The Connecticut Department of Children and Families needs to do a better job of tracking children who age out of its care. Until that happens, a state report says, it is hard to gauge the effectiveness of its programs for seeing children into a productive adulthood.
Report: DCF must do better at tracking kids who ‘age out’
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Suicide with a gun twice as likely as homicide — about 50 people per day
This gun shop keeps suicide hotline information readily available for its customers. [Photo by Jacob Byk.] LAS VEGAS — Americans are twice as likely to die from turning guns on themselves as they are to be murdered with one. A national News21 analysis of 2012 data found 18,602 firearm suicides in 44 states compared with […]
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G. Claude Albert named The Connecticut Mirror’s new editor
Albert is a former managing editor of The Hartford Courant, where he held a variety of leadership posts overseeing most aspects of the newsroom.
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Malloy celebrates Pryor, but makes gesture to union critics
NEW BRITAIN – By turns wistful and upbeat, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor put a positive spin Thursday on Pryor’s announcement he will leave the Malloy administration, a departure sought by unions important to the governor’s re-election. He later named a leader of a teachers’ union to the State Board of Education.
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Future of Obamacare enrollment assistance still being determined
Officials say the in-person assistance program that helped thousands of state residents sign up for health care coverage last fall and winter will be back this fall for the next round of Obamacare enrollment. But it’s not clear where the money for it will come from, and some assisters worry because there’s been no public plan for it so far.
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Esty, Greenberg each win cross-endorsements in 5th CD
The Connecticut Working Families Party on Thursday endorsed Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District, for re-election.
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Rasmussen has Foley up by seven points
In the first public poll of the Connecticut governor’s race since the GOP primary, Republican Tom Foley led Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, 45 percent to 38 percent, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey released Thursday.
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Judge appoints receiver to oversee Amistad America
A state judge appointed a receiver Thursday to assume management of Amistad America Inc., the educational nonprofit that oversees the historic schooner based in New Haven harbor.
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UConn welcomes 6,000 new students, including ‘most diverse’ freshmen class ever
The University of Connecticut announced Thursday that nearly 6,000 new students will attend the main campus in Storrs and the various branch campuses this fall, while officials hailed it as the most diverse in UConn history. Students can begin moving into residence halls on the Storrs campus beginning Friday while the fall semester classes start next week.
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America’s guns kill seven of its children a day
For every U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan during 11 years of war, at least 13 children were shot and killed in America. Every day between 2002 and 2012, on average, seven children were shot dead.
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Former Lt. Gov. Joseph J. Fauliso dies at 98
Joseph J. Fauliso, the Senate leader who became lieutenant governor upon the resignation of his dying friend, Gov. Ella T. Grasso, on Dec. 31, 1980 and then held the job longer than anyone in more than a century, died Wednesday after a brief stay in hospice care. He was 98.
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2014 CT Mirror Summer Support Drive ends Labor Day
We want to thank those who have donated during our 2014 CT Mirror Summer Support Drive, which ends today. As election season continues in full swing, we appreciate those who have supported nonprofit journalism at its finest.
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Biden praises slain journalist at stop in East Hartford
Vice President Joe Biden praised James Foley, the U.S. journalist beheaded on videotape by Iraqi terrorists, at an event Wednesday in East Hartford, a stop on a political swing through Connecticut to raise money for the Democratic Governors Association and the state Democratic Party.
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Visconti qualifies, giving Foley competition for gun vote
Joe Visconti, a Republican who has campaigned as a Tea Party activist and Second Amendment defender, qualified Wednesday as a petitioning candidate for governor, ensuring at least a three-way race.
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Pistone qualifies for ballot in 5th CD race
John J. Pistone of Brookfield, whose web site describes him as a conservative candidate, qualified for the ballot Wednesday as a petitioning candidate for Congress in the 5th District of western Connecticut.