Poisons have been harming and killing wildlife all the way up the food chain for a long time and a ban on their use in Connecticut is long overdue.
It’s time for Connecticut to ban rodenticides
Posted inCT Viewpoints
We cannot reform our broken recycling system by burning plastic
Our state environmental agency should not be endorsing a false solution that will put Connecticut communities at risk.
Posted inMoney
Good economic growth report is well-timed for Lamont and lawmakers
Lamont cited CT’s growing economy after presiding over a Bond Commission meeting in which it OK’d $666.9 million worth of borrowing.
Posted inGovernment
Justice Keller takes senior status, allowing Lamont to choose successor
By taking senior status, Justice Christine Keller creates an immediate vacancy, allowing a successor to be confirmed before the election.
Posted inGovernment
CT lawmakers debate bill to automatically return unclaimed property
The state treasurer’s office is advocating for legislation to automatically return unclaimed money to Connecticut residents.
Posted inPolitics
Lamont’s first ad: Accurate on fiscal turnaround, less so on taxes
An incumbent buoyed by a surplus, Gov. Ned Lamont’s first TV commercial exploits Connecticut’s newfound political asset — the budget.
Posted inStudent Voice
Connecticut cannot make the same mistake twice. Ban noncompete agreements.
Banning noncompete agreements would improve the quality of life for workers while ensuring an equitable balance of power between bosses and workers.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Colleges and universities must stop holding transcripts for ransom
The Student Loan Fund calls for an end to the practice of colleges and universities withholding transcripts from students who owe small amounts of institutional debt.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
A return to normal is an upside down idea
By overturning the “normal” values of an upside-down world, we may actually turn the world right-side-up.
Posted inHousing
No-cause evictions in CT more than doubled during the pandemic
A bill would ban evictions without cause in many settings and would extend requirements that rent increases be fair and equitable.
Posted inHealth
Lawmakers not giving up on bill to expand Medicaid to undocumented kids
The bill to expand HUSKY to undocumented children up to 18 failed in committee, but some think it could be included in the budget implementer
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Help me to lower gas costs for consumers
The wording and language of the new law has created a troubling situation that could severely effect pricing and supply on April 1 and into the weekend.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
CT gas tax holiday is causing confusion for locally owned stations
The Connecticut Energy Marketers Association warns that the implementation of a gas tax holiday in the state could lead to confusion, losses for local gas stations and potentially outages.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
At CCSU: More questions than answers on ‘mandatory reporters’
As a historian of the Soviet Union and international communism, I find CCSU’s policy of mandatory reportage profoundly disturbing.
Posted inPolitics
GOP ads attack Lamont’s integrity, and Democrats respond in kind
The early Republican attacks and immediate Democratic counter are harbingers of an ugly rematch of the Lamont-Stefanowski 2018 campaign.