CT Public Pension fund investments surge more than 13%

Michael Katz Connecticut Pension Funds Surge More Than 13% For all three funds, the top-performing asset classes were emerging markets and equities. Three of Connecticut’s major public pension funds in the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds (CRPTF) reported returns…

Racial disparities in how police use tasers:

Shock and Law: Police & Taser Use in Connecticut On Aug. 7, 2015, Matthew Russo, a 26-year-old Hartford man, died after being shocked with a Taser four times by Hartford police. After an investigation, a report from the state’s attorney…

Regionalism makes sense but…The devil is in the details

Has regionalism’s time finally come? TOM CONDON | writes about urban and regional issues for the Mirror In one of his recent meetings with residents of Hartford’s suburbs, Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin observed, as many have before, that if Connecticut…

Community Colleges – Key to fair society

Community college agenda: The endgame is a fair chance society Gena Glickman, Ph.D. | Manchester Community College President The American Association of Community College’s “Community College Agenda for the Trump Administration” is a blueprint for implementation of critical national higher…