Saint Francis Hospital announced it is firing its president effective immediately. Trinity Health Of New England will also have a new CEO.
Leadership shake-up at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford
Posted inImmigration
Bill limiting federal immigration actions gets final passage in CT House
SB 397 restricts activities of immigration officers and allows lawsuits against agents for constitutional violations, among other provisions.
Posted inStudent Voice
Finding balance in school phone use policies
Instead of banning phones in schools, CT should focus on teaching students how to manage technology in real-world ways.
Posted inStudent Voice
The cost of becoming a nurse
In order for me and thousands of others to achieve our dreams, we need not only financial assistance, but respect.
Posted inCharting Connecticut
More CT residents using 988 hotline; deaths by suicide fell in 2025
Before the number changed, CT had 1,500 and 2,500 calls to the suicide hotline per month. CT now gets 4,000 to 5,000 calls in most months.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
A solution to CT’s high energy costs — more shared solar
CT has a good solution to rising electricity costs: community solar. It should be expanded.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Assisted suicide is not the compassionate answer
Assisted suicide contradicts the physician’s most basic calling, to provide cure and hope for the patient.
Posted inPolitics
Erin Stewart claims ‘witch hunt’ but doesn’t address pension issues
Erin Stewart, a GOP gubernatorial hopeful, said she is a victim of Republican collaborators and Democratic puppeteers on a “witch hunt.”
Posted inGovernment
Senate passes bill creating long-term care insurance safeguards
Senators on Thursday advanced a bill that imposes consumer safeguards and requires greater financial transparency from insurance companies.
Posted inMoney
Last-minute revenue surge makes path to new CT budget easier
Analysts estimate that surging income tax receipts and other revenue would add about $580 million to CT’s coffers this fiscal year and next.
Posted inHuman Services
Child Advocate letter points to DCF failings as CT House approves new oversight
In a letter, Connecticut’s Office of the Child Advocate condemned the declining quality of casework at the child welfare agency.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
CT lawmakers drop effort to ban Styrofoam takeout containers — again
House Democrats aren’t moving ahead with HB 5524, which would have implemented a ban on food service products containing polystyrene.
Posted inGovernment
Spring peeper, herald of warmer weather, could become CT state amphibian
CT House advanced a bill tying the tiny messenger of winter’s end indelibly to the state’s identity by a vote of 136-0. The Senate is next.
Posted inJustice
Kosta Diamantis’ second trial delayed; sentencing on first trial set
Kosta Diamantis is to be sentenced on 21 convictions from his first trial in September. A second corruption trial is to begin in December.