As a retired board-certified emergency physician and as a son who lost his mother to cancer last November, I have a unique perspective on death.
Decades of data support medical aid in dying
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Connecticut lawmakers should support medical aid in dying
Here’s why the Connecticut legislature’s Public Health Committee should vote to approve the medical aid in dying bill.
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Assisted suicide: A dangerous practice based on false claims
Assisted suicide is a political policy which undermines a doctor’s role as healer.
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Lawmakers to vote Wednesday on a gas tax holiday in Connecticut
Along with a three-month suspension of CT’s 25-cents-a-gallon tax on gasoline, a second one-week sales tax holiday on clothing is planned.
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CT eviction filings on track to reach highest number in years
After the state stopped accepting new applications for rental assistance, eviction filings in Connecticut have risen.
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Two identical bills promoting rabbit processing in Connecticut?
Why would the state of Connecticut move in the direction of allowing farms to raise and slaughter up to 1,000 rabbits?
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Vaccine mandates in higher ed: Legal and justified
The legal status of COVID vaccine mandates at universities has been affirmed on numerous occasions by the courts, starting last July.
Posted inMoney
CT companies to lawmakers: Fund child care
Electric Boat, Bigelow Tea, Hartford HealthCare are among CT employers calling for boost to social safety net spending on child care.
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Ride sharing in Connecticut is back!
How’d you like to save thousands of dollars in commuting costs by car? And at the same time cut the number of vehicles on our highways?
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Investing in Black futures in Connecticut is not charity. It’s justice.
It is not an act of charity to invest in the communities that have been purposefully, historically, and currently disinvested. It is an act of justice.
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PODCAST: Budget guru Keith Phaneuf breaks down Connecticut’s cash problem
Simply put, is state government too flush with cash?
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CT’s government was once broke. Is it now holding too much cash?
After two years of a pandemic that battered educational and health care, businesses and households, should CT be spending more to help?
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House progressives urge Biden to support caregiving workforce and execute other Build Back Better priorities
The Congressional Progressive Caucus released a slate of policy priorities they believe President Joe Biden can implement by taking executive action, including canceling federal student loan debt, lowering drug prices for insulin and inhalers, and creating a path for child care workers to unionize. The proposals echo components of the languishing Build Back Better agenda, Biden’s sweeping $1.8 […]
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Long delays at Connecticut’s Freedom of Information Commission leave public in the dark
A review by Connecticut Public found it usually takes the commission around eight months to issue decisions in contested cases. And once the pandemic hit, that time shot up to more than a year.
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CT lawmakers push bill to forgive unemployment ‘overpayments’
The bill would allow thousands of people to avoid repaying unemployment benefits to the state and federal government.