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Investment in electric grid infrastructure is critical to economic progress How public dollars can upgrade broadband and the grid at the same time As the country enters a new era, it finds itself behind in the infrastructure that will shape its future: broadband and the electric grid. A lack of investment in the wires and cables we take for granted threatens our economic growth. Fortunately, we can maximize the impact of public dollars through coordinated upgrades of our electric system and broadband infrastructure. Our electric grid is inadequate for increasing amounts of renewable energy ...

Recently, State Rep. Roland Lemar introduced a bill in the General Assembly that seeks to prevent coastal towns from using access and parking fees to exclude non-residents from public beaches. Critics charge that these exorbitant fees for non-residents are designed to prevent certain “undesirable” groups from being able to enjoy access to public outdoor spaces in towns they could otherwise not afford to live in. The proposed bill comes in the wake of a heated 2020 summer that saw numerous shoreline towns use the pandemic to enact temporary bans on nonresidents at town beaches, and acti...

Monthly CT VIEWPOINTS -- opinions from around Connecticut On pot issue, lawmakers and their constituents are not served by the same old scare tactics. Lawmakers and their constituents are not served by the same old scare tactics. Brendan Ruberry Contrary to the organization’s name, (“Smart Approaches to Marijuana”) what it advocates is not a smarter approach at all: it’s a paranoid, puritanical one — couched in clever but unsound reasoning — that is not far from old-school prohibition. Will Jones writes that “Heavy users of today’s 9...

Both child tax credit and context are critical to lifting children out of poverty As a pediatrician who has devoted a career of more than five decades to promoting children’s optimal health, development, and well-being, I am excited that U.S. Rep. DeLauro’s bold, relentless, and persistent push for expansion of the child tax credit is finally receiving the bipartisan attention that it deserves.  The prestigious National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded that the expansion of the credit could reduce childhood poverty by half, leading to better outcomes. Paul Dwork...

The pandemic fog is beginning to lift Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org Aldin Winslowet-Alps, 82, (right) gets the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from paramedic Don Hart (left) at the Vernon Senior Center. Almost a year has passed since COVID-19 shut down the world, sent our economy into crisis, and placed our children in front of computers instead of loving teachers. Sue Hatfield Most of us know someone who has passed away from COVID-19 or has had to watch an elderly relative spend their last days in isolation. We are all tired. We want to get things back to normal.