The choice between default federal standards or new state-level clean vehicle standards is not a choice between continued reliance on gas and diesel vehicles or increased EV usage.
Opinion
Connecticut: Support just cause eviction protection expansion in 2024
Connecticut should expand its existing Just Cause Eviction Protection law, which protects against ‘no-cause’ evictions.
Urgent crisis centers need more support
Providing centers around CT for children experiencing a mental health crisis is a great step forward. Now we need to ensure their funding.
When abortion was a crime in Connecticut
The story of Emma Gill, who died after terminating her pregnancy illegally, lives on in the stories emerging from states with abortion bans.
Through EV policy, Connecticut can right its past air pollution wrongs
CT has a long history of forcing tailpipe and industrial pollution into vulnerable communities — and a chance to start making things right.
CT can, and must, do more to confront domestic violence post-COVID
The pandemic saw a steep rise in incidents of domestic violence. There are concrete steps CT can take to keep victims safe from abusers.
When it’s train vs vehicle, train always wins
Most deaths are caused by stupidity: people driving around the crossing gates that lower before the train roars through.
EV adoption is critical to clean air goals — and can be accomplished in Connecticut
New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Vermont have already adopted California’s vehicle emissions standards. CT should join them.
Connecticut can, and must, sustainably manage its forests
People have influenced Connecticut’s forests since our region was post-glacial treeless tundra. Taking human intervention out of the equation now would be unprecedented and reckless.
Connecticut lawmakers, restore heating funding right away!
CT should use the upcoming special legislative session to tap the state’s ample surplus to properly fund the energy assistance program.
CT State Community College is an infant with an unpromising future
We are seeing the slow and sad demise of the community college era. It was supposed to be educationally uplifting to some of society’s least privileged members. But as usual, they are again being cheated.
Connecticut: Don’t repeat the mistakes of Big Tobacco settlements with opioid money
Connecticut must have a clearly defined strategy, measurable outcomes, and a “test and learn” implementation approach for its opioid settlement money.
A truthful curriculum should not be controversial
Critical race theory has become controversial in the classroom, but in fact its the tool we need to move our society forward.
A soccer stadium won’t rescue Bridgeport. It needs more middle-class housing
Hartford’s decline into poverty over the last 60 years hasn’t been reversed or even halted by the expensive development projects that have shuffled the city’s downtown this way and that — first Constitution Plaza, an office building complex; then the Hartford Civic Center; then the Connecticut Convention Center; and most recently a minor league baseball […]
Connecticut has strong gun laws — but we need national action on gun safety
Even though Connecticut is a leader on gun control legislation, its residents can’t be safe if the federal government does not act.

