Of all the last-minute pieces of legislation haggled over in secret, the move to legalize keno is among the most shortsighted. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, State Senate President Don Williams and Speaker of the House Brendan Sharkey all agreed to tuck keno in the budget just before the legislative session ended in June to balance […]

Nowadays there seems to be no limit on what Obamacare will be blamed for.

Connecticut was among the first states to enact Labor Day legislation in 1887, a full seven years before the U.S. Congress made it a federal holiday. Labor Day was created to recognize trade unions, secure workers’ safety and generally honor the contributions of laborers everywhere. And yet, more than 100 years after its passage, how well do we, as a society, really honor our workers?

The new Netflix original series “Orange is the New Black” is capturing national media attention. The series, based on the best-selling book, is based on the experiences of its author, Piper Kerman, at Connecticut’s Danbury Federal Prison Camp.

For decades the preservation of a working boatyard and “water dependent” activities in Stamford’s harbor has been a priority of both Connecticut’s environmental protection agency and local planners.

Energy policymaking in Connecticut has lately been consumed by the struggle over large-scale hydropower, and that is unfortunate, because the energy policy we actually need in Connecticut has little to do with remote Canadian dams and a lot to do with a low-cost, consumer-friendly energy resource much closer to home – energy efficiency.

Our Connecticut state budget has become a biannual fiscal train wreck. Given the depths of the budget crisis Gov. Malloy inherited two years ago, many of us encouraged our tough minded new governor, working with his fellow Democrats in the legislature, when he pledged to present the first honest budget in years. He said it was a GAAP-approved budget that would stabilize our finances with real budget cuts matched with revenue increases.

Moving 37,500 adults who are currently insured out of the state Medicaid HUSKY A Program and requiring them to buy their own health insurance on Access Health CT, the new Connecticut health insurance exchange marketplace, isn’t such a bad idea.

The tragedy in Newtown has abruptly prompted the medical profession to recommit itself to action in this area. As physicians, we witness the myriad effects of gun violence every day. While our professional roles often require a measure of clinical detachment in the office, we carry these personal, heartbreaking stories home as well, grieving with […]

I was in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001. The events in Newtown have affected me as nothing else since 9/11, now that my wife and I have children, ages 7 and 5. We try to shield them from a climate of anxiety that already seemed pervasive. The National Rifle Association’s call for paramilitary school vigilance […]

Another view on last night’s vice presidential debate is available here, at CTLatino News.

If you are gay and seeking political office, well, who cares, says a writer for Roll Call, the Capitol Hill publication. Sexual Orientation ‘Nonissue’ on Campaign Trail”

Newsman Walter Cronkite once said, “America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” He might be pleasantly surprised to learn that the new Affordable Care Act comes closer to being all three – at least where women are concerned. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the ACA last week, it ensured that […]

Connecticut just made a major policy change that will protect kids and reduce crime. You probably didn’t notice. That’s understandable. The Raise the Age campaign that pushed for this legislation didn’t run television commercials or send out mailers. We couldn’t afford them. The reform helped 16- and 17-year-olds in trouble with the law. These kids […]

Last week, Gov. Dan Malloy vetoed House Bill 5556, which would have brought needed transparency to Connecticut elections and made the Constitution State a national leader on campaign finance disclosure. At a time when outside groups are poised to swamp elections with historic levels of undisclosed political spending, it is unfortunate Malloy rejected this robust […]