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As the rate of positive COVID-19 cases increases, the education commissioner is encouraging schools to stay open, if they can.
With COVID-19 cases on the rise and thousands unemployed, legislators say having a 'public option' is more pressing than ever.
In this post-election special titled "What Just Happened?" John asks how the "pandemic election" may permanently reshape voting in Connecticut.
Gov. Ned Lamont took little comfort in the daily rate of positive COVID-19 tests falling to 4.76% from 6.74%.
A new report from Pew Charitable Trusts ranks Connecticut dead last in personal income growth over the past year.
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After an incredibly difficult spring and a summer, we are seeing an increase in the number of coronavirus cases here in Connecticut. This fall and winter promise to be very challenging months. Nowhere has the impact of coronavirus been felt more than in our nursing homes. Nursing home residents and workers represent nearly 40% of all coronavirus deaths across the country.
Today, on Veterans Day, we honor those who risked their lives to defend America and our values. So it's extremely troubling to know that more than 6,000 veterans die by suicide each year, nearly twice the number of soldiers who were killed in action during the entire seven-year long Iraq war.
Imagine being stuck in the middle of a lake in a canoe with a single set of paddles and a life jacket. Now, imagine that your life jacket deflates, and your paddles shrink ever so much with each stroke you take as you make your way back to shore. Now imagine there is a tiny hole in your canoe. You work hard to try and make your way back to shore, but your resources are being depleted. Despite your best efforts, you are eventually underwater.
As someone who grew up in Connecticut and someone who rode the big yellow school bus for years, I can’t imagine those big yellow buses out of business. When students were transitioned to remote learning, buses remained idle for months. Even though the virus created a budget deficit, state and local governments should have required all Connecticut public schools to pay private bus companies.
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?” Anthony Valentine lives in Bloomfield
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 […]
About the art: This was a local landmark on Marion Road in Cheshire. I have painted this old cider mill and farm over many years and felt it was a part of Connecticut’s history. Ellen Pliskin lives in Cheshire.
