OP-ED
Abbas wanted Biden's attention. Look what it got him.
Biden may be more sympathetic than Trump, but the future of Palestine doesn't rank high on his diplomatic to-do list.
U.S. Senate must pass the ‘For the People Act’
Critics are seemingly so afraid of this bill that their allegations against it have run off the rails into outlandish territory.
Racism and the business of Fox News
Fox's bottom line is insulated from vagaries in the ad market and among viewers by multiyear affiliate deals locked in with pay-TV providers.
If Court rejected vaccine passports, student mandate could fall
Legal experts generally see vaccine passports as constitutional, but we should not assume that this deference to state power would continue under the current Supreme Court.
Was pulling J&J vaccine the right move?
Based on the data we have, it looks like there really is an association between the vaccine and these blood clots.
Yellen picks a fight with global corporate tax dodgers
It’s a race to the bottom as rich-country governments keep chopping corporate tax rates to lure corporate dollars and end up shifting more and more of the fiscal burden onto the shoulders of middle- and working-class taxpayers.
GUEST OPINIONS
Solitary confinement is a form of torture. It must end.
There is no dignity in solitary confinement. There is no justice in chaining human beings for 72 hours straight. There is no gain in locking people away in isolation, without human touch or connection, until they lose their minds.
Lamont plan takes your green dollars, doesn't produce green environment
Connecticut Republicans believe there is a better way to protect our environment and achieve cleaner air without asking Connecticut residents to make painful sacrifices when they can least afford it.
Shift funds from New London police to meet vital needs
We will have to shift some of the funds now used for policing our residents to create the positions and programs needed to support education, recreation, health needs, and social services.
New London council showing its anti-police bias
The council cannot simultaneously claim to want reform in policing while doing absolutely nothing to attain it.
Old Lyme's 'character' includes complicity in formation of structural racism
Passing 'Resolution on Racism' would lead Old Lyme to acknowledge this town’s complicity in the very formation of structural racism. Instead its leaders prefer to ignore the issue.
Connecticut should focus on health value, not creating a state public option
Thinking that there will be substantially lower premiums to the public using the state employee health plan is a false hope.
State digital ad tax could kill small businesses
Businesses all across Connecticut are filled with concern about the new tax on digital advertising the state legislature is now considering.
Where is DiMauro's concerns for cuts in UHart academic programs?
Would that DiMauro’s slavish devotion to college athletics and the magical thinking that accompanies it translated also to academics.
Start planning to make state government normal, too
Many of my colleagues rightly stressed the need to return the legislature to its co-equal role. What's the plan? What are the logistics?
People and their history are the heart of Mystic
The people and their history are the heart of a community. I would hope that here in Mystic, folks would be more aware of theirs.
