Connecticut’s farmers deserve a break from the soon-to-be implemented highway use tax on trucks.
Support Connecticut farmers: exempt agriculture from highway use tax
Posted inCities & Towns
Is CT embracing more regionalism? And 19 other questions for Lyle Wray
The retiring head of the Capitol Region Council of Governments talks about the potential of regionalism with CT Mirror’s Tom Condon.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Connecticut democracy is omitting 9,480 voters
If we aim to be a leader in restorative justice and providing incarcerated people a real opportunity to re-enter society, we need to make sure they feel like real citizens while in prison.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Connecticut towns need control over transit-oriented development
We need to empower –not mandate — communities to come up with common sense solutions to affordable housing needs.
Posted inPolitics
CT Senate endorses jobless benefits for strikers, likely a symbolic act
Connecticut’s Senate embraced the concept of providing unemployment benefits to strikers, passing a bill likely to die in the House.
Posted inPolitics
Several COVID-19 policies extended through June in emergency bill
The content of the bill was less controversial than its arrival as an emergency-certified bill without a public hearing or committee review.
Posted inJustice
ACLU voices support for key criminal justice reforms
The ACLU is supporting bills this year that would end solitary confinement and prohibit the use of deceptive interrogation tactics in CT.
Posted inGovernment
CT looks to strengthen data privacy protections
A law would establish stronger protections for consumer data — an issue made more urgent as the pandemic drove much of life and work online.
Posted inJustice
Lamont names Joan Alexander to Supreme Court, Hope Seeley to Appellate
Gov. Ned Lamont on Wednesday nominated Joan K. Alexander to the Supreme Court, Hope Seeley to the Appellate and 11 others as new trial judges.
Posted inPolitics
Bob Stefanowski would evaluate policy allowing trans athletes in girls’ sports
Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski questioned CT’s permissive policy on transgender athletes without proposing a change.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
CT plans a green hydrogen path, but it has potholes
Green hydrogen is considered carbon-free from start to finish, but the technology is expensive, and the product is hard to transport and use.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Unionizing workers deserve protection from threats and harassment
Captive audience meetings are held in the vast majority of union organizing campaigns and management frequently threatens workers in these meetings. A new bill before the Connecticut legislature would change that.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Costs still rising on State Pier project
The State Pier project deal is viscously unfair to Connecticut’s taxpayers.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Connecticut can transition to EVs without hurting consumers
Tesla, Lucid and Rivian can sell their cars in Connecticut — right now — under the same laws that all other auto manufacturers must follow. But they choose not to.
Posted inHealth
Union warns five nursing homes of plans to strike on April 22
The union also has filed unfair labor practices with the National Labor Relations Board against management in the five nursing homes.