Chris Powell GATA weekly update on King World News | Friday, August 7, 2009

http://kingworldnews.com Powell has been managing editor of the Journal Inquirer, a daily newspaper in Manchester, Connecticut, since 1974. He writes a column about Connecticut issues that is published in a dozen other newspapers in the state and Rhode Island and often appears on radio and television public-affairs programs in Connecticut. He twice has been elected chairman of the Connecticut Associated Press Managing Editors Association and remains a member of its board of directors. He is legislative chairman of the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information. He is a member of the Connecticut, Manchester, and Vernon historical societies; the Connecticut Policy and Economic Council; Community Partners in Action (formerly the Connecticut Prison Association); and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Technical and Historical Association.