The Connecticut Department of Transportation is proposing a cut in train and bus service while also raising fares… just as I predicted months ago.
Opinion
Let’s end hate in Connecticut
The following is adapted from an address that was to be delivered Sept. 9 in Willimantic’s Memorial Park as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur approached. Let’s have no hate, no violence, not in our hearts, homes, or communities. We have a common concern about the growing hate and threats of violence in both our community […]
CT needs clean cars and trucks
Gov. Ned Lamont, DEEP and the General Assembly must put the health of our community and climate first and move swiftly to adopt both the ACT and ACC II.
Last year’s school funding win was only the beginning. Here’s what CT needs to do now.
The evidence is clear, if the money is put into the proper programming, public schools across the state could improve.
The U.S.A. — Exceptional in its own mind
America calls itself “exceptional” among nations, and a shining beacon of freedom and democracy. But when America’s reality belies its mythic conceptions, many fearful citizens regress into heroic narratives like a frightened child into a fairy tale.
Sen. Murphy, don’t let Saudi Arabia get a nuclear bomb
Why would anyone want to allow atomic weapons in the hands of a reckless Mohammed Bin Salman?
Housing segregation persists in Middletown
Black homeownership has a storied history in Middletown. We need to take inspiration from those early pioneers to fix today’s inequities.
She walked the walk — all 2,192 miles of it
About a quarter of the people attempting to complete the Appalachian Trail actually finish it. Diana Jackson is one.
CSCC, Inc. — Lose, lose and lose
Connecticut now has a consolidated statewide community college in the form of CSCC — Connecticut State Community College. As predicted it is a huge, hierarchical, bureaucracy that daily fosters confusion.
Gas powered vehicles: Unsafe at any speed
Borrowing from the title of Ralph Nader’s once popular book, cars and trucks that burn gas or diesel are unsafe at any speed: Unsafe to our health, unsafe to our future prosperity, and unsafe to our climate.
Childhood obesity is scary, not the new guidelines for treating it
The time to intervene to reduce childhood obesity is now, as this chronic condition is all too pervasive.
On leadership and the Fairfield stench
Swaths of Fairfield’s beach neighborhood had been suffering for months from a noxious odor emanating from the “digester,” part of the sewage processing plant/Water Pollution Control Facility (WPCF). The stench was so bad many residents couldn’t open their windows. Dinners and graduation parties were cancelled. Residents were frustrated and appealed to the town administration, looking […]
So many transit questions. So few answers.
So much news, so little time, even for a self-avowed news junkie like me to try to put the puzzle pieces together.
Office of Health Strategy shows the way. Are state leaders listening?
Connecticut is one of only five states which has no federally approved rural health plan. So there is no organized effort at the state level to preserve or enhance rural health services.
Connecticut should grapple with the Constitution’s disqualification clause
Section Three is written in plain English. It means what it says. It is freely available for us to read and decide for ourselves in light of the events of January 6.
