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…
June 5, 2017 at 12:58 pm by Josh Bivens and Hunter Blair for EPI Trump’s infrastructure plans are empty promises not backed by money It has been declared “infrastructure week” by the Trump administration. On the face of it, that should…
Bail reform wins final passage in Senate By: Mark Pazniokas and Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror Bail reforms intended to ensure that indigent defendants are not jailed simply for lack of resources won final passage in the Senate early Wednesday…
Rep. Jim Himes on CNN’s “New Day.” (Screengrab: CNN) Taylor Rogers – Yahoo News – June 6, 2017– Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., didn’t mince words Tuesday when he responded to President Trump’s provocative tweets following last weekend’s terror attack in London. “What Donald Trump…
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…
House passes new limits on solitary confinement By: KEITH M. PHANEUF | June 6, 2017 — CT Mirror The House of Representatives unanimously approved a measure late Monday to prohibit incarcerated minors from being placed in solitary confinement. The measure,…
Religious Leaders Arrested At State Capitol While Protesting Budget Cuts Rebecca Lurye — Hartford Courant — Six clergy and seminary members were arrested inside the Capitol on Monday while protesting the state’s planned budget cuts to health care, education and other…
Gimme! Coffee baristas officially vote to be unionized JUNE 1, 2017 BY GUEST CONTRIBUTOR _ The Ithaca Voice ITHACA, N.Y. — Seventeen Gimme! Coffee baristas voted today, concluding at 9 p.m., by a vote of 16 to 1 in a National Labor…
By Todd Szoka owner of: Sunshine Cycle and Run, Colchester — CT Mirror ViewPoint — As the owner of a small business in Colchester, I support paid family and medical leave as a critical safety net that will support workers…
Dan Haar: New Long-Term Savings Figures For State Employee Concessions Show It’s A Solid Deal Dan Haar – Hartford Courant Finally some good news for Connecticut’s battered fiscal and economic picture: Early numbers on the long-term effect of the…