Gov. Ned Lamont is allowing the evictions moratorium to lapse — while slowing them to buy time for relief payments.
June 2021
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Nation’s first ‘net zero’ hotel takes shape in New Haven
Developer Bruce Becker ‘recycles’ the old Pirelli building into an all-electric and sustainable hotel.
Posted inEducation
UConn board votes to continue planned tuition increase
The $625 increase will boost tuition to $15,030 for in-state students and $37,698 for out-of-state students attending UConn next year.
Posted inJustice
Lamont vetoes limits on solitary confinement, counters with executive order
Gov. Ned Lamont vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have set statutory limits on the use of solitary confinement in prisons.
Posted inHousing
As end of COVID eviction moratorium nears, rental relief going slowly in CT
Only 2,921 payments have been by UniteCT, a COVID assistance program criticized as overly complicated and technically flawed.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Connecting the dots: Critical race theory and Gramsci Marxism
To a carpenter with a hammer,” it has been said, “every problem looks like a nail.” To Karl Marx, assembling communism from a wild and variegated international socialism, every social problem in the modern world arose from economic class disparities. And if one put a class disparity eye loop to one’s eye, the Marxian theory made some sort […]
Posted inCT Viewpoints
The new cannabis law: A public health and safety disaster
Connecticut’s governor and majority-party legislative leaders were proud and self-congratulatory on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, at the signing of SB1201, the recreational marijuana bill. The governor boasted that “… all of us here… place a premium on public health… and public safety… this is a bill that prioritizes that….” To the governor and those legislative leaders: this bill is a disaster.
Posted inPolitics
A plea for diversity in CT Assembly, where men hold 2/3 of seats
A ceremonial bill signing marked progress and shortcomings in making Connecticut’s political world more hospitable to working mothers.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Gypsy Moth outbreak hits northwest Connecticut
About 25,000 acres of oak, beech, and aspen trees have completely lost their leaves due to gypsy moth caterpillars.
Posted inInvestigations
Accused sex offender to return to CT to face charges in nursing home assault
Miguel Lopez will face charges in a case that focused attention on a loophole in Connecticut’s sex offender registry laws.
Posted inMoney
Scanlon forces Lamont to keep focused on tax fairness, relief for middle class
The new state budget mandates Connecticut’s first tax fairness study in seven years.
Posted inCT Viewpoints, Talking Transportation
Competition for Metro-North
Not with a bang, but a whimper. That’s how commuters seem to be moving, albeit in small numbers, back to working in-person in their New York City offices.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
The Transportation and Climate Initiative failure
How sad that Connecticut, a supposedly progressive state could not get the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) to a vote.Â
Posted inJustice
Summer brings the annual focus on how to prevent crime in CT
Gov. Ned Lamont highlighted $5 million in crime-prevention funding, though the precise plan is a work in a progress.
Posted inHealth
Report: Connecticut must improve health data collection on race and ethnicity
Connecticut has no standards for how its medical facilities gather, report and use patient data on race, ethnicity and language.