Anoka Faruqee

We have repeatedly heard that the Common Ground slate is neither beholden to nor aligned with any political party or entity at the local, state, or national levels. But is this the full story? The slate is endorsed by the Woodbridge Republican Town Committee (WRTC), and the campaign has non-Woodbridge individuals, including the Campaign Chair and Treasurer, with extensive experience running Republican campaigns across Connecticut.

He had blossomed in the Bauhaus, fled the Nazis, epitomized the zeitgeist at Black Mountain College, and infused the Yale School of Art with the spirit of experiment. He’d also produced a vast and growing series of artworks that would land him squarely among the giants of modernism. And when, in 1958, at age 70, the German émigré Josef Albers retired from the Yale faculty, legacy-defining professional triumphs were still to come.

It was not customary for a woman to go for a walk alone in the diplomatic enclave in Islamabad, Pakistan where my parents were living. When I did, the hostile looks I received made me feel both vulnerable and defiant, yet I stopped going on walks. As a Bangladeshi-American woman, I can imagine the justified fears that some people in the US have that they will be stopped, frisked, detained, or killed with impunity. I think about all the things one decides not to do.