One week remains for early bird registration for The Connecticut Mirror’s first statewide event, “Small State, Big Debate: Inequality.” You can find registration, speakers and the day’s schedule at the event’s website here. Early bird registration lasts until next Monday, March 24. Packages include savings for individuals, nonprofits, businesses and a pay-it-forward special for students or generous individuals who wish to […]
One week remains for “Small State, Big Debate” early bird registration
Posted inHealth, Politics
‘Aid in dying’ bill offers hope, generates fear
More than 500 witnesses submitted public-hearing testimony about H.B. 5326, An Act Concerning Compassionate Aid in Dying for Terminally Ill Patients. But the essence of arguments pro and con could be distilled Monday in the opposing testimonies of two women.
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Blumenthal, Murphy declare war on heroin
Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy have declared war on heroin, insisting the federal government do more to combat what has become a particularly lethal drug that claims, on the average, one life in the state every day.
Posted inEducation
CT schools lag in diagnosing, helping dyslexic students
Getting identified and getting the necessary services to cope with dyslexia has seemingly been a decades-long challenge in Connecticut.
Posted inMoney, Politics
Malloy blasts Boehner for saying CT ‘cheating’ on food stamps
Washington – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said House Speaker John Boehner is “shameful” and “reprehensible” when he says states like Connecticut are cheating when it comes to the federal food stamp program.
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Op-ed: Thank you, CT Mirror
The CT Mirror is…an extraordinarily important – and these days essential – source of information about what’s going on in our state, and in the nation and world.
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Op-ed: Flawed at the core
Connecticut should create new national standards, in an open and transparent way, written by those who know how to teach, with the goal of developing students’ minds and promoting their achievement as complex thinkers and motivated learners.
Posted inEducation
Can Connecticut afford school choice?
At a time when the state’s school-age population is declining and resources are scarce, key state lawmakers are questioning whether it’s appropriate to spend millions of dollars more over the next several years to increase enrollment in magnet schools.
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Op-ed: Common Core: A terrible mistake
Terrible mistakes are being made by education reformers. A “one size fits all” approach to education is detrimental to children/students and robs teachers of their ability to be effective educators.
Posted inNews
Washington Watch: March 17-22
The House of Representatives and the Senate are out of session this week. But the White House and State Department will continue to wrestle with Russia over Ukraine and inch toward imposing sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s government.
Posted inEducation, Health, Money
The thrills of public policy (a non-ironic point of view)
Yes, legislative debates can be ridiculously long, redundant and ridiculously off-topic. But the issues can be – potentially – momentous, for specific individuals, and all of us.
Posted inHealth, Politics
Malloy skeptical on assisted-suicide bill
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy expressed his strongest doubts to date about pending legislation that would allow physicians under certain circumstances to prescribe, but not administer, lethal drugs to the terminally ill. “I don’t think in society we should be viewed as encouraging suicide,” Malloy told reporters Friday. “I would have to understand what the safeguards […]
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Op-ed: Connecticut deserves an open, transparent, accessible government
Are we well served by our current insular, inaccessible state government? No.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Op-ed: How Holi(days) can promote unity
The approach of the Hindu festival Holi suggests ways that — in the U.S. as in India — holidays can bring people together across religions and cultures.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
CL&P says (mostly) no to tree-trimming halt
Connecticut Light and Power will not be curtailing most of its more radical tree trimming temporarily as requested earlier this week by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority