Officials with the state’s health insurance exchange are moving enrollment fairs, community discussions online.
October 2020
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Vote to protect LGBTQ+ rights
LGBTQ+ rights are being threatened. Two weeks ago, Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas lashed out at the same-sex marriage ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, the case which legalized gay marriage, on July 15, 2015.
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Risk and reward: Flying the Trump flag in Connecticut
Trump voters are passionate. So are Never Trumpers. Both groups are troublesome for GOP candidates.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
PURA orders utilities to maintain payment plans to delinquent consumers
State regulators ordered utilities Friday to continue offering payment plans to all consumers, regardless of hardship, through early February.
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Not just Trump. Connecticut Republicans make suburban zoning an election issue.
The message: urban cities would take over housing development in suburban towns if Democrats are elected.
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‘Everything related to the environment is at stake’
As America heads into Election Day, environmentalists are warning that time for turning back climate change impacts is running short.
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New Haven coliseum site needs a neighborhood
Strategically, the Coliseum site in New Haven may be the most important land in the city. With concurrent efforts to erase the gash of Route 34, cutting the city in half, the Coliseum site carries the potential to ignite whole new neighborhoods infilling to downtown, to the train station, to the Hill and hospital/research campus, and to Wooster Square. It’s the hub of a potentially dynamic wheel. The future core of a new New Haven, coincidentally in the same location as the original core.
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The reprivatization of Fannie and Freddie will blunt improvement of racial wealth gap
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac perform a significant role in the housing market, controlling nearly half of the $10 trillion U.S. home loan market. The Trump administration has vowed to end the Fannie and Freddie conservatorship relationship, directly causing mortgages to become more expensive and harder to receive. This will destabilize the economy and pause any improvement in the racial wealth gap.
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Preventing the spread of COVID-19 is everybody’s responsibility
Winter is on the horizon and already the specter of another viral resurgence looms before us. Dr. Anthony Fauci is already warning of a “difficult situation,” as the number of infected people in the United States has started trending upward again.
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Echoes of fascism today in the United States
It is ironic that I who escaped fascism in the form of Nazism in 1939 would now live in a country where the far right is rapidly gaining support and could become an American Fascism force to reckon with in these days leading up to a Presidential election. In the words of Nobel Prize recipient and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, “Democracy, once lost, may never come back. And we’re much closer to losing our democracy than many people realize.”
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CT’s daily COVID positive test rate surges past 6%; Lamont threatens to re-impose business restrictions
Connecticut’s daily coronavirus test rate soared beyond 6% on Thursday.
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PURA will meet Friday to consider renewing ban on utility shut-offs
State utility regulators will hold an emergency meeting Friday to consider renewing key moratoriums on electricity and other service shut-offs.
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Advocates press state regulators to extend moratoriums on power utility shut-offs
With temperatures dropping, advocates for Connecticut’s vulnerable are urging state regulators to extend moratoriums on electricity and other utility shut-offs.
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Bolstered by the power of incumbency, CT Dems in Congress favored for re-election
All five Connecticut U.S. House lawmakers are favored to win re-election, although a couple are facing tougher competition than expected.
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‘Ballads for Ballots’ intended to help women find their voices
A choral community of women in Eastern Connecticut, Choir Matrix and Women of Concinnity, have been turning out a get-out-the-vote series of video recorded pieces called “Ballads for Ballots.” The pieces, composed by women and using text from women writers and activists, are all about women finding their voice in a nod to the centennial of the 19th Amendment.