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Psychologist: Why suicide and medical aid in dying are truly different As a board-certified clinical psychologist for the last four decades who has counseled both patients who were dying and those who wanted to end their life prematurely via suicide, I can tell you unequivocally that there is no comparison between the two. But don’t just take my word for it. Jeff Gardere The American Association of Suicidology, a suicide prevention, medical research association whose membership includes mental health and public health professionals, issued a position statement in 2017 concluding: “[S]uici...

Send educational funds where they are needed most Yehyun Kim :: CTMirror A classroom in suburban Farmington. Students here have had the opportunity to return to school in-person, full-time for months. As a widowed mother of two wonderful boys, a senior at East Hartford High School and a sixth grader at Sunset Ridge Middle School in East Hartford, I support SB 948 An Act Addressing Education Funding and Racial Equity in Connecticut. I work as a Pre-K, paraeducator at the Early Childhood Learning Center, also part of East Hartford Public Schools. In 2015, I moved from Puerto Rico to East Hartfo...

Monthly CT VIEWPOINTS -- opinions from around Connecticut Five to 10 cents a gallon: A small price to pay for meaningful reduction in pollution Not so long ago, I was able to pay $2 per gallon at a Shell station when using the discount rewards from shopping at Stop & Shop. Now, only a few months later, the market price of gas is $2.90 at the pump. Whether the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) adds five or ten cents to the cost of a gallon of gas, the cost is miniscule compared to the deleterious effects of our state’s continued gas guzzling ...

CT Department of Education testifies to lack of capacity, expertise on dyslexia Grassroots movement aimed at raising dyslexia awareness and informing policy makers on best practices. Days before her new appointment, Interim Educational Deputy Commissioner Charlene Russel-Tucker filed testimony opposing bipartisan legislation House Bill 6517, An Act Implementing the Recommendations of the Task Force to Analyze the Implementation of Laws Governing Dyslexia Instruction and Training, citing lack of capacity, expertise, and funding. In June, 2019,  a Dyslexia Task Force was appointed by the Conne...

Connecticut needs voting reforms Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org A resident drops an absentee ballot application into a box outside West Hartford Town Hall during the last election season. Like 650,000 Connecticut residents, I voted by absentee ballot last November. Like me, these voters might be shocked to learn this method of voting is not available in future elections. Connecticut has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the nation built into its Constitution. These restrict people to a single day of voting (the first Tuesday in November) and limit use of the absentee ballot option to pe...