First Lady Cathy Malloy interrupted an impromptu interview Wednesday at the two-day conference she and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy are co-hosting, Reimagining Justice, to say goodbye to a friend, Tracie Bernardi. The two women hugged, and Bernardi said, “I love you.” They met years ago on Malloy’s visit to prison. Bernardi was doing time for murder.
June 14, 2017
Posted inHealth
Health insurers skewered for again seeking double-digit rate increases
The stakes are even higher this year because the state Insurance Department’s final decision on the rate requests will influence whether the two remaining insurers on Connecticut’s health insurance exchange, Access Health CT, return in 2018.
Posted inJustice, Politics
Blumenthal, Democrats sue to force Trump to disclose foreign deals
WASHINGTON — Sen. Richard Blumenthal wants a federal court in Washington, D.C., to compel President Donald Trump to ask Congress for permission when he benefits from business dealings with foreign governments. The lawsuit is based on the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which requires the nation’s presidents to clear any gift or payment from a foreign leader with Congress.
Posted inPolitics
Malloy: Baseball field shooting ‘reason why we need…saner gun laws’
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told reporters in Hartford that the shooting of U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., and four others “is a reason why we need, quite frankly, and I’ll say it, saner gun laws in America. I’m thankful no one has lost their life.” The Newtown Action Alliance also made a new call for stricter gun laws.
Posted inMoney
Advocates for disabled urge broader sales tax to avoid drastic cuts
Advocates for people with disabilities called Wednesday for maintaining current services to the disabled by broadening the sales tax to increase revenue rather than making the drastic cuts proposed in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget.
Posted inPolitics
CT lawmakers react in horror to shootings at GOP baseball practice
Updated at 3 p.m.
Washington – Connecticut lawmakers, for whom gun violence has a personal edge because of the Newtown shootings, reacted with shock and horror at a gunman’s attack on a Republican congressional baseball practice early Wednesday. Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the House majority whip, was among those shot. The gunman, who was identified as James Hodgkinson of Illinois, also was shot and later died.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
One teacher to others: Our voices can shape Connecticut education
In some ways, it can be easy as teachers of young children to understand the power our voices have in our students’ lives, and in their self-esteem. Our words can urge a child to struggle through a difficult problem, or shape the way they see themselves. Despite this, we often forget the power we can wield outside the four walls of our classroom.
Posted inCT Viewpoints, Talking Transportation
Is flying safe?
I hate to fly. It’s mostly an irrational fear of turbulence and crashing… little stuff like that. But in recent years, the whole experience of air travel has turned from uncomfortable to unbearable.
Posted inNews
Danbury, now hatless, gets a second wind
Danbury – once the Hat City – has parlayed a good location, population growth, a history of economic development efforts, a sturdy tax base and generally efficient administration into a city that is farther along in reinventing itself than a number of other Connecticut cities once dominated by single industries.
Posted inHealth
18,000 now use medical marijuana in CT
The Department of Consumer Protection’s (DCP) Board of Physicians recommended seven new conditions this year to the 22 already approved for treatment with marijuana.