Nothing like a pandemic to get Connecticut’s underfunded local and regional health districts an influx of cash.
COVID money goes out to underfunded local health departments
Posted inJustice
AG William Tong: $8.3b Purdue Pharma settlement is ‘unacceptable’
The deal was slammed by Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, who is suing Purdue Pharma in state court.
Posted inPolitics
Trump demands attention from suburban voters. Down-ballot Republicans wish he wouldn’t.
The missing Trump sign at a suburban Republican headquarters was a sign of the times.
Posted inCT Viewpoints, Talking Transportation
A Connecticut WPA project for transportation
Here’s a possible solution to Connecticut’s transportation and infrastructure problems and the state’s current unemployment woes: a WPA style building project. You do remember the Works Progress Administration, right?
Posted inCT Viewpoints
State must center health equity in Connecticut’s health information exchange
If we are to truly understand the problem and effectively address the health inequities exacerbated by the pandemic, we need high quality, real-time data.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
The Board of Regents — penny wise, pound foolish, and increasingly unjust
If the Board of Regents of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities is to fulfill its stated vision … ” and if it is to honor the immense trust placed in it last year at this time by the Connecticut State Conference of the NAACP, it must employ a method other than the timeworn, self-defeating one of austerity with which to confront the budgetary shortfalls that the current pandemic has caused.
Posted inMoney
Surging tax receipts take a huge chunk out of state’s projected budget deficit
The improved fiscal picture increases the likelihood Gov. Ned Lamont can avert major tax hikes next spring.
Posted inPolitics
Larson-Fay debate Zoombombed with racial slurs, obscene and homophobic comments
The attack is just one of the most recent in a string of Zoombombings of political, academic and religious events.
Posted inHealth
‘Out of sight, out of mind’: few testify in Whiting Task Force public hearing
The Whiting Task Force blocked out eight hours for a public hearing. They only needed one.
Posted inHealth
At 3% positive, CT reaches another dangerous COVID-19 milestone — and much faster than the last one
Connecticut’s daily COVID-19 infection rate reached 3% Monday, just one week after hitting its highest mark since early June.
Posted inHealth
During the peak of the pandemic, deaths in Connecticut increased by 55 percent. COVID-19 accounted for almost all of them.
COVID-19 accounted for almost all of the 55% spike in the number of deaths during the peak of the pandemic.
Posted inEconomic Development
COVID leaves Connecticut’s theater scene seeking a way forward
It’s unclear when it will be safe for theaters to reopen – or whether audiences will return once they do.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Consent and Connecticut law: Ensuring criminal justice keeps pace with today’s culture
Our cultural understanding of sexual violence has grown exponentially in the last decade. College students brought national attention to the epidemic rates of sexual violence on campuses by using Title IX to address their school’s poor response. And the #MeToo movement brought discussions of sexual violence into the mainstream, making “victim blaming” a part of our common lexicon. Time and again we have witnessed how power dynamics allow men to perpetuate sexual violence, causing women to remain silent.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Equality requires a shift in power, nothing less will suffice
We have often been told to let the system do its job and justice will prevail. We now know that has never been the case for people who look like me. But, in so many ways, it’s time for that to change. The recent non-action on Breonna Taylor and a summer of clear and blatant disregard for Black life has made one thing clear: racial equality requires a radical shift in power.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Vote!
While much attention has rightfully been paid to how to vote during the pandemic, we have been thinking about why it is so important to vote in the first place. In a democracy, the individual act of voting itself is a crucial step.