Category: Opinions & Ideas

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CRISIS! A Tiny Minority Needs Your Help!

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…

Spending Cuts and Trickle Down (On) – DO NOT WORK

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…

Austerity is NOT the Answer to CT’s Budget Crisis

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,…

Attack on Free Speech and Academic Freedoms

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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Don’t Dilute Integration Goals

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…

I Was Arrested — Demanding a Moral State Budget

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…

Profits Greed and Nuclear Power – Potentially Deadly

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…

Fair Share Taxation — What A Concept

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…