Columbia’s decision to remove its students from Windham High School is disheartening and leaves the Windham school more segregated than before.
Opinion
110,000 poor adults can keep their Medicaid coverage
All they have to do is get a part-time job, or volunteer 20 hours a week , or even better, enroll in a training program to get a skill that will yield a good paying job.
Some, not enough, progress on CT’s segregation
An honest assessment, and the one this new report confirms, is that the approaches CT has relied on to end segregation have not been enough.
Distance from the Ebola threat is an illusion
The Ebola danger to the American public is not uncontained community spread, but rather the acute paralysis of our local healthcare infrastructure.
Problems with CT veterans’ asbestos exposure histories creates hardships
When asbestos-related is eventually diagnosed, victims must deal with insufficient documentation that cannot reliably reconstruct how they became exposed.
The no-window-window seat suit survives
Can you imagine an aisle seat that’s not on the aisle? I can’t.
Traffic cameras expose gap between government and Fairfield residents
Fairfield’s rollout of speed cameras in school zones has become a test of whether residents can shape the systems that govern their daily movement.
Justice for J’Allen Jones
The state should not have the right to hide video that casts it in a negative light, yet the attorney general fought tenaciously to do just that.
Parking flexibility comes to CT: Let’s embrace it
Ushering in parking flexibility is a mainstream, common-sense policy that will help build more homes for our friends and family.
The methane monster — a threat to us all
As a 17-year-old, I am concerned about the damage expanding the Brookfield Compressor Station will have on my community and the environment.
A lifeline in CT’s childcare desert
While public debate centers on commercial childcare centers, a quiet alternative is keeping CT’s working families afloat. It is called family childcare.
Proposed golf facility violates UConn’s environmental responsibility
When students learned of The University of Connecticut’s plans to construct a golf practice facility on Mansfield’s East Road, opposition was immediate.
Why Bridgeport’s anti-ethics faction is winning
A small faction of the Bridgeport City Council holds veto power over the appointment of three new Ethics Committee volunteers.
The irony of celebrating America
Behold the many absurd juxtapositions we saw in our nation’s capital over the July 4th weekend.
Erosion of the common good in our national health care system
I have always felt secure about the role our state and federal governments have in supporting and promoting our health care delivery system…until now.

