The story of Emma Gill, who died after terminating her pregnancy illegally, lives on in the stories emerging from states with abortion bans.

CT has a long history of forcing tailpipe and industrial pollution into vulnerable communities — and a chance to start making things right.

New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Vermont have already adopted California’s vehicle emissions standards. CT should join them.

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.

CT should use the upcoming special legislative session to tap the state’s ample surplus to properly fund the energy assistance program.

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 must have a clearly defined strategy, measurable outcomes, and a “test and learn” implementation approach for its opioid settlement money.

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 needs some 3,000 new nurses per year to meet increasing care needs, but the number of new nursing school graduates is only estimated at 1,900 annually.

In 2024, we still look to a day, as Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed, when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.