Rep. Rosa DeLauro slammed the new reporting requirement, saying it’s an attempt by the Trump administration to ‘hide’ COVID cases.
July 15, 2020
Posted inMoney
GOP leader: Lamont is spending when he should be hiding CT’s credit card
Gov. Ned Lamont wants to spend $550 million on capital projects, a move one called “irresponsible” given CT’s fiscal woes.
Posted inHealth
Battered by losses, hospitals seek $450 million from the state
Many patients have returned, but hospitals are still struggling from months of lost revenue and added expenses.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Census 2020: Don’t let an undercount put Connecticut children at risk
The last six months have been filled with unprecedented national activity. We remain firmly in the grip of a global pandemic, we face ongoing civil unrest and our election season is quickly approaching. Another critical event is happening this year: the 2020 Census.
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Equity must be focus of Connecticut’s new ‘normal,’ school reopening plan
From the tragic loss of more than 4,300 of our neighbors, to the economic insecurity felt by hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residents, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused heartache, stress, and anxiety across all four corners of our state. To put it simply, the pandemic has altered our “normal.” But among the severe changes and disruptions it has caused, the pandemic has, sadly, not altered the long-standing, painful inequity that continues to be part of Connecticut’s “normal.” In fact, the pandemic has only made the state’s inequity worse, particularly when it comes to education.
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Connecticut’s upcoming primary election should be audited. Will it really be?
After every general election and primary, Connecticut law requires a post-election audit. Such audits are intended to provide justified confidence in our elections, that errors were not made, and that machines have not been hacked. However, unless something is done, this year the audits will be by far the weakest, least credible since audits were initiated with the adoption of optical scanners in 2007.