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Why I am a Progressive legislator On Earth Day, some legislative colleagues and I joined about 40 young environmental activists at Hartford’s Riverfront Plaza for a “Meet Your Legislator” event hosted by the youth-led Sunrise Movement. I got there a bit early, and, standing on the stage beneath the awning, watched the young activists walk up the wooded path along the Connecticut River with garbage bags slung over their shoulders. After a morning spent picking up all manner of human detritus – soda bottles, discarded plastic gloves and beer cans — they were eager to cool off and talk...

Everybody in, especially those left out Systemic racism permeates Connecticut's policies on prisons in many ways. It's time to fix that. In the wake of the spate of gun violence massacres, resuming again with deadly consequences, we are at a familiar crossroads: Do we revert to our usual, American individualized ‘othering,’, or do we reconcile that there is no ‘them’- only ‘us,’ that we refuse to claim? State Rep. Anne Hughes I’m campaigning to reframe the American ‘us’ from some of y’all to “ALL of us all!” It’s time to claim we all belong to this place, this promis...