A request to Connecticut's governor and U.S. Senators from a Newtown resident

It's an interesting national debate: When funds are donated to a community after a tragedy, who gets them? Do they go to the families of the deceased? To the injured? To the survivors with invisible wounds? To the community as a whole? Who's to decide?

In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has openly criticized the handling of my community's largest fund, known as the Newtown-Sandy Hook Community Foundation, which was established as an undesignated fund from the start. More.