Senate Bill 4 is a comprehensive housing bill that will provide relief and make long-term investments that drive down costs through increased protections for renters, more affordable housing, and a program to lower energy costs for residents.

Currently, Connecticut requires a cumbersome and expensive certification process that presents unnecessary obstacles to the teaching profession.

This is not the same bill that has “died in committee” in the past. It merits a fresh, more enlightened, and more comprehensive assessment than it was allowed in the past.

We have the young students here in Connecticut and across our great country to get that done. All we need are more opportunities that other states are investing in.

Strategic use of adjunct faculty is a way to provide diversity and expertise that is not available from full-time faculty. It is not a way to run an entire system that serves our most diverse constituencies and communities.

I’m sickened by the long-standing inequities in our state’s broken public education system and the elected leaders who allow it to stay that way because they do not have any skin in the game.

It’s time for Congress to translate its investigations into concrete action when it comes to the practices of PBMs.

As an evidence-based field of discipline, safety science expands the scope of learning beyond an individual case to a systemwide comprehensive analysis.

Governor Lamont is doing what he can to protect his constituents from the plague that is gun violence. However, the federal government needs to implement similar policies on a national basis.

If you’re a Jew, anti-Semitism you run into is the worst. Similarly, if you’re a legislator in a democracy and you have to deal with people who are committed to ending that democracy, that has to be just about the worst, too. 

Many of Connecticut’s children are suffering from poor oral health, and the state is falling behind in its goals to meet national and state oral health improvement plans.

College students are clearly being targeted to engage or continue to engage in gambling.

I appeal to the General Assembly to go much further than the administration has done — to boldly address the root causes of the inequities that have plagued our state for decades.

Our state needs to reconcile with the uncoordinated and poorly planned response to the opioid crisis.

“This bill will not only protect young women and girls from the dangers of child marriage but more importantly support them in what they truly want to do with their lives.”