Sharon needs officials dedicated to prioritizing the needs of our schools to ensure the best outcomes for our community.
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The U.S. Supreme Court and their BBFFs
Do you have a billionaire sugar daddy? Me neither.
The scales of justice have shifted
What do seven Connecticut tax fraud offenders not have in common with Hunter Biden?
Connecticut needs to enforce Windows hardening techniques
Connecticut IT officials have up with a cybersecurity resource center for small businesses and safe practices guidelines for the community.
Smaller towns are not helping solve CT’s housing crisis
The acuity of the state’s housing shortage bears repetition. We need 89,000 affordable homes immediately.
Want more campus diversity? Then improve the K-12 minority education pipeline.
If the goal is to increase college and university diversity, then educators must improve number of Black and Hispanic students flowing out of the K-12 to college pipeline.
Pregnancy and childbirth should not be deadly for Black women in CT
Connecticut’s pregnancy-related mortality ratio between 2015 and 2019 was 14.2 deaths per 100,000 live births — higher than the national rate.
Greenwashing CT’s Green Bank
Setting the Green Bank up to finance large waste management projects has created a Green Bank that is no longer green.
Lamentation for the death of CT’s 12 community colleges
I have written OpEds in the past for the purpose of advocacy, but this one functions as a wail of grief: Connecticut’s 12 Community Colleges are no more.
Better transparency, public input, needed on PURA’s vegetation management group
There are many experts from Tree Conservancies who would readily give their time to serve on the Working Group and the PURA facilitator should make changes to the group’s composition.
Weicker: ‘Nobody’s man but yours’
“Nobody’s Man But Yours.” When I ran against Lowell Weicker in his bid for re-election to the US Senate, we thought we could turn that campaign slogan against him. It didn’t work.
Connecticut is failing people with autism
Autism is not ruining people, but other people who do not understand our struggles have ruined many autistic people’s lives.
Landlords hold the key to reducing housing inequity
The state should promote more participation in the Housing Choice Voucher program.
Older Connecticut residents deserve better customer service from the Social Security Administration
Last year, almost half of the 151 million calls to the SSA’s national 1-800-number and field offices went unanswered.
Gun control puts people at the mercy of the government
In a recent series, Riju Das delivers many cogent arguments for more gun control, but neglects to posit a convincing argument countering the reason our founding fathers enshrined gun ownership in our Constitution.

