DEIA initiatives have built an important legacy for many of us. To dismantle these achievements is to disregard our collective birthright.
DEI programs are essential to tackle systemic barriers
Posted inHealth
CT long-term care insurance prices are skyrocketing. Here’s what to know.
Prices are soaring due to miscalculations by insurers on how long people would live, the price of care and how many would need it.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Do we divide CT or move to unify it?
I fear that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have lost sight of our shared duty: our responsibility is to the people we represent, not our parties.
Posted inStudent Voice
Protecting ourselves against interrogation deception
Connecticut must do better when it comes to the treatment of criminal suspects, to guard against the possibility of false confessions.
Posted inEvents
REGISTER: This Could Work! with Athletic Brewing March 19
CT Mirror State Policy Editor Erica E. Phillips will sit down with Bill Shufelt and John Walker of Milford’s Athletic Brewing Company on March 19, 2025, at Stamford’s Ferguson Library, 6PM.
Posted inEvents
REGISTER: CT Mirror’s 2025 Big Budget Review
Our much-anticipated annual event continues! CT Mirror State Budget Reporter Keith Phaneuf talks with host John Dankosky about Governor Lamont’s budget proposal for the next two years. Wed, Feb 12, 7PM via Zoom.
Posted inMoney
Lamont’s commitment to CT’s fiscal ‘guardrails’ is being tested
Vanishing ARPA funds will test Gov. Ned Lamont’s commitment to budget ‘guardrails’ as lawmakers seek more funds for Medicaid and education.
Posted inTalking Transportation
Too much transit news, some of it good
This week I want to remind you of some good transportation news that got lost in the flood of developments in Washington.
Posted inPolitics
This week at the Capitol: Jan. 27-31, 2025
A round-up of news briefs from CT Mirror reporters about this week at the Connecticut General Assembly.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Lamont accuses utilities of campaign to oust state’s top regulator
Ned Lamont called Eversource and United Illuminating’s lawsuit against PURA and Marissa Gillett ‘a full-court press to get her out of there.’
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Which CT towns have the most children of foreign-born parents?
Almost every CT town is home to children of foreign-born parents. The state is challenging an effort to end birthright citizenship.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Adjusting CT’s guardrails is the fiscally and morally responsible choice
CT’s fiscal guardrails have quickly turned into fiscal roadblocks that are hampering the economic and social progress of our state.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Muslim Heritage Month in CT –an empty gesture
Connecticut Muslims are deeply anguished and enraged by the U.S.-supported genocide of innocent civilians in Palestine, where the Muslim majority are suffering.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
When we talk about homelessness, words matter
Prejudice, like some other diseases, is something you can carry around without even knowing you have it.
Posted inHousing
CT housing market has 7% vacancy rate; tightest in U.S., report says
A presentation showing CT has the nation’s most constrained housing market was done in response to a law mandating a fair share zoning study.