No one quite captured the zeitgeist at the State Capitol last year like Tara Cook-Littman. The founder of GMO Free CT used social media to rally foodies, environmentalists and consumer activists behind a successful crusade to require the labeling of genetically modified foods. Now, she wants to try public policy from the inside — as a legislator.
Tara Cook-Littman: GMO activist becomes candidate
Posted inHealth
Hypertension: Disparities widen for black women
Nearly one of every two African-American women living in Connecticut suffers from hypertension, a life-threatening condition that can lead to heart attack, stroke and kidney disease, research shows.
Posted inMoney, Politics
UTC deal draws cautious responses at Capitol
Is it OK to offer big tax relief to a corporation that retains the option to cut thousands of jobs in the years to come?
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Op-ed: Time to face the facts and fix the problems
The Malloy administration tells us all is well, but Connecticut has lost its way.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Op-ed: Revamp CT’s property tax system to overcome inequity, inefficiency
This should be the year policymakers start to revamp the state’s property tax structure. We know the system is unfair, and there is a clear path forward to fix it.
Posted inPolitics
Murphy addresses Ukraine in New Haven
New Haven — Last weekend during a visit to New Haven, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy predicted that Russia would never send its military into Ukraine. Murphy was back in New Haven Saturday, addressing Ukraine at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Church on George Street, after Russia had in face marched in to seize control of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
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Obama to promote minimum wage at CCSU
President Obama will join Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the governors of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain on Wednesday to promote raising the minimum wage. Limited tickets will be offered to the public Tuesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Detrick Gymnasium in Kaiser Hall at […]
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Op-ed: Connecticut — Speak up! We’re listening.
At the end of 2013, we asked readers to submit suggestions about the issues lawmakers and policymakers should take up this year — the perfect time to give them an earful.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Politics
Esty has win in windstorm act
WASHINGTON — Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District, scored a legislative win Friday as the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee approved her proposed amendment to the “Windstorm Impact Reduction Act.”
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Op-ed: Too many Connecticut families need affordable housing
The private market simply does not meet the need for housing for about one in every four families.
Posted inNews
Nearly one in four young, foreign-born Connecticut residents not citizens
WASHINGTON – A new U.S. Census Bureau report says nearly one in four young immigrants, or about 118,000 people in Connecticut, are not U.S. citizens.
Posted inEducation
Malloy’s CT state college plan: Transformative, or a bailout?
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s “Transform CSCU 2020” initiative appears to be part program, part bailout, or a “tuition supplement,” as college officials are calling it.
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Holder-Winfield quits House, joins Senate
Sen. Gary Holder-Winfield addresses colleagues after taking the oath of office. Gary Holder-Winfield resigned Friday from the House of Representatives and immediately took his place in the Connecticut Senate. Holder-Winfield, a Democrat from New Haven, was elected Tuesday in a special election to succeed Toni Harp, who resigned her Senate seat after her election as […]
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State data center headed to southeastern CT
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration is finalizing plans to move state government’s data processing center to southeastern Connecticut early next year.
Posted inPolitics
Murphy asks FBI to crack down on ‘kidnapper’s’ phone scam
Washington – There are countless phone scams claiming victims in Connecticut every day, but Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., has asked the FBI to crack down on an especially bold one that involves a caller claiming to hold a family victim hostage and asking for ransom. “Several Connecticut residents have fallen victim to this fraud, even […]