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Connecticut's long-running casino story takes an ominous turn

 June 16, 2013; Updated: 12:21 am

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, which not only legalized Indian casinos, but also spurred the legalization of non-Indian commercial casinos, triggering an explosion of casino gambling across the...

New rules for new warfare

 June 16, 2013; Updated: 12:34 am

With the nomination of Professor Samantha Powers as U.S. ambassador and the appointment of Susan Rice to serve as the president's national security advisor (no Senate confirmation required), national security and human rights will be among the...

New London Board of Ed obstructs, not instructs

 June 9, 2013; Updated: 11:03 pm

By KATHLEEN MITCHELL

In his May 29 guest commentary - "New London board acted courageously" - Mongi Dhaouadi went far beyond mere embellishment and distortion and turned truth on its head. Virtually every...

True to Constitution, fair to victims' families

 June 5, 2013; Updated: 5:38 pm

No one can deny the suffering inflicted by youthful offenders on their victims and the victims' families, which was highlighted in The Day's May 23rd article on legislation concerning juvenile parole ("Families of victims despair at idea of...

TRASH TO CASH

 June 2, 2013; Updated: 4:33 pm

New London can save hundreds of thousands of dollars every year with sensible recycling

By LAURA NATUSCH

and AUNDRE BUMGARDNER

Everyone knows recycling is good for the...

Razing Cohanize would be a mistake

 June 1, 2013; Updated: 4:59 pm

Waterford is about to lose a historic structure, the 1923 neo-classical revival-style Cohanzie school, which followed Waterford's one-room schoolhouse model, in place since the town's inception. The Cohanzie district dates to between the years...

Renzulli vote showed appropriate vigilance

 May 31, 2013; Updated: 5:25 pm

Given recent headlines, I am writing to clarify that the New London Board of Education did not reject the Renzulli Academy or educational services for gifted students. Rather the board rejected a proposal that was prematurely put forward for...

New London board acted courageously

 May 29, 2013; Updated: 11:39 pm

If there was any doubt about the New London Board of Education's decision to not extend Superintendent Nicholas Fischer's contract, the May 23 meeting was clear evidence that change is not only needed, but necessary.

Cap isn't to blame, state spending is

 May 29, 2013; Updated: 4:59 pm

Democrats in Hartford want to increase spending, but they've run into an obstacle: the state's constitutional cap on spending. Their spending plan would blow right through it.

What to do?

Well, they were planning to pass legislation...

Skeptical about Mystic schooner plan

 May 28, 2013; Updated: 6:17 pm

Those reading The Day's coverage about the attempted purchase of schooner Mystic should be hearing the same alarm bells that I do.

Chris German, the founder and CEO of Connecticut Community Boating, paints a picture of simplicity. He told...

What to do with all this spent nuclear fuel?

 May 26, 2013; Updated: 6:17 pm

In the wake of the devastating nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima plant in 2011, many worried Americans began to ask whether our nuclear fleet here at home could fall victim to the same catastrophe. While we've done some important work to...

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...

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