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Local Involvement: Update in Killingly Connecticut
This past Wednesday, there was a big breakthrough in the fight to provide quality mental health care for Killingly, Connecticut students. The Killingly Board of Education voted to approve a contract with Community Health Resources to provide such services. Community Health Resources is based out of Windsor, Connecticut, and contracts with 36 school systems to…
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Local Events: A Town Hall with my Congressman
Last week, I attended a town hall meeting at a community center in Windsor, Connecticut that was put on by my Congressman, John Larson. I wrote a post a few weeks ago about a politician who actually cared about a real issue facing the country, instead of bitching on social media about the latest culture…
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Elections in Other Countries: Finland’s Election
Hello there. This is my first post in a series that I will call Elections in Other Countries. I always love elections, and Election Day in the United States always fills me with excitement along with a touch of anxiety. When it comes to primaries, I follow those closely as well, and will even pay attention to…
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When Politicians Do Good Things: A Congressman who cares about issues.
My latest edition of When Politicians Do Good Things is about Rep. Jay Olbernolte. He is a California Republican, and he is considered an expert when it comes to Artificial Intelligence (AI). This post does not highlight any specific accomplishment he achieved, but is showing (and commending) his focus on an issue that will affect…
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The War in Iraq: A raw, personal story about the travails of a soldier.
As most of you may, or may not know, this week marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the War in Iraq. We salute, celebrate, and venerate our veterans in all sort of manners, but we rarely hear, or want to know, the real aspects of what these veterans did, and went through as…
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When Politicians do good things: Being open about mental health challenges
A few weeks ago, newly elected Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania checked himself into Walter Reed Medical Center because of depression. He had struggled with depression on and off most of his adult life, but his depression flared up recently (Full disclosure, I went to the hospital when I was a teenager for anxiety). Fetterman…
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Local Involvement: An update in Killingly CT
Since I last wrote about the effort to establish a Mental Health Center in the Killingly, Connecticut school district, there have been some updates. Unfortunately, the updates do not involve any sort of progress. In late December, the Killingly Board of Education tried to stall an inquiry with the State Board of Education by filing…
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Improving the State of the Union address
I was watching the State of the Union address and observed President Biden parrying with G.O.P representatives as they were heckling and booing him over Biden’s claim that some in the G.O.P were advocated cuts to Social Security and Medicare. I watched that exchange with wry amusement and it made me think of the rowdy…
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Reducing inflammatory opposition
Last week, the Arkansas State Senate passed a bill that would ban Drag Shows near places where there were children. The authors of the bill said that they were getting death threats. My first reaction was “Good”. A minute later, I reconsidered and concluded that while many people (and myself) have the opinion that the…
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Unsung Hero’s on Capitol Hill
This post will be about Capitol Hill. No, not the Speaker Drama, there has been plenty of coverage about that. I am going to write about congressional staffers. In late 2021, an Instagram page called Dear White Staffers started to go viral amongst people who worked on Capitol Hill. Created by an anonymous Capitol Hill Staffer, people…
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