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By mid-month, everyone 75 or older should be vaccinated if they wish.
Officials believe 50% to 60% of the state's more than 25,000 nursing home employees have now been vaccinated.
In the latest version, only children in seventh grade or higher would be permitted to continue claiming the religious exemption.
The governor plans to establish a guaranteed admissions program to Connecticut State Universities and make advanced placement courses more accessible.
First-dose clinics are "paused" and any second-dose appointments that had not come through their systems originally are cancelled.
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I often say that I experienced sexual violence twice, once through the act of sexual violence and again through the aftermath: denied support, countless instances of victim blaming and disbelief, and a lack of accountability to my perpetrator. While victim blaming is often mistakenly diminished to being an anomaly or an indication of individual ignorance, it is undoubtedly institutionally instigated.
We should never forget what insurrectionists did at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. With President Trump’s encouragement, overwhelmingly white men and women stormed the building, hunted for elected officials, flew the Confederate flag, erected a gallows and killed a member of the Capitol Police. We should also not forget what we saw, as they sported such disturbing and bizarre iconography --from KKK tattoos, Holocaust denial tee shirts and QAnon costumes to Pepe the Frog flags to crusader crosses. More pernicious due to its very ordinariness, however, was their display of every type, style and color of “tactical” or paramilitary apparel and gear.
Only a few weeks into the new Biden-Harris administration and 48 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade, Connecticut stands at the precipice of change. The time is now for our state to take the lead and advance reproductive freedom for all. If 2020 has taught us anything, it is that anti-choice extremists will stop at nothing to push their unpopular, ideologic agenda, even here in our own state.
Our nation’s electoral systems desperately need attention, something which became even more evident when a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Partisans disagree about what needs reforming and why. No single measure by itself will put us back on track. However, the time has come in Connecticut to consider a simple, feasible and nonpartisan reform that has been gaining momentum across the country: Ranked Choice Voting.
In a world of systemic oppression aimed towards those of darker skintones – representation matters. We are more than our equity elusive environments, more than numbers in a prison and much more than victims of societal dispositions. This piece depicts a melanated young man draped in a cape ascending high above multiple forms of oppression. […]
Shea is a story about race and social inequalities that plague America. It is a narrative that prompts the question, “Do you know what it’s like to wake up in new skin?”
Through my artwork I strive to create an example of ideas that reflect my desire to raise social consciousness, and cultural awareness. Jazz music is the catalyst to all my work, and plays a major influence in each piece of work.”
During times like these it’s often fun to revisit something familiar and approach things with a different slant. I have been taking some Pop culture and Art masterpieces and applying the vintage 1960’s and 70’s classic figures (Fisher Price, little people) to the make an amusing pieces. Here is my homage to Fisher -Price, Yellow […]
