Connecticut needs some 3,000 new nurses per year to meet increasing care needs, but the number of new nursing school graduates is only estimated at 1,900 annually.
CT Viewpoints
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Racism is not an option — but don’t fight injustice with malice and violence
In 2024, we still look to a day, as Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed, when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
North Haven’s proposed ‘Eco Park’ is really ‘Toxic Dump Park’
The waste reclamation facility proposed for North Haven is a threat to air and water quality of its surrounding towns.
For progress, put Connecticut lawmakers and researchers in the same room
CT lawmakers heard 15 policy presentations from academic researchers Tuesday in a first-of-its-kind event. The takeaway: We need more.
CT disregarded literacy screening requirements during Right to Read initiative
The Right to Read legislation and district wishes do not supplant CT’s requirement for districts to use K-3 reading screening measures.
Here’s a good way for Connecticut to stop ‘street takeovers’
Here’s an effective strategy for deterring more street takeovers in the future.
A modest proposal for ensuring the rights of ‘unborn human beings’
Since the Supreme Court ruled that the state can legally intrude into a woman’s most intimate and private parts to control her body, her privacy, and her free will, then certainly the state can also legally make lesser intrusions to achieve the same end.
CT needs an election law like Colorado’s
Colorado has a law empowering its secretary of state to remove ‘unqualified’ candidates from presidential primary ballots. CT needs one too.
The CT Public Transportation Council: Your transit advocacy voice
With a regular forum and audience with CDOT and service providers, the CT Public Transportation Council is ready to advocate for CT riders.
For Palestinians, heaven is closer than Sinai
Israel’s strategy, in which the Biden Administration and Congress remain complicit, will only lead to more death, destruction, and insecurity.
The 2024 election puts the future of American democracy in our hands
We have a choice in 2024. Do you think everyone should be equal under the law? Or do you want to give power to one small group to decide what is right and wrong?
How I use storytelling to help improve health care for people leaving prison
We spoke data through storytelling to communities that were often blind to the legislative assault waged against Black and Brown communities.
Close disparities in hospital billing through FAIR and SITE Acts
Congress must pass reforms now to ensure everyone, regardless of income or background, can access and afford the health care they need.
Connecticut, don’t approve the expansion of a fracked gas pipeline
There is nothing “environmentally responsible” about expanding fossil fuel infrastructure in the midst of a climate crisis.
Connecticut, pay attention to plastics!
I urge CT residents to pay attention to global negotiations on plastic disposal. The world we leave behind depends on it.



