Author: Katie McWilliams

Litchfield County has the lowest UConn enrollment of all eight Connecticut counties. What about Storrs, CT is driving students away?

  In 2012, Cole­brook, Con­necti­cut—pop­u­la­tion 1,520—know for its quaint colo­nial archi­tec­ture and Algo­nquin State For­est might boast a clas­sic New Eng­land aes­thet­ic, but one thing they can’t claim are UConn stu­dents. The Litch­field Coun­ty town is the only town in…

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For Students, Quality of Life in Suburban Connecticut is a Positive, But Lack of Urban Areas a Drawback

Stu­dents at UConn ben­e­fit from Connecticut’s charm­ing sub­ur­ban com­mu­ni­ties, top notch edu­ca­tion and sta­ble econ­o­my, but the lack of young adult friend­ly urban com­mu­ni­ties in the state make grad­u­ates think twice about per­ma­nent­ly set­tling in the state. While nei­ther Gov. Dan­nel Malloy…

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Revolutionary Road: Five Countries that Successfully Gained Independence from the United Kingdom since 1900

Does real rev­o­lu­tion exist any­more? The Arab Spring would indi­cate so, but what­ev­er hap­pened to the glo­ri­ous Euro­pean rev­o­lu­tion? The French Rev­o­lu­tion and The Russ­ian Rev­o­lu­tion set the stan­dard for the mod­ern nation to over­throw the monar­chy and pur­sue national…

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Bloomberg has the Basics, But One Sided Coverage Leaves Apple Consumers in the Dark About iPhone 6

Bloomberg News prides itself on straight­for­ward finan­cial­ly and tech­no­log­i­cal­ly angled sto­ries and I had high expec­ta­tions for their cov­er­age of Apple’s big prod­uct unveil­ing. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, those went unde­liv­ered despite the infor­ma­tive, eye-catch­ing head­line—“Apple Unveils Watch, Big­ger-Screen iPhones in Prod­uct Blitz.” California…

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