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Burdening small businesses

 May 19, 2013; Updated: 11:33 pm

Most reporting on the proposed Marketplace Fairness Act - a law that would impose sales tax collection on Internet sales - fails to capture the bureaucratic impact this will have on commerce. I suspect those writing about the proposal...

Benghazi facts disturb this Navy Seal mother

 May 14, 2013; Updated: 5:38 pm

As the mother of a Navy SEAL, the deaths of a U.S. ambassador, two former SEALS and a fourth American public servant have deeply disturbed me. So I watched the recent U.S. House of Representative's committee hearing on Benghazi with personal...

Not all people with disabilities oppose assisted suicide legislation

 May 12, 2013; Updated: 8:22 pm

One of the writers of this commentary has several disabilities, including terminal cancer. Both of us are long-time activists in the disability rights movement. And we both would consider supporting assisted suicide legislation, if written with...

Fairness requires responsible spending

 May 5, 2013; Updated: 3:15 pm

Two Connecticut think-tanks - the liberal Connecticut Voices for Children and conservative Yankee Institute for Public Policy - are having quite an intrastate smackdown over the fairness of the state's tax code.

At issue in the dispute is...

Our political system needs a hard reboot

 May 5, 2013; Updated: 3:15 pm

Some reflections on recent events in the nation.

The blast in West, Texas: Whether it be this situation or prior examples, including mine disasters, business interests are undermining the ability of the EPA to safeguard our citizens. And...

A smart investment at Avery Point

 April 28, 2013; Updated: 12:26 am

The state legislature's Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee recently announced that $15 million would be set aside for the Avery Point Campus as part of the $1.5 billion authorized for the University of Connecticut under Next...

Stigma of mental illness deepens post Sandy Hook

 April 28, 2013; Updated: 11:38 pm

For nine years now, the Connecticut chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness has sponsored a walk to fight the stigma that many still attach to mental illness.
By coming out en masse, we...

Consultant hire good outlay for Groton City

 April 24, 2013; Updated: 5:25 pm

David Collins' April 21 commentary, "Groton paid publicist $63,000, had it wrong from his headline to last line.

First, the City of Groton never spent one cent on a publicist, the municipally owned Groton Utilities did. At the time Groton...

Litigation best chance to improve education in New London

 April 21, 2013; Updated: 11:48 pm

In a recent editorial, ("Court shouldn't set school funding policy," April 14), The Day lashed out at the CCJEF v. Rell lawsuit, accusing the courts of "acting as social engineers and legislators, rather than sticking to their role of addressing...

Pure greed drives food engineering

 April 21, 2013; Updated: 11:50 pm

The April 14 commentary, "Ignorance hinders food science advances," by Albert Kausch, would have been more enlightening were the subject "capitalism run amok."

The issue of the patenting of life forms for profit is an ethical, moral and an...

'Grave misgivings' led to Maynard's 'no' vote

 April 18, 2013; Updated: 6:04 pm

David Collins' April 14 column, "Why Doesn't Andrew Maynard Just become a Republican," questions not only my motives for a vote on the "gun bill" but my commitment to the Democratic Party and its principles. Criticism for this vote is something I...

Blame voter apathy

 April 14, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

Polls continue to show the public views Congress as dysfunctional and unlikely to effectively address many of the economic and social challenges facing the nation. The core of the problem may be how we elect our congressmen. Gerrymandering of...

Don't forget past efforts to spur NL development

 April 14, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

While New London Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio can take credit for landing the National Coast Guard Museum "fish" on his watch, he cannot take the credit for being the one who started the fishing trip. It took the work of many people, big and small,...

Keeping the promise of education reform

 April 14, 2013; Updated: 11:42 pm

The progress made by last year's landmark education law must be protected, despite the tough choices legislators face on the state's budget.

Last year's education reform law - which received nearly unanimous support from state legislators...

Ignorance hinders food science advances

 April 14, 2013; Updated: 6:04 pm

There is a wide disparity between the public's knowledge of DNA and biotechnology and the actual science and its applications. The greatest challenges in biotechnology are not technological, but that of public perception, as biotechnology...

Magnet school critic missed imporant points

 April 8, 2013; Updated: 11:32 pm

I am not a superintendent of schools, which might be an appropriate person to respond to Tim Egan's March 29 commentary, "NL school choice won't help students," but maybe someone working in the trenches of New London can provide a useful...

Road to ruin: Why spend another decade building Route 11?

 April 7, 2013; Updated: 12:28 am

Like a plague of locusts, the notion for completing Route 11 to Connecticut's shoreline appears every few years in The Day, and requires an appropriate response.
This time, the notion is an imposition...

Weight of governance crushes human spirit

 April 7, 2013; Updated: 12:25 am

I love to backpack, surf, hike, and climb. When I'm not able to engage in these pursuits, I sometimes find myself watching video of others adventuring in beautiful, remote locales. It helps me to hold on to some of those joyous and...

Stop this epidemic of sleazy conflicts of interest at Capitol

 April 4, 2013; Updated: 4:59 pm

Last week I testified before the General Assembly on a bill that would make it a crime for a public official or state employee to receive more than $1,000 from a state contractor, public employee union, or lobbying firm.

I referred to these...

New London's 'chance to seize the moment'

 April 3, 2013; Updated: 11:04 pm

New London Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio delivered his State of the City address Monday. The following are excerpts from that speech.
A year ago, amidst a historic transition in our government, I reported...

Assisted suicide is no way to promote public health

 March 31, 2013; Updated: 10:18 am

Imagine driving across the Gold Star Bridge from Groton to New London and seeing a person trying to jump off the bridge and commit suicide. Would you stop and try to talk the person off the bridge? Or would you stop and help the person...

Compassionate aid in dying is a fundamental right

 March 31, 2013; Updated: 8:54 am

As a lawyer practicing in southeastern Connecticut for more than 25 years, I often meet with clients to talk about estate planning and end of life issues such as advance health directives and wills.

Wisdom and spirituality may yet save human race

 March 31, 2013; Updated: 10:50 pm

Astronomers have started looking into deep space for planets that could conceive and sustain life as we know it. When they do so, they particularly look for two elements: air that can create an atmosphere to insulate and protect the...

NL school choice won't help students

 March 29, 2013; Updated: 5:38 pm

I would like to commend The Day on its interest in the state of the public schools in New London; however the very strong editorial endorsement March 24 of the plan to "magnetize" the elementary schools was a misguided, poorly considered...

Ten years after

 March 24, 2013; Updated: 4:33 pm

The invasion of Iraq succeeded in removing Saddam Hussein,

but at what expense for Iraq, the Middle East and U.S. policy?

When the Bourbon monarchy was restored in 1815, the French diplomat Talleyrand is reported to have said of the...

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