Senate Democrats unequivocally backed the governor for the first time on transportation funding.
November 26, 2019 @ 9:30 pm
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Watchdog organization calls for ‘drastic change’ at Whiting Forensic Hospital
Another investigation of Whiting Forensic, a state-run psychiatric facility, calls for significant reforms.
Posted inMoney
Connecticut continues multi-pronged battle against federal tax cap
Connecticut and three other states continued their battle Tuesday against federal income tax changes that punish states which voted against Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
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Legislators looking to expand PTSD benefits to more emergency responders
The move to expand PTSD benefits comes just one year after lawmakers reached a landmark compromise to cover police and firefighters.
Posted inTransportation
Lamont, legislators to reopen transportation talks today
Legislative leaders are going to the Executive Residence today to talk to Gov. Ned Lamont about the prospects of passing a transportation financing bill in special session.
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Setting priorities: football vs. survival
About 130 students from Yale and Harvard ran onto the field after the half-time show at the annual playing of The Game between Yale and Harvard to hold banners calling on the two prestigious, almost unbelievably wealthy universities to divest their holdings in fossil fuel companies and Puerto Rican debt.
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The Dalios should heed the lessons of education philanthropy failures
The pledge made earlier this year by hedge fund investor and billionaire Raymond Dalio and his wife, Barbara, to commit $100 million to promote public education and economic opportunity for young people in Connecticut has rightly generated attention, praise, and also some concern.
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The gray area in the ‘qualifying life event’
We have all heard family and friends discuss the qualifying life event, even if you did not know that is what it is called. When two people get married, they have a qualifying life event and have a 30-day period to consolidate health insurance coverage to one company. Having or adopting a child is a qualifying life event, death of a spouse or dependent is a qualifying life event, and loss of coverage is a qualifying life event. What happens when you are a single individual and you have a loss of coverage? This is the gray area.