In CT, there’s a lack of urgency for change and preventative care and an increased need for primary care providers to supply accessible care.
Opinion
CT — Rich state, inequitable state
CT’s fiscal guardrails are now actively used by people in both parties to justify not doing more to address the hideous disparities that exist across our state.
Transgender medicine – and lawsuits waiting to happen
While those promoting gender affirming care have characterized their opposition as MAGA yahoos, religious nuts, homophobes and transphobes, they are now encountering a much more formidable group – the trial lawyers.
Why Connecticut should grow more fiber hemp
Fiber hemp is emerging as a climate-smart crop, offering multifaceted benefits within a rotational farming system.
A bill to protect reproductive freedom in CT
The bill would ensure that health care providers do not face disciplinary action for providing medically accurate information and health care to their patients.
In closing birthing centers, CT fails to protect reproductive health rights
Connecticut public health and regulatory agencies, you have saved women’s rights for abortion but have been complicit in denying our right to childbirth in local and safe facilities.
Too old to drive?
None of us are getting any younger, but when is it time to hang up our keys for our sake and that of others?
CT’s attack on freedom of information has escalated
The FOIA is being blasted to oblivion by lawmakers who unfortunately think that by making information and government off limits, they are acting in the public’s best interest.
CT reading instruction has gone awry, and Right to Read isn’t the solution
CT must provide authentic training to all K-3 teachers, special education teachers, and reading specialists in structured literacy.
Why CT cuts down trees: For safety of those traveling on our roads
Safety and environmental sustainability are not in conflict. While we are strategically addressing unsafe trees, we are also planting smaller native and healthy trees, bushes, and shrubs that beautify the landscape.
‘Better FAFSA,’ worse results
The Better FAFSA has been mired with challenges, including intermittent availability early in the release, use of outdated inflation data, incorrect calculations for hundreds of thousands of students, delayed transmissions to higher education institutions, and more.
CT must continue to include non-lawyers in judicial selection process
You do not need a law degree to evaluate a person’s experience and temperament, or to confirm their statutory eligibility to be a judge.
Lamont wants to reinstate discrimination against people with disabilities
The governor is proposing to reinstate discriminatory eligibility standards for health insurance coverage under the Medicaid/HUSKY program based entirely on whether people are disabled (or elderly) or non-disabled,
Connecticut must end legacy college admissions
Legacy preference — the practice of giving an advantage during the admissions process to college students with family members who are alumni — is immoral.
Fix CT’s tax disparity by taxing the wealthiest more
Connecticut is one of the wealthiest states in the country but has one of the highest income disparities between its wealthiest and poorest residents.
