State officials are feeling the pressure to share CT’s swelling budget reserves with struggling households and businesses.
One year’s CT budget surplus could top entire rainy day fund
Posted inInvestigations
At least 4 towns now subject to subpoenas in school construction probe
The subpoenas to Groton, Tolland, Bristol and Hartford seek records of communications with Kosta Diamantis and school building documents.
Posted inHealth
Health providers: It’s nearly impossible to attract new physicians to CT
Connecticut lawmakers are considering a bill that would make some short- and long-term investments in physician recruitment and retention.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Decades of data support medical aid in dying
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.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
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.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Assisted suicide: A dangerous practice based on false claims
Assisted suicide is a political policy which undermines a doctor’s role as healer.
Posted inMoney
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.
Posted inHousing
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.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
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?
Posted inCommunity Editorial Board
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.
Posted inTalking Transportation
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?
Posted inCT Viewpoints
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.
Posted inLong Story Short
PODCAST: Budget guru Keith Phaneuf breaks down Connecticut’s cash problem
Simply put, is state government too flush with cash?
Posted inMoney
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?