Nurses are feeling the burden of working short-staffed day in and day out. When will this end?
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Provide bathrooms for Waterbury LGBTQ+ students
Safety may not be guaranteed for LGBTQ+ students in Waterbury while performing the basic human act of using the bathroom.
Another legislative session –and much ado about too many of the wrong things
When can we stop making ever more laws, which make out daily lives more expensive or more complicated?
No app for fairness to Uber and Lyft drivers
Rideshare drivers and app delivery workers find themselves working longer hours and being offered absurdly cheap fares.
Move the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2022 forward
Whether you are uninsured, have employer-sponsored insurance, or have Medicare, you will likely incur inflated prescription costs.
Enact unclaimed property reform. The state owes us
If the goal is to prevent money from ending up in the wrong hands, the state must recognize that its hands are the wrong hands.
Prevent rising healthcare costs by stopping healthcare mergers
Although CT has some of the strongest anti-merger laws, residents are victimized by the continued trend toward health care monopolization.
Connecticut needs federal help to resolve the child care crisis
Without adequate federal funding, child care prices will keep going up, programs will continue to close, and our families – and the economy – will continue to suffer.
Passing the Vision Zero Bill will save lives
Since the legislature committed to Vision Zero two years ago, traffic-related fatalities have increased, from 302 in 2021, to 385 deaths last year. We are heading in the wrong direction.
Time to fix the CT income tax on retirees
The income cliff and marriage penalty on Connecticut retiree income taxes are neither logical nor fair.
Help grow a more diverse teaching workforce in CT by removing the EdTPA
By adding more hurdles requiring more out-of-pocket expenses, policymakers have exacerbated the symptoms of stereotype threat, contributing to the lack of BIPOC educators entering the field of education.
Nursing is rewarding, but can also be dangerous
Workplace violence in healthcare is a serious problem that we face every day.
The U.S. must end its ‘pay-to-slay’ incentive in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
If we want to save lives, then ending the rewarding and incentivizing of Palestinian rejectionism and terrorism is a necessary first step.
Community health workers play key role in advancing equity in CT
Community health workers are the glue in ensuring people can get the care and services they need to be healthy.
Procedural justice is at the heart of democracy
A former law professor of mine once stated that what some people called “legal technicalities” should really be viewed as “tiny constitutions,” designed to protect the rights of everyone,



