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Health trends. Schools. Politics. Money. Trees. (& a bit of whatnot)

  • by Jenifer Frank
  • February 1, 2014
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The week of Jan. 27 through Jan. 31, 2014

The CT Mirror

The week of Jan. 27 through Jan. 31, 2014

To our readers:  If you have signed up for insurance coverage through the new health act, what have your experiences been like?  Good, bad, in-between, we’d like to hear about it.  Please email your brief (no more than 500 words) accounts to health reporter Arielle Levin Becker – alevinbecker@ctmirror.org.  Thank you!

This week —
Important health care trends.  Re-examining two core aspects of education in Connecticut.  Announcements from two Republicans who want to be governor.  A look at Elizabeth Esty’s Obamacare votes.  Election year tax breaks.  A stand by women lawmakers on how colleges should handle sexual assault reports.

If you blinked this week, you missed something.

Here’s a rundown of some of the stories important to Connecticut residents that appeared in The Mirror:

Health 

  • Big changes are happening in hospital ownership. Democratic lawmakers say more oversight is needed.
  • One Connecticut doctor calls the changes an insurer wants to make in the number of doctors in its network just the beginning, in fact: “the first gun fired on Fort Sumter.”
  • There was a (perhaps) close-to-final-chapter on Anthem’s problems with signing up customers.
  • Hartford residents will — finally — get a few days’ access to a free dental clinic.

Women 

  • The 54 women legislators called for changes in how sexual assaults at all colleges are handled.
  • Our reporters show that the gender wage gap in Connecticut is the worse in the region.

Education

  • After hearing wide-spread complaints about the new teacher evaluation system, officials scaled back some of the changes.
  • The GOP and a teachers’ union leader want a public review of the new Common Core standards.
  • A state report says UConn is getting less and less affordable for anyone other than high-income students.

Washington

  • What does one make of Rep. Esty’s votes on Obamacare?
  • The farm bill – which our delegation voted against — hurts needy people in Connecticut and across the U.S.

Environment

  • Some people say utilities are going way overboard with cutting down trees.

Politics / Economy

  • Republicans: Tom Foley declares for governor; Mark Boughton picks a woman running mate.
  • Democratic Gov. and (undeclared) candidate Dannel Malloy hands out tax cuts, makes several other fiscal moves  – and shows he learned a lesson from John Rowland in 1998.
  • Is the state’s economy improving? The numbers are tricky.

AND – The governor asked for it – and he got it:  No less than 1,240 pages of suggested changes in state regulations from Connecticut.  We offer highlights .. and a link to the full list.

Look for full coverage in The CT Mirror next week of  Wednesday’s opening of the 2014 session of the General Assembly.

Have a terrific weekend…

Jenifer Frank
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Jenifer Frank Jenifer, whose work as a writer and editor has won numerous awards, became editor of The Mirror in November 2011. Previously, she was an editor for The Hartford Courant, where she served as news editor, politics editor and, for five years, editor of Northeast, the paper’s Sunday magazine. She has also been an editor at The Day, in New London. She co-authored “Complicity” (Ballantine/Random House), a history book that explored the North’s involvement in slavery. A New York native, she grew up in Stamford and graduated from Trinity College.

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