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Opinion: Sanders delegates fight for public ed, civil rights in Dem platform
Sarah Darer Littman is an award-winning columnist and novelist of books for teens. A former securities analyst, she’s now an adjunct in the MFA program at WCSU (and as such is an AAUP member), and enjoys helping young people discover the power of finding their voice as an instructor at t hee Writopia Lab. While…
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Opinion: Dan Malloy’s rough landing
Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced on Wednesday the re-establishment of transatlantic flights from Bradley International Airport, this time a very enticing Aer Lingus route directly to Dublin, Ireland. It was a rare bright spot…
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Opinion: Less snark, more solutions needed to get Connecticut growing again
Suzanne Bates is the policy director for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. She lives in South Windsor with her family. Follow her on Twitter @suzebates. In the two years after the 2011 tax hikes, the state lost an average of 38 people a day to other states, and $5.2 million a day in taxable…
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Opinion: We still need jobs; state lawmakers shouldn’t stick their heads in the sand
Suzanne Bates is the policy director for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. She lives in South Windsor with her family. Follow her on Twitter @suzebates. After a rather rosy presentation on the state’s economy at the first meeting of the new “Commission on Economic Competitiveness,” Joe Brennan, CEO of the Connecticut Business and Industry…
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Opinion: Is Malloy the second coming of Moses?
Suzanne Bates is the policy director for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. She lives in South Windsor with her family. Follow her on Twitter @suzebates. When Robert Moses, then commissioner of New York State’s Parks Department, started work on what would eventually become Jones Beach on Long Island’s South Shore, he used a tactic…
