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Fewer high school seniors are applying for college financial aid, largely due to the uncertainty of the COVID era.
Mark Boughton vowed to cut taxes as a GOP candidate governor. Now, he's going to collect them for a Democrat.
The first COVID-19 inoculations could be administered Tuesday in Connecticut to frontline medical personnel.
Education union leaders called on Gov. Ned Lamont to close schools until mid-January unless safety precautions are met.
The group proposed extending its work to the end of March 2021 so they can monitor testing and vaccine distribution.
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Big smiles last week from Heaven’s Hall of Fame for prominent Italian Americans. Surely the biggest was from Luisa DeLauro. She died three years ago at age 103 after an amazing life which included working in New Haven’s sweatshops as a youngster and then serving for decades on the New Haven City Council. Last week her daughter, Congresswoman Rosa Delauro, became the first Connecticut member ever to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
In elected politics, objectives are clear and it is easy to understand the motivations behind why a party or candidate chooses a certain path: that which they think they will benefit their standing and that of the party to the public. Anyone who has read the press releases of elected officials knows what I mean. Politics is generally not about making good policy. It’s about what is hoped that you, their constituent or future constituent, will think of the official/party by their action on a policy.
That didn’t take long. CTMirror reports, “One of U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro’s first acts after winning election as the Appropriations Committee chair will be to convene an informational hearing next week on the Hyde Amendment, the ban on Medicaid spending for abortion regularly renewed by Congress since passage in 1976.”
COVID-19 has proven that detaining our youth is a choice. We can choose better. We are well over nine months into this public health crisis, and youth are still being detained and incarcerated at juvenile and adult facilities across the state and nationwide.
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?” 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 […]
