The state’s Child Fatality Review Panel on Monday issued a “Public Health Alert” to spread the word that dangerous sleep conditions are the leading cause of infants dying in Connecticut.
CT Child Fatality Panel: Unsafe sleeping conditions leading cause of infant deaths
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Congress to move ahead, then freeze up, on jobless benefits
Washington – Because Congress failed to act, Joanne Lavieri of Manchester received her last unemployment check at the end of March and faces a very uncertain future.
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Ted Kennedy Jr. to announce Tuesday for state Senate
At age 52, Ted Kennedy Jr. is set to begin his career as a candidate seeking a seat in the Senate at 6 p.m. Tuesday at a library. It’s not the JFK Library in Boston, and the seat he is seeking would send him to Hartford, not Washington.
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UConn’s Napier: ‘We do have hungry nights’
Napier told reporters that it’s hard for him to see his jersey getting sold while he struggles to eat.
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Questions (and answers) about CT’s new girls’ incarceration unit
“There are girls that really very easily can fill these 10 beds,” said Joette Katz, commissioner of the state Department of Children and Families.
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Washington Watch, Week of April 6 – April 12
WASHINGTON — Congress will try to cram in as much work as possible this week before taking off for two weeks on an Easter/Passover/Spring break.
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Have a ticket? Three weeks remain until “Small State, Big Debate: Inequality”
Three weeks remain until The Connecticut Mirror’s signature event, Small State, Big Debate: Inequality. You can find registration, speakers and the day’s schedule at the event’s website here. We also featured our speakers last week through video and audio.
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WATCH: The Mirror’s “CT Electric Choices and You” Tuesday
Join The Connecticut Mirror on Tuesday, April 8, at 10:30 a.m. for its first Digital Town Hall event on ctmirror.org.
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Pragmatic civics, shifting shorelines
You know how Congress works as defined in the Constitution. But we try to show how Congress actually operates on a day-to-day. Tune in to pragmatic civics, by Washington reporter Ana Radelat and data editor Alvin Chang.
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Courtney betting prestige, ‘treats,’ on Huskies
In a time-honored congressional tradition, Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, has publicly challenged a colleagues on over who will come out on top in a key game in this year’s NCAA tournament.
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GE lobbies hard for tax loophole, groups say
Washington – How much is a tax loophole worth to a company? A new report says that one in particular is so important to Fairfield-based General Electric that it has deployed a small army of lobbyists to save it.
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Rowland signs off at WTIC-AM, citing ‘some personal issues’
Former Gov. John G. Rowland, who was named Monday as a conspirator in a criminal case involving a friend’s 2012 congressional campaign, abruptly announced his resignation Thursday as a WTIC-AM radio host as his drive-time talk show was ending at 6 p.m.
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Corporate tables available for “Small State, Big Debate”
Corporate tables are still available for The Connecticut Mirror’s first signature event, “Small State, Big Debate: Inequality.” You can find registration, speakers and the day’s schedule at the event’s website here.
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Same-sex married couples can now apply for Medicare benefits
The change was made in response to last summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which had prevented the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages in determining Medicare eligibility.
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CT authorizes six medical marijuana dispensaries
Connecticut officials have designated facilities in Branford, Bridgeport, Bristol, Hartford, South Windsor and Uncasville to serve as the state’s first six medical marijuana dispensaries.