In this country, and certainly in Connecticut, the ultra-wealthy and many corporations pay the lowest tax rates – sometimes nothing at all – whether it’s through regressive rates, or loopholes, evasions and corporate giveaways that end up making our budget problems worse.

I am a public health graduate student who studies very bad news. A rash of six-week abortion bans has broken out across the country, the future of Roe v. Wade is uncertain under a conservative majority Supreme Court, and Planned Parenthood is under constant attack from the federal government. There has not been much to celebrate lately in the field of reproductive health policy. But Connecticut is on the brink of passing legislation to protect reproductive health access in a way no other state has done before.

The article on Tweed-New Haven Airport published in the CT Mirror and New Haven Register earlier this week raises very important points regarding climate change and resiliency. The Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority (THNAA) shares these concerns and we have been putting time, energy and resources into this challenge.

Though it should occur more frequently throughout the year, Teacher Appreciation Day is a wonderful time to celebrate teachers. Every spring, we pause and reflect on the central role teachers have played in our lives, as well as in the lives of over 500,000 students attending public schools across Connecticut each day.

This month students across the state hunker down to take standardized tests measuring their own and their school’s achievement. It’s not news to anyone who lives in the nutmeg state that Connecticut has an achievement gap. As professionals who have dedicated our careers to promoting children’s health and well-being, we are mindful of the many factors that influence achievement. To narrow the achievement gap, we need to step back and look at all of the ways that we can support children’s health, development, and well-being and integrate and organize them so they work for families.

Few legal terms have found their way into the popular lexicon the way “due process of law” has. When someone complains that he is being denied “due process,” the person is generally expressing a sense of unfairness about the procedures that were, or will be, used to ascertain the truth of charges of misconduct against him.

Recent headlines in CTMirror read, “Builders, trades, launch new ad to push for tolls on CT highways.”  The Home Builders and Remodelers Association of Connecticut (HBRA-CT) does not count itself among this coalition nor has it endorsed the implementation of tolls on our highways.  

Last December Elias Roblero, was in the Meriden Court to answer charges of driving under the influence. The hearing was short; the state prosecutor and the public defender agreed that Elías was a family man with no criminal history and did not deserve jail time. The judge concurred, imposing an 11-month suspended sentence and two years of probation. His wife, 15-year old daughter and 17-year old son were waiting for him in the hallway. Elías only needed to check with the parole office, sign some documents, and be released to his family. He never came out.