Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is maintaining his commitment to fully fund Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood in Connecticut if the federal government ends its financial support as part of the Republican plan to dramatically reshape the Affordable Care Act, a spokeswoman said.
June 23, 2017
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Focus educational help on improving minority high school graduation
Government funding for underprivileged students to attend college is not an effective way to close the education gap because it does not address the core problem, which is that many low-income students never make it to graduation in the first place. The government should be providing students with the resources they need in order to graduate from high school and be successful when they go to college, instead of providing a donation toward a college fund for students who made it to graduation.
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CT opioid crisis more deadly than guns, auto accidents combined
There were over 2,000 drug overdoses in Connecticut in a four-year span: 2012-2015. In just 2016 alone, opioids claimed the lives of 917 people from Connecticut. These alarming numbers constitute a full-blown epidemic. In Connecticut, opioid drugs and addiction are now more deadly than gunshots and car accidents combined.
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Malloy’s proposed labor agreement unreasonable, outrageous and insufficient
I read with interest Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Op-Ed in the June 19 edition of the Hartford Courant, in which he offered a spirited defense of his proposed labor agreement. Unfortunately, he left out some key facts that Connecticut taxpayers and residents need to know.
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Students may get a central source for transfer information
A bill awaiting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s signature would create an information hub for students seeking to take advantage of a five-year effort to ease transfers within the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system or to the University of Connecticut.