A New Canaan resident was confirmed Wednesday as the 3rd coronavirus patient in Connecticut, the first to contract it locally.
March 11, 2020 @ 5:03 pm
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As coronavirus shutters schools, CT lawmakers press DeVos on fate of students
Lawmakers are questioning how school closures will impact kids who rely on free meals.
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With coronavirus spreading in Connecticut, when is it appropriate to close schools?
Gov. Ned Lamont is letting local officials make the hard decision to close schools — for now at least.
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Legislating in the age of COVID-19: vote by phone, no public hearings
“This is uncharted territory for us all,” said Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven.
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Legislators to break Lamont’s ‘debt diet’ by more than $1B
Lawmakers are expected to approve a two-year, $4.7 billion bond package Wednesday that shatters the governer’s “debt diet.”
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CT budget is poised to weather coronavirus crisis – for now
COVID-19 is certain to pose fiscal challenges for Connecticut — but keeping the state’s books in balance in the short term isn’t one of them.
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Elderly prison population vulnerable to potential coronavirus outbreak
Advocates are worried about the impact of a COVID-19 outbreak on the state’s elderly prison population.
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Time for Connecticut to take the lead in voting reforms
Recently, my 18-year-old daughter took the important first step to engage in our democracy and enthusiastically register to vote. While she did this as soon as she could, many young people do not register when they are eligible, creating long-term implications for our government and society.
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Deceptive advertising for reproductive health care hurts CT women and girls
Amanda* came to see me in exasperation. I could see it in her eyes. At the age of 17, living with her aunt and cousins, she found herself pregnant and with no one to confide in. She said she had been going to a pregnancy resource center, or fake women’s health center, in Hartford for a few months and voicing her desire to have an abortion. She was repeatedly told to return in another week for her procedure.
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Gambling must remain the exclusive right of the Pequot and Mohegan tribal nations
Indigenous people of the Americas (aka “Native Americans” or “American Indians”) across the United States are mostly invisible to us. Even the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribal Nation identities are reduced to their casinos. How many patrons take the time to understand the long, complicated history that culminated in these resorts?