save the whale
Pedro Mendes, a computational
biologist at UConn Health, said
Friday that his models project
Connecticut will be down to
530 COVID-19 hospitalizations
by Feb. 19 — less than half the
current total.
Conny, a fixture at West Hartford’s Children’s Museum, faces unclear future “We’re past the peak, so that’s
really good news,” Dr. Scott
Roberts, associate medical direc-
By Kenneth R. Gosselin | Hartford Courant ferro-cement — has achieved iconic status in West Hartford tor for infection prevention at
F since it was dedicated in 1976, the handiwork of volunteers and Yale New Haven Hospital, said.
or nearly a half century, Conny the Whale all donated materials. “I think there’s reason to be opti-
has been moored peacefully at the Children’s The connection is so strong that an online petition drive in mistic looking ahead.”
Museum in West Hartford, delighting genera- support of Conny and the museum has gathered more than Now the question is, what
tions of children who climbed in and around the 1,000 signatures. “Save Conny the Whale” signs have popped comes next? Will recent trends
massive sculpture. up in West Hartford and Hartford’s West End. continue? Will summer in
But Conny is now headed out into uncharted Erin Sheehan, who lives in Hartford’s West End, remembers Connecticut be free of COVID-
waters. taking her son Kieran, now 12, to the museum almost daily when 19? Are further surges on the
With the upcoming sale of the museum property for rede- he was young. Sheehan is among those who have displayed the way? What role might a new vari-
velopment and the museum’s move to another location, Conny save Conny signs at their homes. ant play?
— originally conceived as a face for the “Save the Whale” move- “The whale is right out front,” Sheehan said. “He ran up and Experts note that Connecticut
ment rooted in the 1960s and 1970s and a life-size model of the down the whale, listened to his voice echo through the whale’s continues to see high levels of
sperm whale, the state animal — now needs to find a new home.
Conny — measuring 60 feet and weighing 20 tons, mostly of Turn to Conny, Page 3 Turn to COVID-19, Page 3
West Hartford
goes Jamaican
‘Betting and betting and betting’
The sound of reggae and the
smell of jerk chicken filled the
air in West Hartford Center last
week as the newest location of
Expanded gambling yields millions for casinos The Russell Jamaican restaurant
soft-opened at 39 S. Main St.
and state, but deeper debt for some gamblers CONNECTICUT, PAGE 1
By Stephen Singer to bet even more. And finding help Opinion ..........................News, 7
Hartford Courant may be elusive as counselors are Obituaries ....................News, 9
overwhelmed while financial aid Lottery ...........................News, 2
Bettors dropped more than $2 falls short, advocates say. Classified ......................News, 8
billion late last year as Connecti- “They’re losing everything in a Puzzles .......Connecticut, 7-8
cut launched its long-awaited day because of the speed of online Comics .......Connecticut, 6-7
legalized sports betting and gambling,” said Diana Goode, exec-
online gambling, generating tens utive director of the Connecticut
of millions of dollars for the state, Council on Problem Gambling.
the two tribal-owned casinos and “They’re betting and betting and
Connecticut Lottery Corp. betting.”
But for some gamblers who too State lawmakers recently
easily take on debt with gambling reviewed how expanded gambling
now available on laptops, tablets is working. The General Assem-
A bettor wagers at a kiosk at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket at and phones, extensive advertising
the launch of sports betting in Connecticut on Sept. 30. SUSAN HAIGH/AP promoting gambling was a trigger Turn to Gambling, Page 3
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FROM PAGE ONE
Klarides operative Matthew J. Hennessy
of Hartford said he expects that
from Page 1 Trump, who has clashed with
Blumenthal in the past, could
major Democratic leaders such as surface in the race that Hennessy
Chris Dodd, Joe Lieberman, Chris said Klarides is “definitely going to
Murphy and Blumenthal. lose” in November.
“My brand of Republicanism is “Trump would put some of his
what Connecticut wants,” Klarides support behind Themis to raise
said. money across the country — just to
When asked about former Presi- mess with Blumenthal,” Hennessy
dent Donald Trump, Klarides said, said. “Trump can’t help himself to
“My focus is completely Connecti- take a shot at Blumenthal.”
cut.” At the same time, Klarides could
With Republican Bob find herself on the Fox News Chan-
Stefanowski saying that he will nel and other conservative outlets
spend $10 million to battle against because Republicans are no fans
Gov. Ned Lamont, some political of the Democratic incumbent who
insiders had said that the high serves on the judiciary committee
total might deter Klarides from the and often appears on national tele-
governor’s race. vision.
But Klarides, 56, said in a “If she’s taking shots at Blumen-
text message that she was not thal, she’ll get invited on Tucker
concerned about the size of Carlson on Fox — probably more
Stefanowski’s campaign war chest. than a few times,” Hennessy
Instead, she will now be involved in predicted. “She wouldn’t be on
a big-money race against Blumen- Fox if she was running against
thal, one of the state’s best-known Stefanowski.”
politicians for the past 30 years. Politics is a family tradition for
After raising money at a steady Klarides. In 2017, she and her sister,
pace, Blumenthal had a daunting Former House Republican leader Themis Klarides is now running for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Richard Nicole, became the first two sisters
$6.9 million cash on hand as of the Blumenthal. Here, she hugs Gov. Ned Lamont before the State of the State Address in 2020. to serve simultaneously in the
most recent public filing reports. MARK MIRKO/HARTFORD COURANT legislature in Connecticut history.
The entrance of Klarides imme- It was Themis who first entered
diately gave Republicans a top-tier Cafero said. “Linda had money, but by at least 50 percentage points outlook,” a supporter said. “None public service when she ran for the
candidate against Blumenthal, a Themis has, most importantly, the each time. of the calls she’s received have legislature in 1998. As the House
Democrat who was facing three experience. She knows how to deal Lumaj said strongly Sunday that been contingent on someone else Republican leader, she became
lesser-known Republican candi- with the press, with constituents. he’s staying in the race — which running or not running for the the highest-ranking woman in the
dates who have never held major She knows town committees. She could lead to a battle at the state Republican nomination. She’s legislature and one of the top poli-
offices. knows delegates. She knows all party convention in May. Lumaj been blown away by the offering ticians in the state.
Republican supporters were those things. She can talk the talk. pushed his case to the convention of support and is seriously consid- “My mother and all the Klarides
energized by an outspoken, hard- She has walked the walk. in 2018 in the battle for governor, ering entering the race.” women were just strong, indepen-
charging woman with 22 years “He’s not going to know how to but he failed to receive enough With the party convention less dent women,” Nicole Klarides-Dit-
of experience in the state legisla- handle her. Let me put it this way: support from delegates to force a than four months away on May ria recalled. “My mother always
ture, including six years as House He never had an opponent like primary. 7, Republicans are far behind said to us, as far back as I can
Republican leader. Known as a Themis Klarides.” “Now that Themis Klarides has Blumenthal in the fundraising race. remember, that ‘You can do what-
collaborator who held her caucus Blumenthal, who turns 76 in finished her $500,000 electoral Blumenthal has been fundraising ever you want. You don’t need
together, Klarides also had a February, declined to comment shopping spree, I welcome her to online on a steady basis for months someone to hold you back and tell
no-nonsense style that included when asked about Klarides. the fight to end Dick Blumenthal’s as Republicans have been work- you you can’t do it. Whatever it
blunt criticisms of Lamont at times. “My focus is on doing my job career in Washington,” Lumaj said. ing behind the scenes to see who is you want to do, we will always
“She’s a unique individual,” said and working for the people of “But I also know that Connecticut would challenge the incumbent. support you. We will be there by
former House Republican leader Connecticut,” Blumenthal said in Republicans will see through this Besides a large campaign war your side, and you can do it.’ ”
Lawrence Cafero of Norwalk. “She an interview. “There will be plenty blatant political gamesmanship. I chest, Blumenthal has several Through the years, Themis often
would be a phenomenal senator. of time for politics later in the year.” know that I am the conservative advantages, including high name encouraged her younger sister to
She calls it like she sees it. You Klarides has already spent fighter that Connecticut Republi- recognition and approval ratings enter public life, but the moves
know where she stands. That’s for nearly $400,000 of her own money cans need to take this fight on.” in a blue state where he has already were not immediate. The sisters
sure. Very common-sense, very as she explored the governor’s race Another potential candidate is won two races for U.S. Senate, five are so close that they talk almost
direct, take-charge type of person.” before switching to the Senate Greenwich resident Leora Levy, races for state attorney general and every day — and often multiple
Blumenthal defeated Linda race. a major fundraiser and Republi- three for state legislature earlier in times a day by telephone or text.
McMahon and her $50 million The other Republicans who can National Committee member his career. They served together for four
campaign war chest in 2010, but have been talking about challeng- who was nominated as ambassa- The switch in plans by Klarides years until Klarides decided in
Cafero said that Klarides brings a ing Blumenthal include immigra- dor to Chile by Trump but was was first disclosed by Hartford 2020 not to seek reelection to
different skillset with 22 years of tion attorney Peter Lumaj, who not confirmed by the time Trump Courant columnist Kevin Rennie, her legislative seat. At that time,
deep knowledge of Connecticut has lost three races for statewide left office. A source close to Levy a former state senator, in his blog she left the door open for higher
government and political connec- office; Simsbury landscaper and said she is focusing on the battle and column. office. Many supporters thought
tions across the state. Trump supporter Robert Hyde, against Blumenthal and not against While some Republicans are she would end up running against
“Dick Blumenthal has never and Norwalk resident John Flynn, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes in the 4th excited about Klarides’s chances, Lamont, but now her opponent
run against a person who has the a former portfolio manager who Congressional district. Democrats say Blumenthal has too will be Blumenthal.
knowledge and the breadth of holds an MBA in finance and lost Her supporters “like that she’s much campaign money and too
experience in government and two races for the state House of a conservative with a national much popularity in polls. Christopher Keating can be
campaigning as Themis does,” Representatives in 2018 and 2020 network and a national policy Longtime Democratic political reached at [email protected].
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FROM PAGE ONE
Gambling the partners of the casinos and the is that bridge ... and without the
Police: 16-year-old shot in
Lottery — FanDuel, which works funding to be able to market that
from Page 1 with Mohegan Sun, DraftKings, helpline, promote that helpline,
which is Foxwoods’ partner, and make sure that everyone knows Hartford in critical condition
bly’s Public Safety and Security Rush Street Interactive that partners there is a helpline there’s a real
Committee met with Goode, the with the Lottery — have saturated breakdown in the system. And that
Lottery Corp., executives of the TV with advertisements, including funding has normally come from Staff report The victim was taken to an
Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods “full-length informercials.” the casinos.” area hospital for treatment and
Resort casinos, their betting part- “It’s really annoying to people in The Council on Problem A 16-year-old male is in criti- was listed in critical condition,
ners and Consumer Protection recovery,” he said. Gambling, with a budget of cal condition after he was shot Boisvert said.
Commissioner Michelle Seagull. One client relapsed and took to $800,000, needs at least two more Sunday on Collins Street in The Hartford Police Major
gambling on his phone, before he staff members to add to three now Hartford, police said. Crimes and Crime Scene Divi-
Timing once again halted his habit, Matos working for the organization, Goode Police went to the 100 block sion responded and assumed
said. said. One would manage the help line of Collins Street just before 5 the investigation, Boisvert said.
From early October when sports In response, Richard Schwartz, and conduct outreach, and another p.m. after receiving a ShotSpot- Anyone with any informa-
betting and online gambling were chief executive officer of Rush would train business owners to spot ter activation and found the tion regarding the case is asked
launched to Dec. 31, gamblers Street Interactive, said responsible embezzling and other warning signs victim, Lt. Aaron Boisvert said to call the HPD Tip Line at
spent $2.2 billion on bets. gaming is a priority in its business of problem gambling. in an email. 860-722-TIPS (8477)
Winnings accounted for nearly strategy “as we believe it is criti- The state Department of Mental
$2.1 billion, with 85% from online cal to the long-term success of our Health and Addiction Services said
casino gambling, according to company and the gaming industry.” the number of problem gamblers
the Connecticut Department of DraftKings and FanDuel did not seeking treatment for themselves COVID-19 shifts from its pandemic stage
Consumer Protection. immediately respond to emails or someone else did not change to an endemic stage, meaning it
Foxwoods Resort Casino took in seeking comment. once online gambling and sports from Page 1 remains present but at levels that
$31.7 million in online gambling and The General Assembly and Gov. betting began. Treatment includes can be more easily controlled.
sports betting revenue, and Mohe- Ned Lamont enacted gambling individual, group, peer recovery COVID-19 cases and hospitaliza- “When we’re thinking about
gan Sun posted revenue of $25.3 legislation last year after numer- support, medication and budget tions and caution against easing ‘endemic,’ we’re not thinking
million. Sports betting revenue for ous failed attempts. The governor counseling. precautions too soon. They also about eradication. We’re think-
the Lottery was $1.3 million. and the two casinos had to nego- In July, August and Septem- warn that a new strain could ing about something that is
Rodney Butler, chairman of tiate a deal that kept intact their ber, 544 clients sought help. That disrupt all progress at any time, predictable and more manage-
the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal compact dating to the early 1990s barely changed, increasing to 546 just as delta and omicron have able,” Banach said.
Nation, which owns and operates giving the Mashantucket Pequots in the following three months after done previously. “For instance, with the flu, we
Foxwoods, said the casino had an and Mohegans exclusive betting online gambling and sports betting “The obvious question people know that there are going to be
“incredibly successful start.” rights in exchange for a 25% state launched, the agency said. are asking is, ‘Can I make plans ... waves of flu activity, we know
He partly credited good timing. tax on slot revenue. State Sen. Cathy Osten, a Sprague for this summer?’ ” Dr. Peter generally when they’re going
“We launched during the NFL The three sides agreed to an 18% Democrat and Senate chairwoman Hotez, a Hartford native, Baylor to occur, and we can prepare
season, which is your peak sports tax for the first five years of online of the Public Safety Committee, University professor and vaccine for them accordingly and react
betting season,” Butler said. casino gambling, followed by a 20% said she wants more data backing scientist, said. “And I think the when we start to see them.”
Revenue from expanded tax rate for the next five years and a claims that demand for counseling answer is, yes you can, but be Crucially, endemic doesn’t
gambling and sports betting 13.75% tax rate on sports wagering. is rising. prepared that nature could mean harmless. Malaria and
surpassed an estimate Foxwoods State Rep. Maria Horn, a Salis- “If DMHAS is not seeing extra throw us a curveball and bring tuberculosis, for example, are
presented to lawmakers two years bury Democrat and House chair- calls, where are they going?” she us a new variant.” endemic diseases that none-
ago. The casino said then tax reve- woman of the Public Safety asked. theless cause hundreds of
nue would yield about $25 million Committee, said the success of Seagull said the Department of A COVID-free thousands of deaths each year
a year. Instead, state tax reve- Connecticut’s betting enterprise is Consumer Protection has taken worldwide. But when a disease
nue from sports betting, online important because it supports the several steps to stem problem summer? is endemic, there is less likeli-
gambling and retail gambling run casinos and Lottery. She called it a gambling. Regulations include hood of a devastating surge that
by the Lottery for the three months “central paradox.” features to recognize gamblers are Each of the past two summers, strains hospitals and necessi-
between October and Dec. 31 was “Pure success and an uptick in going too far and need help and Connecticut has experienced tates dramatic control measures.
nearly $10 million. gambling numbers is not always require gambling platforms to make dramatic drops in COVID-19 “Endemic may still mean
The casinos need the good news. a good thing,” Horn said. “And we sure patrons know the amount of transmission, permitting major seeing waves in which a substan-
They were shut for nearly three have to keep an eye on the impact time and money they spend, she said. steps toward pre-pandemic tial number of cases occur,”
months at the start of the pandemic to make sure we’re taking care of In addition, a gambler may set a normalcy for many residents. Banach said. “The key is to be
and were forced into limited oper- the other end as well.” lifetime deposit limit of $2,500. If Early last summer — before the able to predict when that is
ations when they reopened. The Goode said advocates that are it’s exceeded, a message provides delta variant caused a moderate going to happen and respond in
state, too, lost its share of slot reve- seeking to help gamblers sliding details about how to set limits or get spike — the state’s positivity rate a way that is going to decrease
nue taxed at 25%. into debt are not sharing in the on a self-exclusion list, Seagull said. fell below 0.5%, leaving as few the impact without causing the
revenue bonanza. Ray Pineault, president and as 25 patients hospitalized state- level of disruption to society that
‘An eye on the impact’ “Everyone is making money chief executive officer of Mohe- wide in early July. we’ve seen.”
except the Council on Problem gan Sun, said the casino posts This experience has led some Just as the flu kills tens of
Goode reminded lawmakers the Gambling,” she said. problem gambling information on experts to believe COVID-19 thousands of Americans — and
revenue comes with a social cost. Goode said a help line phone ATM receipts and displays help- waves are largely seasonal, hundreds of Connecticut resi-
“Behind every one of those number is inadequately advertised, line information on business cards, with the Northeast experienc- dents — most winters, COVID-
millions of dollars is a person and and funding from the casinos, at brochures, promotional direct mail, ing surges when the weather is 19 will likely cause some level of
a family that may or may not be $500,000 each, falls short of what plasma screens in the casino and in coldest and residents are spend- sickness and death even once the
able to afford that money,” she told was promised when gambling legis- Mohegan Sun video. ing time together indoors — pandemic officially ends.
lawmakers. “And I think that’s what lation was drafted last year. In addi- Mohegan Sun collects data to followed by dips in transmission “We see that surge every
we really need to focus on.” tion, self-exclusion is all-or-nothing “catch problems with problem when the weather is warmest winter with a lot of the respira-
Calls to the helpline have and the Council on Problem gambling earlier,” though the casino and people can socialize outside. tory diseases,” said Dr. Ulysses
quadrupled, though numbers are Gambling believes gamblers should is early in the process, he said. “We saw COVID really plum- Wu, chief epidemiologist at Hart-
not available and many calls are for choose which activities — online, “None of us benefit from servic- met this summer, so I don’t ford HealthCare. “We still worry
customer service rather than coun- sports betting or casino visits — ing people who have a problem see a reason that wouldn’t about everything that happens
seling, she said. they may exclude. with it,” Pineault said. happen again,” Roberts said. when [a disease] is endemic.”
Stephen Matos, a Waterbury “We have problem gamblers over “I am predicting that things Of course, Connecticut hasn’t
counselor working with prob- here. We have awesome treatment Stephen Singer can be reached will continue to improve, if not yet reached the endemic stage.
lem gamblers, said advertising by over here,” she said. “The help line at [email protected]. reach this low-level steady state For now, the pandemic contin-
of infection and hopefully only ues to smolder, one new variant
continue to get better as warmer away from igniting again.
months come about.”
Conny Dr. David Banach, hospi- The variant variable
tal epidemiologist at UConn
from Page 1 Health, noted that most respi- All optimism about the coming
ratory viruses, including many months of the pandemic come
cavernous body. We always waved other coronaviruses, recede in with a notable caveat: A new
to the whale as we drove by. It was the summer before returning strain can change Connecticut’s
part of our lives as a family.” each winter. outlook at barely a moment’s
In West Hartford, Jane Torrey “I think there’s reason to be notice. It happened last summer
said she is now bringing her grand- optimistic that we’ll see that with the delta variant and again
children to visit the museum — and low level of transmission during this winter with the omicron
Conny — the second generation of the summer months,” Banach variant.
her family to do so. said. “Based on what we know Experts say the next promi-
“We’ve spent a lot of time with about the virus spread here nent strain could be less severe
that whale,” Torrey said. “It’s a in the Northeast, there is still than omicron, potentially helping
symbol. It would be very sad if we reasonable expectation that to facilitate the endemic stage, but
couldn’t figure out some way to do the community level rates in that it could also be more severe.
something with it.” the summer will likely be low, “There’s always the outstand-
Michael Werle, the director of the Children’s Museum in West Hartford, said barring any surprises like new ing question of, ‘What’s the next
Expensive endeavor the museum would like to take Conny the Whale as the museum relocates, variants that may pop up.” variant around the corner?’ ”
but the cost to move and other issues stand in the way. MICHAEL WALSH/ Of course, summer isn’t here Roberts said.
Michael J. Werle, the museum’s COURANT COMMUNITY yet. Hotez, who has become a
executive director, said the prospect As of Thursday, Connecticut go-to national voice on COVID-
‘Save the Whale’
of having to move the museum twice, the right whale off the coast of New was still averaging more than 19 over the past two years, said
the first to a temporary location, the While Conny may now be known England is “close to extinction.” 3,7000 COVID-19 cases a day, he thinks some in the medical
cost to move and refurbish the sculp- as more of a playscape of sorts, that Whaling still exists in some more than at almost any time community are overly optimis-
ture and make sure it meets modern was not the original intention. corners of the world. But today, last year. tic about the coming months of
building codes has proved, at least so In the 1970s, a fledgling group in whales are now more at risk from “We have to be careful not the pandemic and are failing to
far, to be too much. Hartford formed the Connecticut strikes by cargo ships, ingesting to be overly optimistic,” Hotez account for the possibility of a
Werle also said it isn’t clear who Cetacean Society, concerned about plastics and getting tangled in fish- said, on a call organized by Hart- new, highly threatening vari-
actually owns the sculpture. It isn’t the plight of whales, particularly the ing gear and the climate change ford HealthCare. “Because we ant.
just the decision of the museum sperm whale, which had been hunted crisis, Kaplan said. have seen situation where it Though Hotez said he’s not
about what will happen with almost to extinction for its oil. In the years since Conny was starts to go down very quickly overly concerned about the
Conny, he said. The society — its name drawn built, some of the connection back and then people assume we’re new omicron subvariant, BA.2,
“Giving up Conny is not trivial,” from cetaceans, which include to being a symbol for saving whales out of it and then it gets stuck recently detected in Connecti-
Werle said. “Our preference is to whales, dolphins and porpoises has often been lost, Kaplan said. halfway down and plateaus for cut, he warned that more strains
bring Conny with us, but we are — was one of the first organized The museum shifted its focus a while.” could be on the way, particu-
facing a lot of challenges.” around the issue with the connec- to being more children-oriented, After two years of pandemic, larly if vaccination rates were
Werle said the fate of Conny tion that Connecticut once had a Conny evolving into a mascot and many Americans are looking for to remain low across large
has been raised with state agen- thriving whaling industry. playscape. Meanwhile the society a sign that things are OK again, segments of the global popula-
cies, including the office of arts and “You go down to the seaport — turned its attention to the world that COVID-19 is no longer an tion.
culture as well as tourism, local Mystic Seaport — much of what stage. acute concern. When can they “Mother Nature is pretty
legislators, the Connecticut Histor- you see is the whaling industry of Kaplan said Conny doesn’t stop wearing masks in public? much telling us what she has
ical Society, the city of Hartford and 100 years ago,” said David Kaplan, necessarily have to stay with the When can they safely gather in in store for us,” Hotez said. “As
the original builders of the whale, a West Hartford attorney and pres- museum and could find a home at, large groups? long as we refuse to vaccinate
the Cetacean Society International. ident of nonprofit, all-volunteer say, Mystic Seaport. In Banach’s view, that point the Global South, meaning the
Conny has become integral to Cetacean Society International, The sculpture was built on won’t arrive all at once but will world’s low and middle-in-
the museum over the years, part of the successor to the original group. pedestals, with the thought that one instead play out incrementally come countries .... she’s going
its logo and a big reason why many The group was instrumental in day Conny might have to be moved, over several months. to continue to hurl variants of
young visitors want to come to the the naming of the sperm whale as Kaplan said. “It’ll be a gradual transition. I concern at us.”
museum. the state animal in 1975. “But I think it should stay local,” don’t think it’ll be an on-and-off And so most experts aren’t
West Hartford Mayor Shari Conny — his name a shortened Kaplan said. “The movement switch,” Banach said. ready to make assurances about
Cantor said Conny is certainly an version of Connecticut — came to started here, and that’s why Conny “As rates start to get lower, the coming year. Maybe the
attraction for the town of West be built at the museum because the is here. Conny just needs a home.” people in the community will omicron wave will prove to
Hartford, but the whale is also a society held its outreach programs Sheehan, of Hartford, said she have increasing comfort with have been Connecticut’s last
regional asset. So, the solution — there. Some of the museum’s staff understands there are costs to relo- gathering in small groups, poten- and the state will have a manage-
including the crucial financing were supportive of the “Save the cating something as huge as Conny, tially without masks, and that’ll able time ahead — or maybe
of a move, which by one estimate Whale” movement, Kaplan said. but she believes there has to be a be a more gradual process,” he another variant will prolong the
is $200,000 — may have to reach Hundreds of volunteers helped creative way to raise the funds. said. pandemic even further.
beyond West Hartford and poten- build Conny, mixing cement by hand “People in this area are still in pain “I don’t know that we really
tially include public contributions, and slapping it on an armature made over losing the Hartford Whalers, Road to endemicity have a lot of evidence to know
Cantor said. of wood and chicken wire. and now we might lose Conny, too?” what the next variant of concern
“There’s an emotional attachment. “It was to be a symbol of the passive Sheehan said. “Are you really going Given the degree to which the might be,” Hotez said. “In some
It’s iconic, a visual attachment and a use of whales and all the harm that to do that to us, too? Now, are all our delta and omicron variants have ways we got lucky: Can you
real draw,” Cantor said. “We would had been done to whales,” Kaplan farm teams going to have to wear managed to evade vaccine-in- imagine if omicron … was caus-
love to have a plan, but alone, I don’t said. “The killing of whales should Conny the whale on them, in addition duced immunity, experts say it’s ing as severe illness as delta?
know if the town could do it.” stop. It was a very strong symbol for to the Whalers colors? Everything highly unlikely that the state, the As bad as things are, it could be
Werle said there may be an appe- the whale movement, and to this day, that’s gotten taken away from us?” nation or the world can stamp much worse.”
tite for donations, noting that he’s that mission is still with us.” out COVID-19 entirely.
had one verbal offer to contribute Sperm whales have come back Kenneth R. Gosselin can be reached The new best-case scenario, Alex Putterman can be reached
$50,000 toward a move. from the brink, Kaplan said, but at [email protected]. they say, is that COVID-19 at [email protected].
4 Hartford Courant | Section 1 | Monday, January 31, 2022
US to crank up pressure on Russia
Officials say Moscow tration and many Demo-
to face heat at UN cratic lawmakers argue that
imposing sanctions now
over Ukraine crisis
against Putin would remove
any deterrent to invasion.
By Jim Heintz Sen. James Risch,
and Ellen Knickmeyer R-Idaho, told CNN that he
Associated Press is “more than cautiously
optimistic” that Republicans
WASHINGTON — The and Democrats will be able
U.S. worked Sunday to ramp to resolve their differences
up diplomatic and financial over the timing of sanctions.
pressure on Russia over Russia has long resented
Ukraine, promising to put NATO’s granting of
Moscow on the defensive membership to countries
at the U.N. Security Coun- that were once part of the
cil as lawmakers on Capitol Soviet Union or were in
Hill said they were nearing its sphere of influence as
agreement on “the mother members of the Warsaw
of all sanctions.” Pact.
The American ambassa- NATO “has already come
dor to the United Nations close to Ukraine. They also
said the Security Council want to drag this coun-
will press Russia hard in a try there,” Russian Foreign
Monday session to discuss Minister Sergey Lavrov said
its massing of troops near Sunday, “although everyone
Ukraine and fears it is plan- understands that Ukraine is
ning an invasion. not ready and could make no
“Our voices are unified contribution to strengthen-
in calling for the Russians ing NATO security.”
to explain themselves,” Ukraine has sought NATO
Ambassador Linda Thom- membership for years, but
as-Greenfield said of the any prospects of joining
U.S. and the other council Protesters show their support for Ukraine on Sunday in front of Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. HANNIBAL HANSCHKE/GETTY appear far off as the coun-
members on ABC’s “This try struggles to find political
Week.” “We’re going into the given Russia’s veto power the U.S. call those demands The United States and penalties have been seen as stability and attack corrup-
room prepared to listen to and its ties with others impossible. European countries say a ineffective. tion.
them, but we’re not going to on the council, including The head of Russia’s Secu- Russian invasion would trig- Menendez, D-N.J., also Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.,
be distracted by their propa- China. But the U.S. referral rity Council, Nikolai Patru- ger heavy sanctions. raised the prospect of suggested that Ukraine’s
ganda.” of Russia’s troop buildup shev, on Sunday rejected On Sunday, the chairman imposing some punish- backing off its NATO aspi-
Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.N.’s most powerful Western warnings about an of the Senate Foreign Rela- ments preemptively, before rations could expedite a
to the U.S., Oksana Mark- body gives both sides a stage invasion. tions Committee, Sen. Bob any invasion. diplomatic solution to the
arova, warned that Russian in their fight for global opin- “At this time, they’re Menendez, said that in the The desire to hit Russia crisis.
President Vladimir Putin is ion. saying that Russia threatens event of an attack, lawmak- harder financially over its If Ukrainian President
bent on waging an “attack Russia’s massing of an esti- Ukraine — that’s completely ers want Russia to face “the moves on Ukraine has been Volodymyr Zelenskyy
on democracy,” not just on a mated 100,000 troops near ridiculous,” he was quoted as mother of all sanctions.” a rare area of bipartisan “decides that the future
single country. It’s a case that the border with Ukraine has saying by state news agency That includes actions agreement in Congress. But membership, if there’s
some senior foreign policy brought increasingly strong Tass. “We don’t want war against Russian banks Republicans and Democrats to be one in NATO for
figures have urged President warnings from the West that and we don’t need it at all.” that could severely under- have been divided over the Ukraine, and the question
Joe Biden to make, including Moscow intends to invade. Ukraine’s foreign minis- mine the Russian economy timing of any new sanctions of the Russian occupation
at the Security Council. Russia is demanding that ter, Dmytro Kuleba, coun- and increased lethal aid to package. of Ukraine are two things to
“If Ukraine will be NATO promise never to tered that on Twitter, saying: Ukraine’s military. Many GOP members put on the table, I think we
further attacked by Russia, allow Ukraine to join the “If Russian officials are seri- The sanctions under are pushing for the U.S. to may move toward a solution
of course they will not stop alliance, and to stop the ous when they say they don’t consideration would appar- impose tough penalties to this,” Durbin said on NBC.
in Ukraine,” Markarova said deployment of NATO weap- want a new war, Russia must ently be significantly stron- immediately instead of wait- Ukraine has not shown
on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” ons near Russian borders continue diplomatic engage- ger than those imposed after ing for Russia to send new signs of willingness to make
Any formal action by the and roll back its forces from ment and pull back military Russia annexed Crimea troops into Ukraine. concessions on potential
Security Council is unlikely, Eastern Europe. NATO and forces.” from Ukraine in 2014. Those The Biden adminis- alliance membership.
Chilly East Coast begins
to dig out after nor’easter
3 dead shoveling the region: fast-dropping In New York, authorities
temperatures that turned on Long Island reported
snow in NY after
snow to ice and made shov- three storm-related deaths.
storm pelts region eling for long periods poten- Suffolk County police said
tially dangerous. Subzero an elderly man fell into a
By Matt Berg, Melina temperatures hit parts of swimming pool while shov-
Delkic, Patrick Cassidy Massachusetts and Maine eling snow in Southhold
and Catherine Mcgloin early Sunday, and wind and was pronounced dead
The New York Times chills in the Worcester, after resuscitation attempts
Massachusetts, area were failed.
BOSTON — Residents as low as 16 degrees below Nassau County officials
across the East Coast started zero — so severe that they said two men aged 53 and 75
digging out in icy condi- “could cause frostbite on died in Syosset while shov-
tions Sunday after a fierce, exposed skin in as little as eling snow.
wind-packed nor’easter 30 minutes,” the weather Like most major winter
pummeled the region, service warned. storms in New England,
dumping as much as 30 More than 100,000 lost this one drew comparisons
inches of snow in some parts power at the height of the to the infamous Blizzard
of Massachusetts and snarl- storm, mostly in Massachu- of ’78, which paralyzed the
ing travel plans across the setts. The outages in Massa- region for days.
Northeast. chusetts had dropped to “I was around for the
Snowplow crews worked about 40,000 by Sunday Blizzard of ’78, and this one Brandon Winn, of Cohasset, Mass., removes snow from a sidewalk Sunday in Scituate, Mass.
to get roads, airports and afternoon, mostly on hard- was worse. The wind was Falling temperatures plunged the East Coast into a deep freeze. STEVEN SENNE/AP
neighborhoods back to hit Cape Cod. Winds gusted tremendous,” Joe Bres-
normal. as high as 83 mph on Cape cia, 72, said Sunday, tears ations Sunday, but on Twit- boro and Quincy schools in spanning the Midwest into
Heavy snowfall totals Cod. streaming down his face ter they advised people to Massachusetts. Warwick, the Northeast was expect-
were recorded in Boston No other states reported from the bitter cold as he allow for extra travel time Rhode Island, schools are ing another winter storm
— which Saturday tied its widespread outages. shoveled his sidewalk in Sunday and Monday as going remote Monday this week. Although it was
single-day snowfall record Utility Eversource said Warwick, Rhode Island. regular travel ramped up to accommodate snow unclear Sunday what path
with 23.6 inches, accord- Sunday that it had 1,700 Hundreds of flights were again. removal. the storm system would
ing to the National Weather crews working to restore canceled early Sunday, The storm had two saving Parts of 10 states were take, meteorologists at
Service — and in Stough- electricity in Massachusetts, mostly in the Boston and graces: Dry snow less capa- under blizzard warnings the Chicago office of the
ton, Massachusetts, which and customers will have New York areas, accord- ble of snapping trees and at some point: Connecti- weather service reported
received 30.9 inches. Prov- their power back on “by the ing to website FlightAware, tearing down power lines, cut, Maine, Massachusetts, that the storm could bring
idence, Rhode Island, end of the day Monday, with which tracks flight cancel- and its timing on a week- New Hampshire, New ice and snow to the Rocky
reported 18.8 inches, which most before then.” lations. end, when schools were Jersey, New York, Rhode Mountains and move north-
appeared to break the city’s “We know how challeng- La Guardia Airport and closed and few people were Island, along with much of east through Missouri, Illi-
one-day record. Areas near ing it is for our customers Kennedy International commuting. the Delmarva Peninsula in nois, the Great Lakes region
New York City received to be without power, espe- Airport in New York City However, some school Delaware, Maryland and and a part of the Eastern
nearly 2 feet of snow. cially in this frigid weather,” and Newark Liberty Inter- districts announced that Virginia. Seaboard.
As residents emerged Eversource Vice President national Airport in New classes were canceled Just as one part of the
Sunday, they found a new for Electric Operations Bill Jersey all said that they were Monday to allow for snow country was recovering Associated Press contrib-
complication in much of Ritchie said in a statement. mostly back to normal oper- removal, including Attle- from a winter storm, an area uted.
Trump dangles possibility of Jan. 6 pardons
By Jill Colvin give them pardons because officers were injured after a dark day in our history.
Associated Press they are being treated so Trump supporters stormed We should let the judicial
unfairly.” the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, process proceed.”
CONROE, Texas — The offer represents an following a “Stop the Steal” Sen. Lindsey Graham,
Former President Donald attempt by Trump to further rally by Trump near the R-S.C., rejected Trump’s
Trump is dangling the pros- minimize the most signifi- White House in which he comments as sending a
pect of pardons for support- cant attack on the seat of falsely claimed that Joe wrong message.
ers who participated in the government since the War Biden had won election For the Jan. 6 offenders, “I
deadly Jan. 6 storming of the of 1812. through massive voter fraud. hope they go to jail and get
U.S. Capitol if he returns to More than 700 people Sen. Susan Collins, the book thrown at them,
the White House. have been arrested and R-Maine, one of seven GOP because they deserve it,”
“If I run and if I win, we charged with federal crimes senators who backed an Graham told CBS’ “Face the
will treat those people from in connection with the riot, unsuccessful bid to convict Nation.”
January 6th fairly,” Trump marking the largest investi- Trump on impeachment Trump was impeached
said during a rally Saturday gation in the Justice Depart- charges for his role in stok- by the House for his role in
Former President Donald Trump takes the stage Saturday at a night in Conroe, Texas. “And ment’s history. ing the riot, told ABC’s “This inciting the insurrection but
rally in Conroe, Texas. MERIDITH KOHUT/THE NEW YORK TIMES if it requires pardons, we will More than 100 police Week” that “January 6th was acquitted by the Senate.
Hartford Courant | Section 1 | Monday, January 31, 2022 5
WORLD & NATION
NEWS BRIEFING
Storm’s toll in Europe:
At least 4 dead, floods,
damaged homes, cars
From news services hit by a billboard that was
loosened by the storm.
HELSINKI — A power- In southern Sweden,
ful winter storm swept thousands of households
through northern Europe were without electricity
over the weekend, killing at Sunday.
least four people, destroy-
ing houses and cars, closing Afghan hostage: President
bridges and causing flooding Joe Biden on Sunday called
and halting transport while for the release of U.S. Navy
leaving thousands of house- veteran Mark Frerichs,
holds without electricity. who was taken hostage in
Storm Malik was advanc- Afghanistan nearly two
ing in the Nordic region years ago.
Sunday, bringing strong Frerichs, a civil engi-
gusts of wind, and exten- neer and contractor from
sive rain and snowfall in Lombard, Illinois, was
Denmark, Finland, Norway kidnapped in January
and Sweden. 2020 from the capital of
Malik reached the Kabul. He is believed to
Nordic region and north- be in the custody of the
ern Germany late Saturday Taliban-linked Haqqani
after moving in from Britain network.
where it caused havoc with “Threatening the safety of Hundreds of people march Sunday in Northern Ireland to mark 50 years since “Bloody Sunday,” one of the deadliest days in
material damage and trans- Americans or any innocent the conflict known as The Troubles. Thirteen people were killed and 15 others wounded when British soldiers fired on civil rights
port chaos, hitting Scotland civilians is always unaccept- protesters on Jan. 30, 1972, in the city of Derry, also known as Londonderry. PAUL FAITH/GETTY-AFP
particularly hard. able, and hostage-taking is
In the U.K., a 9-year- an act of particular cruelty
old boy in Staffordshire, and cowardice,” President her death in a statement. Hesseman, who had been in Rayong province, south- largely dependent on tour-
England, and a 60-year-old Joe Biden said in a statement “In devastation and great a radio DJ in the ’60s, earned east of Bangkok, which was ists. The local fishing indus-
woman in Scotland were to mark the second anniver- sorrow, we share the pass- two Emmy nominations for shut Saturday. try was also affected by the
killed Saturday by fall- sary of the kidnapping on ing of our beloved Cheslie,” playing Johnny Fever on Some 20-50 tons of oil are pollution.
ing trees as strong winds Monday. “The Taliban must the statement said. CBS’ “WKRP in Cincinnati,” estimated to have leaked
battered northern parts of immediately release Mark Kryst, a former Division which ran for four seasons Tuesday night in the Gulf of Pakistani ambush: Gunmen
Britain. before it can expect any I athlete and North Caro- from 1978-1982. The role Thailand from an undersea killed one Christian priest
Wind gusts of more than consideration of its aspira- lina attorney, won the Miss made Hesseman a counter- hose used to load tankers at and wounded another as
100 mph were reported in tions for legitimacy. This is USA pageant in May, 2019, culture icon at a time when an offshore mooring point they were driving home
parts of Scotland, causing not negotiable.” and competed in the Miss few hippie characters made owned by the Star Petro- from Sunday Mass in Paki-
widespread disruption to The statement came as Universe pageant that year. it onto network television. leum Refining Co. stan’s northwestern city of
transport and power cuts to Afghanistan faces a thorny The University of South In the first episode, Dr. The leak was stopped Peshawar, police said.
tens of thousands of homes. humanitarian crisis follow- Carolina mourned the Johnny Fever announces within hours, the company The Rev. William Siraj,
Scottish leader Nicola ing the U.S. withdrawal in former student-athlete, call- the station’s changeover said. 75, was shot multiple times
Sturgeon warned that August. ing her “a woman of many from elevator music to rock Most of the oil slick was and died in the ambush in
another storm due to hit the Charlene Cakora, talents.” Kryst also held an ’n’ roll with a record scratch being pushed toward Koh the Gulbahar neighbor-
region may be “more severe Frerichs’ sister, issued a MBA from Wake Forest and a proclamation. Samet, a popular tourist hood, while the Rev. Naeem
for parts of Scotland” than statement saying that her University. Hesseman played a hippie island that’s just beginning Patrick was treated briefly
anticipated. family is “grateful” for in one of his first roles, on to recover from the corona- in hospital for a gunshot
In Denmark, strong winds Biden’s words. Howard Hesseman dies: “Dragnet,” in 1967. virus pandemic slump along wound to the hand, offi-
with heavy rain caused the Actor Howard Hesseman, with the rest of the country. cer Iqbal Shah said. A
temporary closure of several Miss USA 2019 dead: Ches- who played the radio disc Oil spill cleanup: Favorable Natural Resources and third priest in the car was
bridges Saturday, including lie Kryst, the 2019 winner of jockey Dr. Johnny Fever wind and sea conditions Environment Minister unharmed.
the Oeresund road and rail the Miss USA pageant and a on the sitcom “WKRP in kept an oil slick away from Varawut Silpa-archa said No one claimed respon-
bridge connecting Copenha- correspondent for the enter- Cincinnati” and the actor- beaches in eastern Thai- authorities were taking steps sibility for the attack, the
gen and the Swedish city of tainment news program turned-history teacher land on Sunday, according to prevent it from hitting the latest on Pakistan’s tiny
Malmo. “Extra,” died Sunday. She Charlie Moore on “Head of to authorities, but concerns beaches there. Christian minority that has
Danish media reported was 30. the Class,” died Saturday. He remained that the spillage Aircraft have been drop- been targeted several times
that a 78-year-old woman Police said Kryst jumped was 81. may yet strike a popular ping chemicals to disperse by militants in recent years.
died after falling in strong from a Manhattan apart- Hesseman died in Los resort island. the oil and deploying float- Militant violence has been
winds. In neighboring ment building and was Angeles due to complica- Emergency workers in ing booms to trap it so that a broader increase since the
Germany, local media pronounced dead at the tions from colon surgery, protective gear removed it can be skimmed from the Pakistani Taliban ended a
reported that a man was scene Sunday morning. his manager Robbie Kass contaminated sand from surface and removed. ceasefire with the govern-
killed Saturday after being Her family confirmed said Sunday. the Mae Ramphueng beach The beachside area is ment last month.
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WORLD & NATION
A year after coup, both sides dig in
Myanmar’s military experience fighting the
Myanmar military offer
rulers, resistance
critical support to the PDF
continue to clash militia movement, including
supplying training and some
By Grant Peck weapons, while also provid-
Associated Press ing safe havens for oppo-
sition activists and others
BANGKOK — The army fleeing the army.
takeover in Myanmar a “We never accept a coup
year ago that ousted Aung at all for whatever reason.
San Suu Kyi not only unex- The position of our organi-
pectedly aborted the coun- zation is clear,” Padoh Saw
try’s fledgling return to Taw Nee, the chief of the
democracy. It also brought Karen National Union’s
a surprising level of popular foreign affairs department,
resistance, which has blos- said. “We oppose any mili-
somed into a low-level but tary dictatorship. Therefore,
persistent insurgency. the automatic response is
Senior Gen. Min Aung that we must work with
Hlaing, the commander those who oppose the mili-
of Myanmar’s military — tary.”
known as the Tatmadaw He said his group began
— seized power on the preparing immediately
morning of Feb. 1, 2021, after the takeover to receive
arresting Suu Kyi and top people fleeing from military
members of her government persecution and noted that it
and ruling National League played a similar role in 1988
for Democracy party, which after a failed popular upris-
won a landslide election ing.
victory in November 2020. There is a quid pro quo —
The military’s use of Villagers displaced from their communities by the Myanmar military sit outside their makeshift dwellings last month by the the NUG says it will honor
deadly force to hold on to border in Mae Sot, northern Thailand. The Myanmar military seized control of the country in a coup last Feb. 1. SAKCHAI LALIT/AP the minority ethnic groups’
power has escalated conflict demands for greater auton-
with its civilian opponents analyst of Myanmar affairs Rohingya, longtime targets has already been sentenced rule has largely passed to omy when it takes power.
to the point that some consulting for the Interna- of army abuses with whom to six years’ imprisonment, the countryside, where The support of the ethnic
experts describe the coun- tional Crisis Group think members of the Burman with the prospect of many the badly outgunned local groups is seen as key to
try as being in a state of civil tank, said. majority now are making more being added. militias carry out guerrilla sustaining the resistance, the
war. “We saw in the first days common anti-military cause. But in the days after the warfare. thought being that as long as
The costs have been high, after the coup, they tried People opposed the army army’s takeover, her party’s The army’s “Four Cuts” they can engage the army, its
with some 1,500 people to adopt a sort of business- takeover because they had elected members of parlia- strategy aims to eradi- forces will be too stretched
killed by the security forces, as-usual approach,” with come to enjoy representa- ment laid the groundwork cate the militias’ threat by to finish off the PDFs.
almost 8,800 detained, an the generals denying they tive government and liberal- for sustained resistance. cutting off their access to No other factors are seen
unknown number tortured were implementing any ization after years of military Prevented by the army food, funds, information and as capable of tilting the
and disappeared, and more significant change, but only rule, said David Steinberg, a from taking their seats, they recruitment. Civilians suffer balance in favor of the mili-
than 300,000 displaced as removing Suu Kyi from senior scholar of Asian Stud- convened on their own, collateral damage as soldiers tary or the resistance.
the military razes villages to power, he said. ies at Georgetown Univer- and in April established block essential supplies, Sanctions on the ruling
root out resistance. “And of course, you know, sity. the National Unity Govern- take away suspected militia generals can make them
Other consequences that unleashed these huge Youth turned out in ment, or NUG, which stakes supporters and raze whole uncomfortable — U.S.
are also significant. Civil protests that were brutally droves to protest despite a claim to being the coun- villages. actions, especially, have
disobedience hampered crushed, which resulted in the risks, he said, because try’s legitimate administra- When the military enters caused financial distress —
transport, banking services people turning to armed they had neither families tive body and has won the a village, “they’ll burn down but Russia and China have
and government agencies, struggle.” nor careers to lose, but saw loyalty of many citizens. some houses, maybe shoot been reliable allies, espe-
slowing an economy already The army has dealt with their futures at risk. The NUG has also sought some people, take prisoners cially willing to sell arms.
reeling from the coronavirus the revolt by employing the Kept in detention by the to coordinate armed resis- and torture them — the sort The U.N. and organiza-
pandemic. The public health same brutal tactics in the military, Suu Kyi has played tance, helping organize of horrific abuses that we’re tions such as the Association
system collapsed, leaving country’s rural heartland no active part in these devel- “People’s Defense Forces,” seeing on a regular basis,” of Southeast Asian Nations
the fight against COVID- that it has long unleashed opments. or PDFs, homegrown mili- said analyst Kean. are seen as toothless at best.
19 abandoned for months. against ethnic minorities The ruling generals, who tias formed at the local and “But when the soldiers “I see the stage sort of set
Higher education stalled as in border areas, which crit- have said they will proba- neighborhood levels. The leave, they lose control of for a prolonged conflict,”
faculty and students sympa- ics have charged amount bly hold a new election by military deems the NUG and that area. They don’t have analyst Kean said. “Neither
thetic to the revolt boycotted to crimes against humanity 2023, have tied her up with the PDFs “terrorist” organi- enough manpower to main- side seems willing to back
school or were arrested. and genocide. a variety of criminal charges zations. tain control when 80% to down or sees it as in their
The military-installed Its violence has gener- widely seen as trumped-up With urban demonstra- 90% of the population is interest or a necessity to
government was not antici- ated newfound empathy for to keep her from returning tions mostly reduced to flash against them.” back down or to make
pating the level of resistance ethnic minorities such as the to political life. mobs to avoid crackdowns, Some ethnic minority concessions in any way to
that arose, Thomas Kean, an Karen, the Kachin and the The 76-year-old Suu Kyi the battle against military groups with decades of the other.”
US planning to respond after
North Korea’s test of missile
By Hyung-Jin Kim
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea
— North Korea confirmed
Monday that it test-
launched an intermedi-
ate-range ballistic missile
capable of reaching the
U.S. territory of Guam, the
North’s most significant
weapon launch in years,
as Washington plans to
respond to demonstrate it’s
committed to its allies’ secu-
rity in the region.
Parked trucks in the protest convoy line a roadway Sunday leading to Ottawa. Protesters The official Korean
gathered this weekend against COVID-19 mandates. ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS Central News Agency
said Sunday’s test of the
Ottawa police investigating Hwasong-12 missile was South Koreans watch a TV news report of a North Korean
aimed at selectively eval- missile test Sunday at a railway station in Seoul. North Korea
uating the missile being fired a missile Sunday morning. JUNG YEON-JE/GETTY-AFP
some anti-vaccine protesters produced and deployed
and verify its accuracy. It Guam. In August 2017, at the After Sunday’s launch,
said a camera installed at height of animosities with White House officials said
the missile’s warhead took the then-Trump admin- they saw the latest missile
Associated Press national hero who lost a leg who need them. an image of Earth from istration, North Korea’s test as part of an escalating
to bone cancer as a young- The convoy of truckers space, and the Academy of Strategic Forces threat- series of provocations over
OTTAWA, Ontario — ster, then set off in 1980 on and others prompted police Defense Science confirmed ened to make “an envelop- the last several months that
Police in Canada’s capital a fundraising trek across to prepare for the possibility the accuracy, security and ing fire” near Gaum with have become increasingly
said Sunday that they are Canada, was draped with of violence and warn resi- effectiveness of the opera- Hwasong-12 missiles. concerning.
investigating possible crim- a upside-down Canadian dents to avoid downtown. tion of the weapons system. In 2017, North Korea The Biden administra-
inal charges after anti-vac- flag with a sign that said A nearby mall and liquor North Korea said the also test-fired intercon- tion plans to respond to
cine protesters urinated on “mandate freedom.” stores closed early Satur- missile was launched tinental ballistic missiles the latest missile test in
the National War Memo- Prime Minister Justin day and remained closed toward the waters off its called Hwasong-14 and the coming days with an
rial, danced on the Tomb of Trudeau retweeted a state- Sunday. east coast and on a high Hwasong-15 that experts unspecified move meant
the Unknown Soldier and ment from The Terry Fox The demonstration was angle to prevent it from say demonstrated their to demonstrate to the
used the statue of Canadian Foundation that said “Terry initially aimed at denounc- overflying other countries. potential capacity to reach North that it is commit-
hero Terry Fox to display an believed in science and gave ing vaccine mandates for The missile flew about the mainland U.S. ted to allies’ security in the
anti-vaccine statement. his life to help others.” truck drivers crossing the 500 miles and reached In recent months, North region, according to a senior
Thousands of protest- Canada has one of the Canada-U.S. border, but an altitude of 1,242 miles Korea has launched a vari- administration official who
ers gathered in Ottawa on highest vaccination rates in the movement has morphed before landing in the waters ety of weapons systems and briefed reporters on the
Saturday to protest vaccine the world. into a protest against a vari- between the Korean Penin- threatened to lift a four- condition of anonymity.
mandates, masks and lock- Trudeau has said Canadi- ety of COVID-19 restric- sula and Japan, according to year moratorium on more The official said the
downs. Some traveled in ans are not represented by tions and Trudeau’s South Korean and Japanese serious weapons tests such administration viewed
truck convoys and parked this “very troubling, small government. assessments. as nuclear explosions and Sunday’s missile test as the
on the streets around Parlia- but very vocal minority Sitting in his truck, Scott The reported flight ICBM launches. Sunday’s latest in a series of provo-
ment Hill, blocking traffic. of Canadians who are Ocelak said he planned to details make it the most launch was the North’s cations to try to win sanc-
Many remained Sunday. lashing out at science, at stay until Tuesday at the powerful missile North seventh round of missile tions relief from the U.S.
Police in Ottawa said government, at society, at latest. Korea tested since 2017, launches in January. The Biden administration
officers are also investigat- mandates and public health “Everyone’s united and when the country launched Some experts say the again called on North Korea
ing threatening behavior to advice.” we just needed a spark, Hwasong-12 and longer- boosted testing activity to return to talks but made
police and others. Deirdre Freiheit, pres- and this is the spark that range missiles in a torrid shows how North Korean clear it doesn’t see the sort
“Several criminal inves- ident of the Shepherds we needed,” Ocelak said. run of weapons firings to leader Kim Jong Un is of leader-to-leader summits
tigations are underway in of Good Hope, who run a “We’re all on board, and acquire an ability to launch determined to modern- Donald Trump held with
relation (to) the desecration soup kitchen for the home- we’re all here together. It’s nuclear strikes on U.S. mili- ize his weapons arsenals Kim as constructive at this
of the National War Memo- less in Ottawa, said several end all mandates for every- tary bases in North Asia and despite pandemic-related time.
rial/Terry Fox statue,” protesters showed up at the body.” the Pacific and even the economic hardships and South Korean and
Ottawa police said. soup kitchen Saturday and A new rule took effect American homeland. U.S.-led international Japanese officials also
Some demonstrators verbally abused staff and Jan. 15 requiring truckers The Hwasong-12 missile sanctions. They say Kim condemned Sunday’s
parked on the grounds of volunteers while demand- entering Canada be fully is a nuclear-capable ground- also likely aims to wrest launch, which violated
the National War Memorial ing they be served. She said immunized against the to-ground weapon, whose concessions from the U.N. Security Council reso-
and others carried signs and some protesters were given coronavirus. The United maximum range is 2,800 Biden administration, such lutions that bans the coun-
flags with swastikas, spark- food to defuse the situation, States has imposed the miles when it’s fired on a as sanctions relief or inter- try from testing ballistic
ing condemnation. and going forward meals same requirement on truck- standard trajectory. It’s a national recognition as a missiles and nuclear weap-
The statue of Fox, a will only be given to those ers entering that country. distance sufficient to reach nuclear power. ons.
Hartford Courant | Section 1 | Monday, January 31, 2022 7
OPINION
Helen Bennett
Executive Editor
[email protected]
COURANT.COM/OPINION
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Courant seems to be
touting Stefanowski
Amazing that the blocking of
voting rights was on Page 4 while the
announcement of Bob Stefanowski
running again was on Page 1. Of course
Stefanowski is Connecticut news, but
the blocking of Americans’ ability to
vote should be on the front page for all
to see.
Also incredible is Stefanowski’s front-
page announcement one day after The
Courant runs his “editorial” whining
about Gov. Ned Lamont while still offer-
ing no solution or plan [Opinion, Jan.
19, “State failed pandemic response”].
If readers didn’t see the announcement
coming, they haven’t been paying atten-
tion to how the media manipulates the
flow of information.
Jenny Law, Higganum
It’s residents, not
Lamont, who failed us
In Bob Stefanowski’s piece [Opin-
ion, Jan. 19, “State failed pandemic
response”], he writes that Connecti-
cut residents have done everything
they were asked to do: “Wear masks;
get vaccinated once, twice...” Why then
did Mr. Stefanowski believe he should
include the anti-vaxxers, reluctant vaxx- “Congress has passed the nation’s largest infrastructure investment, sending billions to our state. We can now rebuild our transportation system,
ers, anti-maskers, less than 6-feet social refortify our levees, reconnect our communities ... and transform the region,” U.S. Rep. John Larson writes. COURANT FILE PHOTO
distance individuals and those who
attended large gatherings? Contrary to OP-ED
what Mr. Stefanowski indicates, Gov.
Ned Lamont has not failed Connecticut.
A long-envisioned hope is
Some of our state’s residents have failed
Connecticut.
Ronald D. Roberts, Wallingford
Stefanowski continues finally becoming a reality
to spin the facts
Regarding Bob Stefanowski’s edito-
rial on how Gov. Ned Lamont has failed
the pandemic response [Opinion, Jan. By Rep. John Larson Hartford’s massive interchange takes Revitalization will not happen overnight,
19, “State failed pandemic response”]: up valuable land in the South Meadows rather it will take place one project at a
The juxtaposition of his piece with the The No. 1 traffic congestion choke- equivalent to the size of downtown Hart- time. This requires extensive outreach
article on Page 1 of Section 2 about how hold in Connecticut is the I-84 and I-91 ford, and it has blocked the community and engagement with the community.
the state’s virus metrics are declining interchange. It also holds the distinc- from the river and commerce. The status Achieving the Hartford400 vision is
encouraged me to chime in [Connecti- tion of the most congested chokehold quo has created racial isolation in a once critical to the long-term economic growth,
cut, Page 1, “State’s virus metrics in New England. The Bulkeley Bridge, thriving North Hartford. The North End health, and well-being of our region,
continue to decline”]. which connects the interchange, has was cut off from the city’s central busi- and it will benefit our neighborhoods in
Stefanowski’s astonishing spin on achieved national notoriety, ranking No. ness district by I-84 and is blocked from countless ways. Without vision, there is
the facts supports the partisan divide 3 in the United States for truck conges- the riverfront by I-91, depriving residents no victory.
existing in our country. His suggestion tion. The neighborhoods of North Hart- of economic opportunity and downtown Here’s one example: The intersection of
that Gov. Lamont has failed Connecticut ford and East Hartford’s Meadows have amenities. As a result, the 06120 in North Main and Albany by Keney Tower in Hart-
belies the fact that Connecticut has been been isolated by the interchange, with Hartford is Connecticut’s poorest ZIP ford will become a gateway to the North
at the forefront of successful responses detrimental results for commerce and code. End with a new connection to Riverside
to COVID-19 for two years. Given that development. The aging levee systems in Interstates I-84 and I-91 in and around Park. You will be able to walk from the
this pandemic is a worldwide phenome- East Hartford and Hartford, which are Hartford are among the country’s most new Joe Marfuggi Riverwalk on the Hart-
non and the metrics are a moving target in danger of collapse, only heighten the egregious design flaws. We now have a ford-Windsor line all the way to Coltsville
in every corner of the globe, Lamont’s concern and underscore the urgency for historic opportunity to correct the injus- National Historical Park without ever
rapid efforts to support masking and action. tices they caused. We can end the racial having to see a highway.
social distancing and his support and Congress has passed the nation’s larg- isolation, fulfill a 50-year goal to reclaim President Joe Biden and Secretary Pete
encouragement for the vaccinations est infrastructure investment, sending the riverfront, and build a multimodal Buttigieg’s plans to reconnect neighbor-
speak to his commitment. billions to our state. We can now rebuild transportation system that serves pedes- hoods across the country make the I-84/I-
Stefanowski asks why hospitals our transportation system, refortify our trians, bicycles, cars, buses, planes and 91 corridor well-positioned to compete
are overflowing, why testing is diffi- levees, reconnect our communities, elimi- trains. for new federal funding. President Biden
cult to find, why seniors are dying at a nate congestion, and transform the region. The bipartisan infrastructure law delivered on his promise by signing the
high rate. Look at nationwide statis- Gov. Ned Lamont and commissioner sends $6 billion to Connecticut. This infrastructure bill into law, and by doing
tics. Sadly, too many partisan voices Joseph Giulietti are committed to achiev- funding bolsters the Greater Hartford so created a path forward for Greater
find it important to pick apart policies ing these goals, and our federal delegation Mobility Study, which will advance the Hartford to transform itself. A long-envi-
and practices they oppose but rarely is working with them to bring these plans Harford400 proposal, a comprehensive sioned hope is now becoming a reality.
offer positive solutions. To suggest to fruition. multimodal transportation and economic
that money could buy our way out of a Past planning mistakes have robbed development plan to revitalize the region Congressman John Larson represents
pandemic is shortsighted and imprac- our communities of their potential. East and provide benefits for its residents. Connecticut’s 1st District.
tical.
Catherine Mattheis, Cheshire
Newington wrong
OP-ED
to cut access to voting
We have a stake in Ukraine’s fate
President John Kennedy’s “Ask not
what your country can do for you, ask
what you can do for your country”
motivated me to run for office in 2011.
Based on current events in Newing- By George F. Will Universal human rights protected by sovereign nations’
ton, it appears Mayor Beth DelBuono The Washington Post
commitments to the rule of law is a trans-Atlantic ideal.
is asking “what can Newington do for
Republicans” [courant.com, Jan. 18, WASHINGTON — Post-1945 attempts
“Democratic state lawmakers speak out to transform “Europe” from a geographi- Of NATO’s 30 members, just 10 Macron noted that European nations
against Newington proposal to reduce cal to a political designation have resulted are fulfilling the commitment, first and Russia signed such principles “30
the number of polling places in town”]? in a baroque accretion of bureaucra- announced 16 years ago, to spend at least years ago.” As he spoke, Russia was violat-
The latest example is the voting travesty cies, but no answer to Henry Kissinger’s 2% of GDP on defense. Macron waxed ing all of them.
being discussed: cutting polling spaces reported question: “Who do I call if I want optimistically about better batteries and An irony of 2022 is that Ukraine yearns
from eight to three to save a measly to speak to Europe?” The European Union more women on corporate boards before to affirm and buttress its nationality
$38,000 from an estimated $123 million is the world’s second-largest economic getting around to mentioning something primarily by associating not with NATO
budget, according to the Newington entity, with member nations’ combined unpleasant: Ukraine. but with the E.U., which many nationalists
registrar of voters. This attack on voting gross domestic products ($15.3 trillion) He called for the E.U. to have “our own throughout Europe disparage as inimical
rights is a microcosm of what’s being larger than that of China ($14.7 trillion), security doctrine, in complementarity to national sovereignty and a solvent of
seen across the country, as Republicans and dwarfing Russia’s ($1.5 trillion), with NATO, and with a genuine tech- national cultures. Ukraine is wiser than
are moving to restrict access to polling which is less than Italy’s ($1.9 trillion). nological independence, industrial and the E.U.’s despisers for reasons that illu-
places. Geopolitically, however, it is much less defense strategy.” It is, he said, Europe’s minate Americans’ stake in today’s clash
My wife and I volunteer to bring food than the sum of its 27 parts, as the Ukraine “vocation” to be a “balancing power, of civilizations: Universal human rights
to people who cannot travel, and know crisis is demonstrating. particularly in its dialogue with Russia.” protected by sovereign nations’ commit-
that these are seniors, disabled and the French President Emmanuel Macron This will not happen. Leave aside ments to the rule of law is a trans-Atlantic
poor citizens. The proposed change to would like to be designated to take the priority E.U. members give to social ideal.
three polling places would mean an esti- Kissinger’s telephone call. This month, spending — especially pensions and medi- In “The Abandonment of the West: The
mated reduction of voters at each site when he began a six-month term in cal care — for their aging populations over History of an Idea in America Foreign
from 2,300 to 7,000. Even if our elderly the rotating office of E.U. president, military spending. Macron’s blurry notion Policy,” Michael Kimmage, who served on
and disabled can go, will they be able he displeased the febrile portion of of “complementarity” with NATO would the State Department’s policy planning
to stand in line for extended periods? the French right by flying the Euro- inevitably mean discord with NATO. staff from 2014 to 2016, reminds us that
Will single parents working two jobs pean Union flag alone under the Arc Eastern Europeans, who live in a danger- for our Founders, “the United States was
be able to afford the time to vote? Will de Triomphe. He then delivered to the ous neighborhood and with memories of more vividly European before it was ever
the town have sufficient volunteers? European Parliament in Strasbourg, Russia rampant, know better than to trust palpably American.” There has been a
The purported savings, when weighed France, a speech that demonstrated why their security to Europe “balancing” its “Euro-American path to liberty.”
against the access for all, is a flimsy no Kissinger would bother placing that cafes and museums against Russian Pres- “The United States,” Kimmage insists,
argument — it’s an excuse and not a call. ident Vladimir Putin’s tanks and missiles. “is a country carved from the stone of
good reason to pursue a plan that would Macron’s speech began with some The farther Europeans are from the Atlan- Enlightenment thought,” which migrated
suppress voter turnout. continental chauvinism about Europe’s tic Ocean, the more trans-Atlanticist they west from England, Scotland, France and
Terry Borjeson, Newington supposed “democratic singularity,” such are. Germany, “from Königsberg” — Imman-
as the idea of “universal human rights It is fanciful to talk, as Macron is merely uel Kant’s home — “in Europe’s East to
No more compliments which need to be protected from the the latest European leader to do, about Philadelphia in the American colonies.”
fervors of history.” This idea animated Europe speaking with a “single, powerful Ukraine is looking to the West, away from
for Sinema, Manchin the American Revolution before, and voice” on behalf of “principles and rules ... Putin’s ethnoreligious, blood-and-soil
better than, the French Revolution, but established not against or without Russia, notion of nationhood, toward the commu-
How about profiles in hypocrisy? Both Macron was not under oath. He rhapso- but with Russia.” These principles, he nity of nations of shared Enlightenment
Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin dized about Europeans “sharing a civil- said, include “rejection of the use of force, values. For the West to look away from
changed Senate rules on the filibuster ity, a way of living in the world, from our of threats and of coercion; the free choice Ukraine would be an apostasy foreshad-
to pass the debt limit, but not now for cafes to our museums, which is incom- for states to take part in the organizations, owing a dark future.
voting rights. I was around for JFK’s parable,” and about making “Europe a alliances and security arrangements they
presidency, neither of these senators is democratic, cultural and educational wish; the inviolability of borders, the terri- George F. Will writes on politics and
a JFK. power.” Military power went unmen- torial integrity of states and the rejection domestic and foreign affairs for The
Patrick A. Farley, West Hartford tioned. of spheres of influence.” Washington Post.
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Raymond J. Walsh Roy L. Gronholm, Jr.
New Britain Southington
Matthew T. Dizney Matthew T. Dizney
OBITUARIES
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Dizney, Matthew Thomas hare memories,
MatthewT.Dizney,36,unex-
pectedly passed away at his
Southington home Wednesday
January 26,2022. Born in New
Britain, son of Thomas and express condolences,
Lynn (Harris) Dizney, Matt
graduated from New Britain
High School,Class of 2003 and
attended Southern CT State
University, and moved to
Southington in 2010. He was
and celebrate life in
employed as a Firefighter for
the City of New Britain and owned & operated Dizney
Restoration as roofing specialist. Matt loved his dog
Amber, his children, boating and cooking.
Besides his parents, he leaves his two chil-
dren,Tristan and Devin Dizney;his sister,Amanda Field
the obituary section
and her husband Rich of Southport; his ex-wife Ashley
Dizney whom he was still very close with; a niece and
a nephew.
A Memorial service will be held Wednesday
(February 2, 2022) 1 PM at Carlson Funeral Home, 45
FranklinSquare,NewBritain. Callinghourswillbeheld
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Wednesday from 11 AM until the time of the service
at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the CT Humane Society, Russell Road,
Newington, CT 06111. Please share a memory or note
of sympathy at www.carlsonfuneralhome.com
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Gronholm, Jr., Roy L.
Roy L. Gronholm, Jr., 64, of
Westbrook, beloved husband
of Linda (Fredrickson)
Gronholm, passed away on
Saturday January 22, 2022 at
Middlesex Hospital. He was
born in Middletown, son of
the late Anna (Kopera) and
Roy L.Gronholm,Sr. Roy was
employed as an Aerospace
Lab Tech with the Lee
Company for 36 years. In ad-
dition to his wife Linda, he is survived by his son, Roy
L. Gronholm, III and wife Jenn of East Lyme; daughter,
Amy Rodgers and husband Chris of Southington;sister,
Karen Hall of Moodus; grandchildren, Noah and Tyler
Rodgers, Cameron and Lorelei Gronholm; sister-in-law,
SuePasionek,andnieces,AshleeandAlyssaalongwith
several cousins who live near and far. Roy loved to
work but even more he loved spending time with his
family. He was a doting husband, a proud father and
grandfather and loyal brother and uncle. Most week-
ends of his life he could be found at his childhood
home on the Moodus Reservoir spending time with his
late mother and father and family.He loved fishing and
the friendly competition of catching the biggest bass.
He loved traveling to New Hampshire visiting theWhite
Mountains with Linda and spending time at home
watching Rocky and Rambo marathons with his cats
Rambo,Trump and the late Cooper.Roy will be remem-
bered for his kind heart, easy-going demeaner and
strong work ethic. His values will forever live on
throughhisfamily.Roy’shardworkwasclosetopaying
off, as he was looking forward to retirement in June of
2022.CallinghourswillbeheldonWednesdayFebruary
2,2022from5to7p.m.atBiegaFuneralHome,3Silver
St. Middletown. Masks are required. Funeral services
and burial will be private. Those who wish may send
memorial contributions to: Westbrook Ambulance
Association,1316BostonPostRd,WestbrookCT06498.
To share memories or express condolences online
please visit www.biegafuneralhome.com.
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