One postwar planning mistake was situating highways so they blocked cities from their waterfronts, as happened in Hartford and Middletown.
Getting back to the river: A tale of two Connecticut cities
Posted inEducation
A surge in pandemic Fs raises old concerns about credit recovery. Here’s how schools could make it better.
A startling rise in failing grades during the pandemic was one of the most worrying signs that students were struggling.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Photos: Skateboarding in the summer heat
The break in the weather was good news for local skateboarders at the South Windsor Skate Park on Wednesday.
Posted inSteady Habits
PODCAST: Would shrinking the Supreme Court help build consensus?
In part two of our conversation, Linda Greenhouse considers whether a smaller, even-numbered future Court might help build more consensus.
Posted inPolitics
They came to America for protection. Now they want to stay.
Jose Villegas lives in Hartford, safe from the dangers of El Salvador but without the peace of a permanent resident.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Time, like our freedoms, should not be wasted
There seems to be something like consensus within the international scientific community that time began almost 14,000 billion years ago when they believe the Big Bang occurred. That is an almost completely incomprehensible number for a human being to digest. Think about it! Our standard measurement for ONE year is how long it takes for […]
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Solutions to the rapid increase in crime
After a contentious 2020 election, we have hundreds, if not thousands of Black Americans getting killed in our inner cities without anyone finding out who killed them and no one seeming to care.
Posted inHealth
Hospitals hope mandates will boost workers’ stagnant vaccination rates
Most hospitals will require workers to be vaccinated against COVID by Sept. 30, even though workers’ vaccination rates have slowed.
Posted inMoney
Lamont gives 7.5% raises to managers, matching 2017 union deal
The managerial raises reflect a realization it doesn’t always pay to take a promotion in state service in Connecticut.
Posted inMoney
Lembo: Extra pension payments mean big savings now — and down the road
By depositing $1.2 billion extra into its pension funds now, the state hopes to save $2.75 billion over 25 years.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Lock up cars, not kids
As a spate of car thefts captures the news, there are calls to extend the time that the state keeps kids in detention. Incarcerating children is a common knee-jerk reaction to youth crime – though we know for a fact that locking kids up generally makes their behavior worse.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Crime as political campaign fodder; misinformation, too.
From all appearances it seems that crime politics have returned to center stage in our state for the first time in more than a decade. In recent days an assortment of politicians have offered surprising and mostly uninformed critiques of Connecticut’s laws and policies. I hope to add some facts and data to the conversation.
Posted inPolitics
Lamont’s emergency powers extended through September
Lawmakers extended Gov. Ned Lamont’s emergency powers through Sept. 30, making Connecticut among the last states under a COVID-19 emergency.
Posted inPolitics
Lamont’s final tally: 235 bills signed, four vetoed
Gov. Lamont vetoed two bills that appeared to violate federal law and one that would sell land below its value.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
The truth is out there about the real D.C. budget-buster
Long before spreading falsehood online became a career opportunity and a political strategy, many many people believed falsities and disbelieved truths. Even so, there is one perennially asserted and believed untruth about American politics that puzzles me.