The outgoing chair of UConn’s board of trustees is urging Gov. Ned Lamont to pass over his vice chair, Thomas D. Ritter, and pick trustee Shari Cantor, “a unifying, non-polarizing force on the board.”
April 11, 2019 @ 6:52 pm
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F-35 lobbying war unleashed by Pentagon’s bid to buy rival fighter
While the Pentagon says it’s not a competitor to the F-35, the rebirth of the F-15 could cost jobs in Connecticut.
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Paid family and medical leave: Too important to outsource
It has been 30 years since the General Assembly enacted Connecticut’s Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). That law, in combination with the federal FMLA passed four years later, provides some Connecticut workers with the right to unpaid leave upon the birth or adoption of a child, in order to care for a seriously ill child, spouse or parent or because of the worker’s own serious health condition. When the law passed, supporters said no worker should have to choose between their job and their health, or the health of their family.
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Connecticut is letting some of its communities down
As my home, Hartford has made me into the individual that I am today. Because I have been fortunate enough to rise to an office that allows me to serve the people that made me who I am, I am truly a product of my environment. Growing up in Hartford not only gave me a local perspective, but I also gained a more inclusive perspective because of the experiences I had in my youth, which were unique from any other area of Connecticut. These diverse experiences I speak of range from gentrification, to the wage gap, to mass incarceration.