When politicians promise they can address fiscal challenges by creating efficiencies, eliminating redundancies, and leveraging expertise, we ought to take notice. A sharp manager might be able to bring a new fiscal discipline to inefficient state agencies. Reality, however, does not always conform to managerial will. Even the best designed plans sometimes fail to meet budget expectations.

A 7-year-old girl does not see the value in the Real Bodies exhibit currently at the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford.

Today, April 2, 2019 is Equal Pay Day, a day that symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.

Taxes are a necessary evil. They are the cost of running our government.  However, raising taxes too much ultimately reduces the total value received.  Many economists believe the paradox that the more you tax, after a certain point, the less total revenue you collect, thus reaching a tipping point.  Legislators should consider “How many taxes are too many; have we reached a tipping point; when do more taxes create diminishing returns and result in lower total tax revenues? ”

Some unlawful acts are considered civil offenses, for which the payment of money to compensate for an injury is sufficient penance.  But other illegal acts are deemed crimes, the commission of which indelibly brands the defendant a “criminal” and exposes him to the loss of personal liberty — jail.

The assurance of safe, high-quality mental health care in Connecticut is at risk: SB 966 has been raised in Connecticut’s General Assembly (CGA). This bill would allow psychologists to prescribe medications. Why is this alarming? It helps to understand the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist.