Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, former Veterans Affairs Commissioner Sean Connolly and a businessman, Guy L. Smith IV, kicked off gubernatorial campaigns within an hour of each other Tuesday, underscoring the unprecedented free-for-all to succeed Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. They are the 23rd, 24th and 25th candidates to declare.
Clarice Silber
Clarice Silber was a General Assignment Reporter at CT Mirror. She formerly worked for The Associated Press in Phoenix as a legislative and general assignment reporter. In 2016, she conducted extensive interviews and research in Portuguese and Spanish for the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team at McClatchy, which was the only U.S. newspaper to gain initial access to the Panama Papers. She is a Rio de Janeiro native and graduated from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism.
Posted inHealth
More CT residents sign up for Obamacare than last year
Access Health CT CEO Jim Wadleigh and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman viewed the new enrollment figure as a victory, especially in light of challenges from Washington, D.C., where the Administration and Republicans in Congress have been working to eviscerate the Affordable Care Act.
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Malloy criticizes feds in visit to relief center for Caribbean evacuees
In a visit to a temporary Hartford relief center Wednesday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy criticized President Trump for the federal government’s response to the damage inflicted by Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rico, where half the island is without power 100 days after the storm’s landfall.
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Lawmakers question DCF officials on death of Hartford teen
Lawmakers questioned the commissioner and other top officials of the Department of Children and Families, sharply at times, during a hearing Tuesday on the agency’s actions before a nonverbal Hartford teenager with autism died from starvation and physical abuse earlier this year.
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Board of Regents votes to consolidate all 12 community colleges
The governing board of the state’s 12 community colleges voted Thursday to advance a controversial plan intended to merge the schools into a single accredited institution, despite fervent opposition from faculty and students who attended the meeting.
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Regents to consider plan for consolidating community colleges
A controversial plan to consolidate Connecticut’s 12 community colleges into a single accredited institution would shed nearly 190 people in top administrative positions by 2021.
Posted inPolitics
Chris Mattei enters AG race with a slap at Trump and big business
Chris Mattei formally entered the race for attorney general Monday with an appeal to the Democratic base by promising to be “unflinching” in taking on Wall Street banks, pharmaceutical companies, energy companies and others who unfairly disadvantage consumers.
Posted inHousing
Advocates say CT makes further progress reducing homelessness
An assessment by the Partnership for Strong Communities states the number of Connecticut residents experiencing homelessness during 2016 fell to 10,083, a five-year low and an 8 percent decrease from 2015.
Posted inJustice
Days after protest, state poised to help police buy body cameras
Two days after a protest over the police shooting of a Bridgeport youth, the state Bond Commission is poised to approve $1.8 million to reimburse 14 police departments for the cost of body cameras and video storage devices as part of a state effort to improve police transparency and community confidence.