Emails between Robert Hyde and the House Foreign Affairs Committee indicate he failed to give lawmakers all information that he promised them.
February 24, 2020 @ 7:28 pm
Posted inHealth
Lawmakers advanced a bill barring new religious exemptions to vaccines. Here’s what it would do.
As thousands of angry parents protested Monday, lawmakers advanced a bill eliminating the religious exemption to vaccines.
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Legislators who opposed tolls want transit spending in their districts
Lawmakers who helped block Gov. Ned Lamont’s plan to increase funding want the state to invest millions on transit improvements in their districts.
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Female inmates tell Murphy education is a line to outside world
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy visited York, the state’s only prison for women, to collect information on the Second Chance Pell pilot program, a federal grant that aims to reduce recidivism by expanding access to education for incarcerated people.
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With CT tolls debate on ice, fiscal issues loom large
Connecticut’s tolls debate may be over for now, but that lull only means Gov. Ned Lamont and legislators now must resolve a daunting list of fiscal challenges left in its wake.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
‘Fore’ more years for our Duffer-in-Chief?
In addition to playing politics, American Presidents play golf, hole after hole after hole. It is one of the few bipartisan activities left standing. Dwight D. Eisenhower hit them straight down the middle often, as did his successor, John F. Kennedy, who is purported to have been the best golfer to inhabit the White House. The nation’s biggest golfer, however, was William Howard Taft, who weighed in at more than 300 pounds.
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The New Connecticut Declaration of Inter-Dependence
Because of the previous course of human events in Connecticut, it has become necessary for we Connecticut citizens to dissolve the existing
completely artificial municipal borders which have separated us from one another and to assume among the powers of the earth that having 169 separate and disparate cities and towns was a really bad idea.