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Monday, September 09, 2024
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Monday, September 09, 2024
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OP-ED
Recent reports warn about the spread of hydrilla, a fast-growing aquatic weed threatening rivers and lakes throughout the state, should concern anyone who enjoys water re...
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In August, Eversource and United Illuminating customers received a shock when they opened their electricity bills. A 2017 legislative deal to support the Millstone Power ...
I am writing to clarify my opposition to the zoning change and consequent proposed development of land at the base of and behind Williams Street in New London, the so-cal...
There has never been a more consequential presidential election in more than two centuries. The country is woefully divided, morale is low, and the two candidates both se...
Our current and proposed sky-high electric rates is the result of the regulatory agency PURA (Public Utilities Regulatory Authority), straying from a fundamental tool in ...
My grandmother moved to Windward Village Apartments in Niantic after spending her life raising her family modestly in Long Island. She wanted to live affordably near her ...
A significant increase hit your electric bill right in the middle of summer. I share your frustration, not only with the increase, but with partisan bickering over the ca...
Trying to give up single-use plastics can seem like a fool’s errand, with nearly every imaginable product you can buy ensconced in plastic packaging.
“We live in a societ...
So, what’s up with my property taxes this year? That is the most frequently asked question around the city the last few weeks after residents began receiving their fiscal...
“Why is my electricity bill so high?”
I hear this repeatedly as I talk to my constituents in the supermarket, at the ball field and in the emails that arrive in my inbox....
“You’ve come a long way, baby.”
That was the advertising slogan in 1968 promoting Virginia Slims, a cigarette marketed exclusively for women. Half a century has passed, ...
I’m fully aware that this country is deeply divided in their views of President Joe Biden. As a millennial voter and progressive Democrat, I’ve certainly been unsatisfie...
GUEST OPINIONS
Connecticut is approaching a crisis point for electricity supply to our grid —expected as soon as 2030. Planned retirements of fossil fuel-burning generators along with a...
As a longtime earth scientist, I noted this past winter a number of admittedly anecdotal observations spanning both Connecticut and the northern tier of the Western World...
The clothes a loved one wears may seem insignificant when they dwell among the living. But once they make the journey into the next life, those same clothes take on a mea...
Over the years, Day columnist Mike DiMauro and I have agreed on some things and disagreed on others. His recent column about the Travelers Championship protesters is one ...
Pirate ships were painted gray for a reason. They blended into the shadowy area of the ocean along the horizon, where an inky sea met a smoky sky, a hint of a threat that...
This year’s budget process has been a particular challenge. Revaluation and the real estate market have shifted the grand list toward the residential property owners in u...
I recently returned from a 10-day visit to Israel, to be with my family for Memorial Day at the grave of Aviv Atzili, my cousin’s husband, who died on Oct. 7 defending h...
A recent trip to view the first-ever utility-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, not far off the coast of Connecticut, recalled a boyhood dream to one day emig...
I worked hard on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in 2020. I made close to 200 calls. I wrote letters, convinced friends to vote, worked on a small local campaign. I tho...
If the Car Crash Fairy offered you a deal that would lower your odds of getting in a car accident, but the trade-off was that any accidents you did get into would be far ...
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