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Helping the newest, neediest minority –By David Holahan –East Haddam — In CT ViewPoints — CT Mirror — July 10, 2017 Having just retired and with time on my idle hands, I want to give something back to society, to…
Austerity is the wrong medicine for Connecticut –July 02. 2017 — Op-Ed– By: Bilal Dabir Sekou — More than nine years after the start of the 2007-09 Great Recession, the U.S. economy is not working for most Americans. The recovery…
No Revenue + Program Cuts for CT Budget Will Make You Cry – Here’s Why: People will die – Cuts to social service programs and medical services mean health care will be harder to get for: A. People with disabilities,…
Old Criticisms, New Threats Professors are often lightning rods, but many see a new menace to academic freedom in recent physical threats against faculty members who speak out on race and other issues. Colleen Flaherty–June 26, 2017 — Inside Higher…
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Kevin Lembo: Time for the public option in health care Via CTPost.com The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said this of obscenity: “I know it when I see it.” It’s too late to ask Justice Stewart whether…
Letters in Hartford Courant Consequences Of Segregation Governor Dannel P. Malloy‘s suggestion that the plaintiffs in the landmark Sheff decision appear “as if we’re going out of our way to deprive kids from Hartford of a good education” by resisting…
Legislators Obligated To Pass A Moral Budget House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, speaks to the House on the final day of session June 7. No budget was reached before adjournment.(Jessica Hill / AP) KENT J. SILADI — In the…
Godzilla is really, really hard to kill Steve Thornton — Shoeleather History Project — CTViewpoints — CT Mirror Or… The Millstone around our neck: Dominion’s deadly drive for profits. Nuclear power was once considered “too cheap to meter.” The “peaceful atom” was…
OPINION | MOHAMAD ALI AND ALAN CLAYTON-MATTHEWS — Boston Globe Millionaire tax will put Massachusetts back on track SCOTT EISEN/GETTY IMAGES — Worn at a Tax Day protest in April in Cambridge. WE ALL WANT a future for…