Gov. Ned Lamont must deliver a plan Monday outlining how he would use billions of dollars in federal pandemic relief.
April 23, 2021
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After Lamont pans tax hikes on the rich, key Democrats push back hard
Progressive Democrats say Gov. Ned Lamont must invest more in poor communities and households to get a new budget deal.
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The Connecticut Mirror honored with 12 awards at press convention
CT mirror won a first-place award for its coverage of the COVID pandemic, and reporters took seven other first-place awards.
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Nursing home strikes loom large in CT as strike votes are underway
Initial union balloting at 33 Connecticut nursing homes overwhelmingly favors a strike, and staff at 11 more homes will vote soon.
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Why it took days for one CVS store in CT to stop vaccinating New Yorkers
Cars queue up at the state’s first rapid Covid-19 testing center in New Haven April 17, 2020, run by CVS Health and the state of Connecticut. In February at a CVS in Waterford, a number of New Yorkers improperly received vaccinations, documents show. By the time state officials arrived at a Waterford CVS on Feb. […]
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From UHart faculty: All Hawks deserve our support
Last week college sports fans in Connecticut were roiled by some startling news. The University of Hartford has been privately considering a move from NCAA Division I to Division III. Grappling with the financial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, the University commissioned a “feasibility study” from the consulting company CarrSports. The confidential report concluded that the “current Division I-funding model is not viable and cannot achieve the goal of becoming more self-sustaining.”
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Lessons learned: Education is not enough to combat anti-vaccine propaganda
The Connecticut House of Representatives just passed legislation to end the religious exemption for the school vaccination requirement ( HB6423). The Connecticut state Senate must act quickly to do the same. If passed, Connecticut would require medically able school children to receive vaccines as recommended by the CDC.
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Biden ought not overuse the term ‘infrastructure’
President Joe Biden’s redefinition of the word “bipartisan” is wise, even necessary. Measures that have majority support among regular folks throughout the country– say, universal background checks for firearms purchases– have “bipartisan” support because lots of citizens of both major parties approve: that makes sense.
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Please let restaurants and bars recover from the pandemic. Oppose HB 6502
For the first time in almost a year, we can see a light at the end of the tunnel of the COVID-19 pandemic. But that does not mean we are out of the tunnel yet – and these coming months will be critical for the recovery. That is why this is not the time for the Connecticut General Assembly to push the polystyrene ban (HB 6502) they seem on track toward passing.