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CT Viewpoints
We welcome informed and responsible commentary about local, state and national public policy from all Connecticut residents and organizations. Submit one here.
Setting the record straight on UConn paid leave provisions
Being able to recruit and retain the best faculty means ensuring the negotiated pay and benefits the university offers are highly competitive.
Use rural health funds to strengthen CT’s community health centers
We recommend that CT direct rural health transformation resources toward strengthening the health care workforce and investing in telehealth and health technology.
Saving CT hospitals with Senate Bill 7
Connecticut’s Senate Bill 7 would require health care administrators to be licensed, similar to the clinicians they supervise.
The depolarization challenge. Will you try it?
Many people have been hurt by our current level of polarization, and there’s worse pain to come if things continue this way.
Lamont’s moves on energy provide roadmap back for Democrats
The governor should be applauded for recognizing the necessary role clean low-cost natural gas must play alongside zero-carbon sources like nuclear, solar and wind.
Listen longer, they are more than their politics
Listening, not to agree, but to understand, creates belonging. This is what keeps us from treating politics as a zero-sum game.
CCSU– where academic freedom and freedom of speech collide
Freedom of speech and academic freedom are not the same thing. Sometimes they are mutually exclusive.
This is UConn: Zero paid family leave for professors
UConn currently lets every pregnant/expecting individual reinvent the wheel, cobbling together a leave plan with whatever resources and departmental grace they can muster.
Don’t try to change people’s minds
My principle for better political conversations is difficult: Do not try to change people’s minds.
The revenge of ‘elderly white hippies’
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller dismissed the anti-Trump “No Kings” protesters as a bunch of “elderly white hippies.” Let’s break that down.,
No immigrant’s child should come home to an empty house
We do not want our neighborhoods turned into staging grounds for immigration crackdowns aimed to stroke the right-wing base. .
I was the problem (It’s me)
Most Americans fall into the Exhausted Majority —not firmly on the far right or left, just worn out.
What’s so scary about CT housing reform?
What is scarier? A shopping plaza being modified to include townhomes or watching your children move away because a home in town is unaffordable?
Belonging is the battlefield: pass HB 5002.
This is where policy meets bad faith and the result is stalling and stagnation. We don’t lack ideas. We lack moral clarity and resolve.

