Advocates say capable workers are being overlooked by companies that have jobs to fill — even as many raise concerns about a labor shortage.
CT aims to build disability workforce ‘pipeline’
Posted inHousing
Advocates: Bill to study affordable housing law is a veiled attack
CT legislators heard public comments on a bill that proposes a study into a key affordable housing law, a move that worries some advocates.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Three things you can do today to advance women’s equity
Can you imagine the power of unleashing all female potential? Can you imagine a world that provides access for all women to thrive and succeed?
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Raising women’s voices in Connecticut
Raising of our collective voices to advance women, particularly women of color and others marginalized in our communities, is now proving to be particularly challenging.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Blockade Russia’s oil exports now
What if we imposed an immediate and complete blockade on Russian oil exports and asked the citizens of the world who cherish the cause of Ukrainian freedom and democracy to voluntarily reduce their energy consumption?
Posted inPolitics
At a hearing over school construction scandal, the scandal was off limits
A legislative hearing explored new controls over school construction while avoiding allegations involving Kosta Diamantis
Posted inEducation
Education Committee approves Sheff v. O’Neill settlement
Facing pressure, members of the Education Committee reluctantly approved measures addressing the Sheff v. O’Neill settlement agreement.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Proposed Killingly power plant dealt another blow
Two rulings in recent weeks spell the end of the line for the proposed Killingly natural gas plant, as far as ISO-New England is concerned.
Posted inMoney
Unions: Losing public jobs will worsen CT’s race and gender pay gaps
Labor unions say state government’s shrinking workforce will exacerbate race and gender disparities, particularly involving wages.
Posted inOpinion
Response to crisis in Ukraine proves racism prevails, even in times of war
International sympathy for Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion should apply to all refugees, no matter their color or country.
Posted inTalking Transportation
Saving money on gasoline in Connecticut
The Russian invasion of the Ukraine has thrown the world energy markets into turmoil, raising the price of gasoline in Connecticut to more than $4 per gallon.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Money for property tax reform is there for the asking
Like buried treasure, the money to reform the state’s property tax system is there for the asking. All it will take is some fortitude and digging.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Time to start rationing fuel
We should have been on a climate emergency status years ago, but it’s ever more necessary with the growing war over Ukraine.
Posted inLong Story Short
PODCAST: Tom Condon on Fredric March and the Ku Klux Klan
Last fall Margaret Miner was skimming a New York Times article about how the University of Wisconsin had changed the names of two university theaters, in Madison and Oshkosh, because they had been named for an alumnus associated with the Ku Klux Klan.
Posted inJustice
CT film icon Fredric March tarred by tenuous tie to the Ku Klux Klan
March’s name was removed from two theaters because he belonged to a Ku Klux Klan honor society in 1919. But that’s hardly the whole story.