It is the right time that both Gov. Ned Lamont and the legislature need to focus on enhancing tax exemptions on retiree income.
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Ending child marriage is necessary to protect and empower CT girls
“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.”
Connecticut must invest more to prevent tobacco use
Connecticut needs to do more to promote cessation of smoking, especially when the state has received tens of millions in settlements from tobacco companies in past years.
Without funding, how can we implement mental health programs schools have been fighting for?
By passing H.B. 5003, we are helping our students academicallyand providing them with social emotional resources that will stay with them for a lifetime.
Lawmakers should codify the inherent human right to shape one’s last days
Aid in dying is now the law in 10 states and in Washington, D.C., without social chaos or an increase in related murder.
It is time for meaningful traffic stop reform in Connecticut
Traffic enforcement of low-level offenses means that limited police resources are going toward ineffective strategies which could be better spent on what does work to prevent fatalities on our roadways.
HUD’s low standards are the real problem at Branford Manor
Even with these changes, there’s more work to do for Branford Manor residents and so many others in our country that rely on support from HUD to access safe and affordable housing.
The Clean Slate bill must be enforced to end injustice in CT
Black individuals are also almost nine times more likely to be incarcerated than white individuals.
American support for Israeli policy and military must end
American policy and American acknowledgement of real conditions must change. American financial support for the Israeli military must be terminated.
Patients’ premiums should pay for dental health, not insurance company overhead
Plainly put, there ought to be a law requiring a minimum amount of dental premiums to be spent on patient care.
The slippery slope of physician-assisted suicide is coming to Connecticut
This bill is just the beginning of a large social trend that decades from now will result in the killing of the disabled, those suffering from severe psychiatric disorders and the indigent elderly.
Children who live in apartments are children, too
We should reject anti-family, anti-homes rhetoric and acknowledge that children who live in apartments are entitled to a great neighborhood and fantastic education.
U.S. dangerously disingenuous on Ukrainian conflict
The current American policy is dangerously, and unaccountably, open ended and someone needs to step outside of the group think, up top, long enough to turn this dangerous conflict into a more manageable situation for the American people.
Washington’s duplicity contributes to a failed Israel/Palestine peace policy
By failing to take meaningful action to hold Israel accountable for expanding Israeli settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan, Washington undercut a cornerstone of its professed Middle East peace policy.
Shared parenting presumption would put domestic violence victims and their children at risk
While there are parenting schedules which create opportunities to further the best interest of children, they sadly also create endless opportunities for abusers to continue to control the victim by fear, threats, intimidation, and litigation abuse.

