WASHINGTON — Correcting what Connecticut’s senators called “a serious oversight,” the Obama administration has included New Haven County in a disaster declaration that opened the door to millions of dollars in federal aid to towns hardest hit by January’s massive snowstorm.
May 8, 2015
Eversource and UI electric rates heading for big drop in July
Electric rates charged by Connecticut’s two utilities are headed for major reductions for the six months beginning July 1. Eversource Energy standard offer rates for residential customers will drop by more than one-third, and United Illuminating rates will drop nearly one-third.
Malloy intern application form out of step with 2nd-chance goal
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy continued a statewide tour these past two weeks to promote a series of proposed “Second Chance Society” reforms he had unveiled at Yale Law School in February. But it turns out that, at least in hiring interns, the Democratic governor’s administration is asking some job-seekers in the initial screening if they have criminal pasts, despite a law that bans the practice for most state jobs.
Can Connecticut afford to lose more homecare mental health nurses?
A dear friend of mine who grew up in a severely dysfunctional home once said to me, “You never know what goes on in someone’s home.” I think of that often because, as visiting nurses, we do know what goes on. We bear witness to it, into that intimate bubble of a patient’s home and that of their family, a place where we can interject hope, recovery and a better life. Can society afford to lose such a valuable resource?