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  • by CT Mirror Staff
  • April 28, 2010
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It’s been three months since The Connecticut Mirror began news coverage of Connecticut’s government, politics and public policy. In that time we’ve published hundreds of stories viewed by a steadily-growing number of visitors to our website, CTMirror.org, as well as by readers of our newspaper partners.

Now we’re starting a new opinion section, CTCommons, to bring you commentary and perspective to go along with our news reporting. We will begin with a page of op-ed style articles on the issues that matter to our state, as well as links to state and national commentary published elsewhere.

We invite your contributions to the page. Please take a look at the guidelines for op-ed articles, and use this form to submit your work. We look forward to hearing from you.

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