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Child support system: a form of apartheid

In family court we routinely make one parent superior to the other with terms like custodial parent and financially with terms like obligee and obligor concerning child support. On its surface child support seems like a perfectly reasonable idea,...

Reproductive health services for all

Thank you for the July 1 editorial on the Supreme Court's recent decision on abortion and your prediction that the battle will rage on, “

Mail-in balloting works well

After living in Tacoma-Pierce County Washington for 10 years, my wife and I moved to Connecticut in 2015. Pierce County was the last county in Washington to change to all mail-in ballots for all elections. Although Washington is a Blue state like...

Let public decide about the fate of statues

Pressure to remove time-honored statues of important figures of American history reveals we are in an era of reevaluating our national heritage and the meaning of being an American. When based on rational debate, such introspection is much needed...

Nice op-ed, but here's a couple of corrections

As a fellow history buff, I must correct two errors in Nick Fischer’s otherwise excellent op-ed in The Day, “Schools must broaden...

Stand up for freedom, return Trump to office in 2020

The level of vitriol and hate towards President Trump is beyond belief. These attacks are coordinated, orchestrated, and based on ideology, not fact. The president had early life advantages others did not have. He did not live off the advantages...

Murphy on target at COVID-19 hearing

As a communication scholar, I believe that Senator Chris Murphy, D-Conn., hit the nail on the head at Tuesday’s Senate coronavirus hearing. He explained why slowing the spread of COVID-19 is in large part a rhetorical problem. As Murphy...

He is speaking out after recent troubling letters

One of the lessons of Black Lives Matter demonstrations is that white people need to speak and to act against racism. In this spirit, I am responding to two letters that appeared in The Day on June 29. Both rationalize the system of oppression...

Travelers golf event benefited important work

As co-founders of the Connecticut COVID-19 Charity Connection (4-CT), we are extremely grateful to be one of the charities to benefit from this year’s Travelers Championship that took place June 25-28. The 2020 Championship was just the...

America can't sustain more Trump division

President Trump's prospect for re-election is sinking faster than the Titanic, especially in the battleground states where he is now losing badly to Joe Biden, the presumptive Democrat nominee, who is resonating among Americans looking for a...

U.S. must learn from rest of the world

In recent days, I have been shocked and scared by photos in The Day showing people close together without masks. I am 74 and male, which means I have a double bullseye on my back. Areas in America where masks are more worn have declining COVID-19...

Poor parking treatment won't be forgotten

On Saturday evening, June 20, we left Kokomo’s in Old Lyme. We had a thoroughly enjoyable dining experience celebrating my wife’s retirement. Low and behold we discovered our vehicle on a flatbed ready to be towed away. We had...

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