The United Ways of Connecticut support permanently increasing the state earned income tax credit and creating a state child tax credit.

We had our rationale: unconditional surrender of Japan and the end of World War II.  So, would another nation with nuclear weapons find a rationale to use them today?

As we navigate this complex issue of drug prices in Connecticut, we must be sure proposed legislation does not result in unintended consequences of stifling research and innovation.

We are two years into the pandemic and Connecticut’s mental health workforce is exhausted.

The Connecticut economy rests on the shoulders of the child-care system, and our economic recovery from COVID will not last if the system collapses.

It’s worth remembering that e-cigarettes came onto the market because there was a demand for a less harmful alternative to combustible cigarettes.

Thousands of children – in our neighborhoods, in our schools, and even in our own homes – may currently be exposed to levels of lead considered unsafe by the CDC.

As democracy is currently under internal and external assaults, the sort of leadership now urgently required is the kind that organizes all of our people and directs us toward the public common good.

Here’s why the Connecticut legislature’s Public Health Committee should vote to approve the medical aid in dying bill.

As a retired board-certified emergency physician and as a son who lost his mother to cancer last November, I have a unique perspective on death.

Assisted suicide is a political policy which undermines a doctor’s role as healer.