The “Baby bonds” bill is an effort to tackle CT’s yawning wealth gap; Lamont expected to sign into law
June 9, 2021 @ 11:55 pm
Posted inEducation
Bill changing campus safety reporting gets final passage in House
House Majority Leader Jason Rojas received a forcible reminder Wednesday morning the bill hadn’t been called yet.
Posted inMoney
See how your town fares in the new CT budget
An 8% increase in state aid to cities and towns is augmented by $3.2 billion in federal pandemic aid.
Posted inHealth
Proposal opening HUSKY to undocumented children in CT wins final approval
The Senate passed the bill on a vote of 26 to 10.
Posted inMoney
CT Senate gives final approval to $46.4 billion state budget
The Senate adopted the two-year state budget Wednesday, sending the package to Gov. Ned Lamont with bipartisan support.
Posted inPolitics
Democratic lawmaker calls CT budget ‘a knee on the neck of the Black community’
Sen. Fonfara said the decision not to tap revenue to reverse inequities is a moral failure.
Posted inEducation
State budget opts to ‘hold harmless’ every town’s education funding
The proposed state budget avoids taking education dollars away from well-off communities, as the school funding formula had called for.
Posted inJustice
Ritter pledges passage of marijuana legalization bill in special session
The House speaker pledged passage of a bill legalizing recreational marijuana in the next 7 to 14 days.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Transportation
It looks like CT’s Transportation Climate Initiative bill is dead. Now what?
The legislature’s failure to pass TCI could test the state’s leadership role in battling climate change.
Posted inMoney
House approves $1.5 billion, five-year urban investment initiative
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a new, $1.5 billion, five-year investment program in Connecticut’s poorest cities and towns.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Colorado lawyer: Connecticut should not make our marijuana mistake
Nearly a decade later, Colorado has a commercialized, elitist, polluting, government-protected drug-dealing industry, that perpetuates itself to the detriment of the public and the planet. And we didn’t “legalize” nor end prohibition; those were political sops.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
CT adoptees can rejoice: it’s now the 10th state to guarantee birth certificate access
People who are adopted shouldn’t be deprived of knowledge about where they come from.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
‘Almost nothing went as planned’: on teaching during COVID-19
I was living a crisis moment in time like the historical ones I’d found captivating since childhood.