Despite the historical inaccuracy and poor results of CRT/DEI programs, they have been embraced by teachers unions and schools across the country – including here in Connecticut.
Educators now oppose Dr. King’s dream. We need laws to protect it.
Posted inPolitics
Paper ballots remain in CT, but move to new tabulators begins
Connecticut is entering a new era, with early in-person voting in a general election and the first use of new tabulators to count votes.
Posted inEspañol
Seguro médico de Connecticut: Cómo elegir un plan
Saber qué buscar al seleccionar una cobertura de seguro médico en Connecticut puede ser abrumador. Esto es lo que debe saber.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Profits over patient care is bad medicine
For-profit private equity firms owning hospitals and operating health care networks is threatening the quality of Connecticut healthcare.
Posted inMoney
CT makes 11.5% return on pension asset investments
Connecticut made an 11.5% return last year investing its pension assets, placing in the top 25% nationally of large public pension funds.
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CT Secretary of State Thomas talks early voting at ‘In the Room’
Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas, speaking at a CT Mirror event, said many voters don’t know that they can vote before Election Day.
Posted inEconomic Development
Foundation makes rare ‘impact investment’ in local project
Foundations are exploring “impact investing,” where funds are invested in entities that align with the causes the foundation supports.
Posted inPolitics
Bridgeport election monitor warns of issues with curbside voting
CT officials are considering seeking a new law that would prohibit candidates and operatives from interjecting as people use curbside voting.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
CT leaders must address gas system ‘death spiral’
If legislators and the governor are serious about lowering energy costs for residents and businesses, they have to contain spending on the gas pipeline system just as directly as they do electricity.
Posted inHealth
Athena nursing home in Waterbury loses federal funding
Abbott Terrace Health Center residents will be moved out. Medicare is to end after its failure to meet health and safety requirements.
Posted inAnnouncements
Tom Condon, veteran Connecticut journalist, dead at 78
Tom Condon, a newspaperman in Connecticut for more than 50 years at The Hartford Courant and The Connecticut Mirror, died Tuesday morning.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
A song of praise for Tom Condon
If everybody did journalism the way Tom Condon did, the world would be a better place,
Posted inHousing
How are Windham, Tolland counties’ affordable housing plans? Study rates them
The report highlighted what it called promising plans and a need to do more to cut down on housing costs in rural parts of eastern CT.
Posted inEvents
WATCH: ‘In The Room’ with Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas
Host John Dankosky sits down with the Secretary of the State to discuss her role in voting, elections, and civic engagement.
Posted inNewsletters
On Balance: A ‘capital’ idea…
Erica E. Phillips writes about Gov. Ned Lamont’s new CT highway signs touting the state as the ‘capital’ of basketball, pizza and more.