The DAS needs to follow through with its partial commitment to make CAS a decarbonized, fossil fuel-free design.
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People. Planet. Profit: Businesses support HB6664 as a triple win
CT’s current waste haulers are in the best position to deliver new and expanded services to improve recycling.
It’s important for CT to recognize language-based learning differences
Without appropriate support, students with language-based learning differences and attention issues may fall behind and struggle to meet academic expectations.
They’re smelly, noisy and dangerous. Let’s move away from gas-powered equipment
The bill, SB1145, provides money incentives to businesses that sell battery or electric-powered small off-road equipment like lawn mowers and leaf blowers.
Free CT buses are a step toward transit equity
The state has an opportunity to be a leader in transit equity, take crucial steps towards expanded non-car modes of transit — all while providing a blueprint for other states.
Correcting some misconceptions about domestic abuse
A recent opinion piece about domestic abuse and violence raises eyebrows, and we wish to address some misconceptions.
The Affordable Care Act needs an overhaul, badly
If Americans are to live with health care that does not financially strangle them, then the Affordable Care Act needs a significant overhaul.
Libraries need fair eBook contract terms
Imagine if the Department of Transportation had to pay four to six times more than your neighborhood driveway contractor for asphalt.
The state is ruining a man’s life because it doesn’t understand trauma
It can take a while for large systems, like courts and child protective services, to change how they interact with the people whose lives they touch. But in the time that it takes systems to learn, lives can be ruined.
Drinking at the State Capitol — a cautionary tale
Rep. Robin Comey gives a cautionary tale for us all — not just for our colleagues in the legislature, but for every family in every town.
Predictable scheduling and one fair wage for CT’s tipped workers
The combination of unstable schedules and unpredictable wages imposes a huge burden in the approximately 70,000 tipped workers in Connecticut.
Doctors Day 2023– a legacy to keep
Connecticut has three of the finest medical schools in the country, yet more than half of the graduating medical students leave to pursue their careers elsewhere.
Nietzsche and assisted suicide in Connecticut
Embracing Nietzsche’s worldview is not the way to empower people with terminal illnesses. If you read it in context, it does exactly the opposite.
Ranked choice voting can help heal the civil-military divide
The military needs to fix its relationship with Congress and the Commander in Chief. That healing process must start with how we elect our leaders.
Danbury needs both — increased funding and a charter school
Opponents of the Danbury Charter School argue that funding the charter would take money from the public school system, but that is false.
