The agency will examine whether Manson’s restrictive housing practices, which keeps juveniles locked in a cell for 23.5 hours a day, violates their constitutional rights.
November 4, 2019
Posted inPolitics
Supreme Court declines to stop Bridgeport election
The result was hardly a surprise as courts generally are reluctant to intrude in elections in the absence of overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
State PFAS Plan Calls For More Water Testing Following Two Accidents At Bradley
The plan also calls for more testing of public drinking water — and the possibility of a take back program for PFAS-containing firefighting foam for state agencies and municipal fire departments.
Posted inEconomic Development
Navy cuts number of EB Virginia-class subs in new contract
Electric Boat wanted the Navy to include 10 subs, and possibly 11, in the so-called “Block 5” contract. But the Navy agreed to only nine.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Soaring power shut-offs in Connecticut prompt searching discussion
The number of Eversource customers disconnected for nonpayment has doubled in the past four years. Consumer advocates want to know why.
Posted inJustice
After 22 years, educating incarcerated youth still a challenge
The state started trying to improve education in juvenile detention in 1993. It’s still trying.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Tolls not the way to move Connecticut forward
To our state legislators: As you are well aware, Gov. Ned Lamont is reportedly set to release a new transportation plan in the near future. Although we have yet to see the actual plan, news reports in the media indicate there are some positive changes in the administration’s overall approach to Connecticut’s future plans for transportation.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Let’s keep West Hartford moving forward
For the past three years, it has been my honor to serve as the Mayor of West Hartford, the town I grew up in and the community where I raised my four sons. West Hartford is a Connecticut success story.Â
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Our fake president
How fake is our president? Let’s count the ways. Remember his campaign pledge to “Drain the swamp?” Fortune Magazine recently reported that in less than three years our president “has named more former lobbyists to cabinet-level posts than his most recent predecessors did in eight, putting a substantial amount of oversight in the hands of people with ties to the industries they are regulating.”
Posted inCT Viewpoints
No longer a path to the middle class
Student loan debt relief changed my life. I didn’t get relief because I was smart, kind or even savvy. I got it because I was lucky. I paid my way through undergrad with scholarships, grants and a few loans. My graduate school debt burden was an entirely different story and made it hard for me to meet basic expenses like rent and food.