An estimated 74,000 CTresidents take high-cost biologics like adalimumab, and many of these people are facing choosing between their medication, rent or groceries.
Opinion
CT’s $1.6 billion railroad promise
It would be nice if officialdom would stop overpromising and under-delivering.
A CT sheep farmer’s view from the solar field
A well-managed flock keeps vegetation under solar panels trimmed naturally, with minimal machinery, without pollution or the risk of damaged panels.
Before you vote, learn Duverger’s Law
Democrats and Republicans both benefit from a structure that enables their duopoly by disadvantaging emerging competitors.
We all can act for CT’s greater good
Polarized thinking, on both sides of the aisle, pulls us apart, but we do not have to give in to it.
Thank you, Hartford, for letting me teach. Now save your public schools
The recent gutless conduct of state and city officials demonstrates the primacy of a cancerous consensus killing Hartford’s public schools.
The U.S.-imposed fuel crisis in Cuba is inhumane and immoral
Cuba is a very different political system than ours, but it is not our right to force regime change upon a sovereign country.
What if there were no trash to pick up?
Call it waste management, trash disposal or sanitary engineering, garbage removal is still one of those unpleasant but necessary services for maintaining public health and welfare. You can ignore the men and women who do most of the dirty work for us. But trash doesn’t disappear on its own. The armies of trash haulers who […]
CT must no longer delay compassion at the end of life
The role of government should not be to prescribe one universally acceptable way to die.
CT’s hypocrisy about election integrity
If leaders want credibility when they condemn Trump’s attacks on democracy, they must also be willing to confront corruption, intimidation, and election abuse in Bridgeport.
Child neglect is vast in CT and DCF may not be so bad
If DCF is measured by the breadth of child neglect and abuse in Connecticut, the agency might seem to be an almost miraculous success.
Let’s have democracy funds throughout CT
Before the next election cycle, cities and municipalities across Connecticut should join Seattle, New York, and other local democracies in building “democracy funds.”
P.T. Barnum’s Bridgeport was no circus
Barnum helped build Bridgeport into an industrial powerhouse.
Congress has given states new housing tools. CT is ready to make them work
Increasing production and protecting our most vulnerable residents are not competing priorities. A healthy housing system requires both.
Without Olmstead rule protection, God help the disabled
People with disabilities are at risk of losing their community services if the Olmstead decision of 1999 is set aside.
