Katsouleas submitted a resignation letter to the UConn Board of Trustees in March.
Jacqueline Rabe Thomas
Jacqueline was CT Mirror’s Education and Housing Reporter, and an original member of the CT Mirror staff, joining shortly before our January 2010 launch. Her awards include the best-of-show Theodore A. Driscoll Investigative Award from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists in 2019 for reporting on inadequate inmate health care, first-place for investigative reporting from the New England Newspaper and Press Association in 2020 for reporting on housing segregation, and two first-place awards from the National Education Writers Association in 2012. She was selected for a prestigious, year-long Propublica Local Reporting Network grant in 2019, exploring a range of affordable and low-income housing issues. Before joining CT Mirror, Jacqueline was a reporter, online editor and website developer for The Washington Post Co.’s Maryland newspaper chains. Jacqueline received an undergraduate degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University and a master’s in public policy from Trinity College.
Posted inJustice
CT House votes to provide attorneys for tenants facing eviction
If signed into law, Connecticut will become one of the first states to provide right to counsel.
Posted inHousing
How one bike ride inspired a case that could upend CT’s zoning laws
Woodbridge officials are weighing whether to allow multi-family housing after attorneys applied to convert a single-family home.
Posted inPolitics
Senate votes to repeal CT’s religious exemption to mandatory vaccinations
Senators voted 22 to 14 in favor of the proposal after more than eight hours of debate.
Posted inMoney
Democrats want CT to spend $180 million more on municipal aid. What does that mean for your town?
Legislative Democrats recommend that the state spend $180 million or 7.4% more more in municipal aid next fiscal year.
Posted inGovernment, Housing
Eviction moratorium extended until public health emergency order ends
The state moratorium hasn’t completely eliminated evictions, which are now at about half the level they were before the pandemic.
Posted inGovernment
Long lines for free food persist more than a year into the pandemic, causing concern among advocates
While food insecurity remains high, the state is not seeing a corresponding increase in food stamp recipients.
Posted inEducation
Cardona taps a top Lamont staffer to join him at the U.S. Department of Education
Nick Simmons was director of strategic initiatives in Lamont’s office for nearly two years.
Posted inHousing
The pandemic’s effect on the housing market helped some — but others are left behind.
Across Connecticut, lower-income families are facing more housing challenges. Federal aid might help, but the problems have deep roots.
Posted inPolitics
Affordable housing bills move out of committee, but not without changes
The bills are still “a work in progress,” legislators said.
Posted inGovernment
Poor people are still suffering from economic downturn brought by COVID
Communities that were already struggling with poverty before the pandemic were hit particularly hard when the jobs vanished.
Posted inHealth, Investigations
CT to hire 71-member ‘campaign’ team to push vaccines in 10 cities
Grossman Solutions will be paid from a $24 million fund of federal money.
Posted inHousing
Homelessness was down in CT before the pandemic. Here are 5 things to know.
Volunteers found fewer homeless people in Connecticut during an early-2020 count.
Posted inHousing
Many ideas, but little agreement, on how to address Connecticut’s affordable housing issues
Fault lines emerged during a contentious hearing this week on how to remedy high housing costs and segregation.
Posted inEducation
Bridgeport parents ask state again to fix systemic problems with special education
Declines in staffing levels have left some children without the support they need, the complaint charges.