This amazing man deserves our admiration, not miserable punishment for imaginary crimes.
Stanley Heller
Stanley Heller contributed this unpaid opinion as part of a program to provide Connecticut Mirror readers a forum for addressing public policy issues.
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Add divestment to the CT special session agenda
The Connecticut legislature should come up with the language similar to wording it has used in the past to bar investments in countries like apartheid-era South Africa and Sudan.
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Why does CT have $95 million invested in Israel?
We invest despite precedents when Connecticut sold off investments in companies because we were appalled by unjust or murderous actions by governments.
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Sen. Murphy, don’t let Saudi Arabia get a nuclear bomb
Why would anyone want to allow atomic weapons in the hands of a reckless Mohammed Bin Salman?
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Gov. Lamont, veto bill to ‘advance’ dangerous nuclear power
Rather than seek “advancement,” we should be figuring out how to phase out this technology.
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They’re smelly, noisy and dangerous. Let’s move away from gas-powered equipment
The bill, SB1145, provides money incentives to businesses that sell battery or electric-powered small off-road equipment like lawn mowers and leaf blowers.
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Time to start rationing fuel
We should have been on a climate emergency status years ago, but it’s ever more necessary with the growing war over Ukraine.
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Two years is too long for justice for Mubarak Soulemane
Middlesex State Attorney Michael Gailor had the case for almost two years but made no decision on the criminal charges.
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Why is Lamont silent about a killing by one of his state troopers?
On Jan. 15, 2020, State Trooper Brian North ended the life of Mubarak Soulemane by shooting him through a car window seven times. The car Soulemane was in was stopped and surrounded by state trooper and local police cars. All the windows were up. Yet in less than a minute Soulemane had been shot dead. To date Gov. Ned Lamont has said nothing about this killing by a state police officer.