Connecticut’s mix of paper ballots and electronic tabulators are the gold standard for elections security, but the state’s machines are nearing the end of their useful life.
August 14, 2019 @ 5:11 pm
UConn president’s goals: expand research and entrepreneurship, mitigate pension liability
The University of Connecticut’s new president, Thomas C. Katsouleas, got his marching orders Wednesday — a wide-ranging list of goals from working with the corporate community on workforce development to taking steps to mitigate the effect of the state’s burdensome unfunded pension liability.
New Haven Union Station retail redo planned
A new boutique hotel is being courted for New Haven’s Union Station as part of a planned comprehensive redo of the downtown transit hub’s commercial, office, and retail space.
Manson prison holding fewer and fewer young adults, teens
Last month there were only 43 young boys confined at the state’s high-security prison in Cheshire. Three years ago there were 76.
Make healthcare accessible, not a hurdle for immigrants
Non-citizen “documented” immigrants may soon have to decide whether accessing necessary healthcare is worth risking their path to citizenship.
Greenland is melting and that ain’t good
We Americans believe in perpetual progress. We want our children and grandchildren to be better off than we are. It is an admirable and long-held trait. So why, one has to ask, are we the people intent upon leaving our descendants a diminished, degraded and dangerous world to inhabit.
Want tolls? Ditch the gross receipts tax on gasoline
In his recent op-ed in support of highway tolls, Richard DeLuca fails to mention or makes just a passing mention of the raiding of gasoline tax revenue, and totally fails to mention that we have the hidden gas tax called the Gross Receipts Tax or GRT.