Connecticut should strengthen the community benefit requirements for its non-profit hospitals to protect vulnerable communities.
Hospital community benefit requirements: stronger is better
Posted inCT Viewpoints
The most effective way to make Connecticut more affordable is housing
The high cost of housing not only dampens our ability to increase our tax base by growing our state’s population, it also severely strains existing low- and moderate-income households. Creating more housing and making housing more affordable is the most powerful way to grow our economy.
Posted inMoney
Report: State workers’ raises would cost almost $1.9 billion over four years
The package, which would force CT to draw almost $300 million from its reserves, is expected to come under fire from Republican lawmakers.
Posted inEvents
WATCH: The Future of News: A Conversation on Change in Local Journalism
CT Mirror Executive Editor Elizabeth Hamilton, former Hartford Courant reporter Daniela Altimari and UConn professor Amanda Crawford joined John Dankosky on April 20, 2022 for a conversation on the future of local journalism. Watch here.
Posted inHealth
CT physicians call for Medicaid expansion for undocumented children
Expanding access to health care, particularly for children, has been a priority for majority Democrats in the legislature.
Posted inPolitics
3 Democrats seeking to be CT treasurer begin a sprint to the convention
Connecticut Democrats now have a three-way field for the state treasurer: Erick Russell, Karen Dubois-Walton and Dita Bhargava.
Posted inMoney
CT officials vote to increase state control over West Haven’s finances
The Municipal Accountability Review Board voted to tighten its grip over West Haven’s spending even as the city’s leaders objected.
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Reckoning with racist violence
Mary Townsend Seymour, Connecticut state organizer for the Anti Lynching Crusaders in the 1920s, would be pleased to see the recent signing of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act by President Joe Biden.
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Support Connecticut farmers: exempt agriculture from highway use tax
Connecticut’s farmers deserve a break from the soon-to-be implemented highway use tax on trucks.
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.
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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.
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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.