Tires on moving cars and in rubber road surfaces shed very fine particles that run off and pollute nearby waterways with microplastics and toxic chemicals.
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More housing equals more taxpayers
Town leaders fail to meet the needs of their own residents when they consistently reject every attempt to construct affordable homes.
It’s time for Connecticut to allow incarcerated individuals to vote
H.B. 5702 would alleviate disparities in the criminal justice system, promote civic engagement, and increase election participation.
Connecticut must raise the minimum marriage age
A new bill in the Connecticut General Assembly, H.B. 6569, would set the minimum age for marriage to 18 and eliminate all exceptions.
Graduation: Just load the refrigerator
Nowadays in our celebrations, we navigate carefully around politics, gender issues, reproductive rights, mass shootings and more.
Police chaplains offer needed support
While the separation of church and state is important, police chaplains offer a necessary support service to Connecticut officers.
The human cost of the SEIU 1199 strike
CT legislature should pass a budget that provides a worthy cost-of-living adjustment to group home workers and staff
Creating opportunities for youth: The promise of Work, Live, Ride
Connecticut’s Work Live Ride bill helps solve our inability to zone for a growing population and a changing economy and climate.
I’m a nurse practitioner: Connecticut is failing my immigrant patients
Connecticut should extend HUSKY Health eligibility to more income-eligible residents, regardless of immigration status.
Transitioning to an electric bus fleet needs a more measured approach
Connecticut is not yet ready to make a complete transition to electric buses. A more measured approach is required to do the transition safely and successfully.
They must die in prison, CT House says.
A proposed bill, passed by the CT House of Representatives, would create the harshest commutation policy in Connecticut’s history.
Connecticut students need to learn financial literacy. Now.
Our education system teaches students how to calculate velocity and torque, how to solve differential equations, and how to write research papers, yet students are exiting high school with little information on how to handle their money.
Energy efficiency is a housing justice issue
It is time for activists fighting to prevent climate change to recognize that their fight, the fight for housing justice and the fight for energy justice are the same fight.
Healthcare deserts in CT are unacceptable: Raise Medicaid rates now
As president of the state’s largest physician association, I urge Gov. Ned Lamont and legislative leaders to put Connecticut on the path to steadily, if modestly at first, grow our Medicaid rates.
FOI-limiting bill would give public universities carte blanche to operate in secret
If good law should be based on good data, as the modern saying goes, then this bill is the antithesis of that.



