Bernard L. Kavaler

For those responsible for assuring prospering town centers across Connecticut, the coronavirus-altered landscape requires not only revised messaging but a reinvigorated message.  That’s because those receiving that communication will be seeing it through a vastly altered prism.

The completion of Connecticut’s State Plan on Aging could not come at a better time.  We have seen first-hand the strengths and weaknesses in how and where our steadily growing aging population is cared for, and more urgently than ever are in the midst of making decisions with both societal and personal ramifications.

It may be a surprise to some, but Connecticut’s capital city is an international one – steadily becoming a magnet for people from nations throughout the world. Those expanding demographics – and the increasingly inter-reliant world in which we live – are the driving force in an effort to spur conversations in Hartford and across the state, and improve global awareness.  A vigorous initiative — Maps for All — urges residents to “see the world in public places.”  It was launched last month to coincide with National Geography Awareness Week, but has ambitions that extend further.