Undocumented immigrants are expected to make up a larger share of Connecticut’s uninsured population next year, putting new financial pressures on safety-net hospitals that provide emergency care to everyone, state and national health experts predict. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) provides coverage options for legal immigrants, but those in the U.S. illegally cannot apply for […]
December 11, 2013 @ 12:00 am
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Rocky flight: Sikorsky, other helicopter makers worry about future
Washington — The paragraphs were slipped into a massive defense bill by a Mississippi senator. Part assertion, part plea, they are aimed at the Pentagon, and more than anything else, they reflect the worry that Sikorsky Aircraft and other helicopter manufacturers feel about their future. Rather than investing in new technologies and funding a new […]
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Are CT schools safer after Sandy Hook?
Editor’s Note: In a series of stories this week, The Mirror is looking at how the shooting at Newtown changed Connecticut. Millions of dollars have been spent in the past year better protecting students from threats coming from outside school buildings. Since last December, when 26 children and educators were killed in Newtown, at least […]
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More parents want their children to skip CT standardized tests
The State Department of Education reports that a “greater number of parents [are] desiring to remove their children from participation in the statewide testing program.” In previous years only a handful of parents statewide sought an exemption from the state and federal requirements that every student be tested in math, reading and writing in Grades […]
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A law to restrict who can live by schools, day cares?
A bipartisan duo of state legislators has teamed up to announce they plan to push legislation that would prohibit registered sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of schools or day care centers — a move that would restrict these offenders from livng almost anywhere in Bridgeport, Hartford and New Haven. “The last thing a […]