Take media coverage of CT transportation with a grain of salt. The headlines don’t always tell the full story.
Don’t believe the transit hype
Posted inPolitics
This week at the CT Capitol: April 28-May 2, 2025
A round-up of news briefs from CT Mirror reporters about this week’s happenings at the Connecticut General Assembly.
Posted inPolitics
A legislative ‘rat’ returns to the CT Capitol, its origins still murky
A bill that would make CT’s state-employee health coverage available to appointees on quasi-public authority boards has passed the Senate.
Posted inEconomic Development
Minority contractors say CT not following its own rules, proposed fix doesn’t go far enough
CT requires 25% of state contracts be set aside for small and minority-owned businesses. Study showed it’s falling short.
Posted inEconomic Development
Electric Boat workers say they’ll strike on May 18 if no contract deal
The looming strike comes a day after the U.S. Navy awarded EB’s parent company, General Dynamics, a contract worth more than $12.4 billion.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
Has it been warmer this spring in central CT?
The first third of 2025 continued a warming trend in central Connecticut that’s been accelerating in recent years.
Posted inHuman Services
Insurance costs threaten CT foster care providers
Nonprofits that run foster care programs in CT are facing rising insurance costs that they say could force them to end those programs.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
For New Haven’s unhoused — cruelty or compassion?
In the early morning hours on April 15, after we gathered our belongings and sleepily stepped outside onto the streets across this city, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker ordered warming center staff to lock the doors and those of us who use them to disappear. With prolonged exposure to high and low temperatures throughout the […]
Posted inCT Viewpoints
CT’s complicit Republicans
The silence of Republican elected officials is putting the economic security, health and safety of Americans, and our democracy at grave risk.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Part-time faculty at CSCU need sick leave
There are real-life consequences when part-time instructors in the CSCU system don’t get sick days. Is that fair? We say no.
Posted inEspañol
¿Qué significarían para CT los recortes federales a Medicaid?
Los Demócratas están alertando de que las prioridades de la administración Trump amenazarán la financiación federal, crucial para Medicaid.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Net zero by 2050? CT lawmakers try again on climate legislation
A plan to set CT on a course to net zero carbon emissions was approved by lawmakers Thursday, giving hope to advocates.
Posted inPolitics
May Day rallies gather crowds in CT, across U.S.
Hundreds gathered outside the CT Capitol to protest the actions of the Trump administration and push CT legislators on local issues.
Posted inAnnouncements
CT Mirror wins 12 local SPJ awards, including two top prizes
The CT Mirror’s staff won six first place awards in the government reporting, investigative reporting, data reporting and other categories.
Posted inEconomic Development
New Haven’s Jason Sobocinski talks Haven Hot Chicken, Olmo
Food and beverage entrepreneur Jason Sobocinski, a New Haven native, joined CT Mirror for the third installment of ‘This Could Work.’