Funding for about 175 projects across CT was delayed for months while Congress worked through a tumultuous process to fund the government.
CT secures about $190 million in earmarks from federal bills
Posted inEducation
Advocates call to end school suspensions for nonviolent behavior
The proposed legislation would define violent behavior in CT law and limit the use of out-of-school suspensions to such cases.
Posted inHealth
CT’s new Medicaid prior authorization rule has advocates worried
New Medicaid prior-authorization rules have advocates in Connecticut concerned about patients losing access to their prescription drugs.
Posted inEvents
Bridgeport: Community Listening Session
Community Engagement Reporter Reginald David is hosting a Listening Session on February 25, 2026, at the Burroughs Community Center.
Posted inJustice
Adults sentenced for crimes as youth want CT to expand early parole
Advocates want to expand access to early parole for people who committed crimes before age 26 and were given lengthy sentences.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Community health workers deserve their promised reimbursement
More than two years after it was promised, Connecticut’s Medicaid program still does not cover community health worker services.
Posted inStudent Voice
The dropout crisis in youth sports
Youth sports should allow kids to be active, have fun and build friendships, but intense pressure to succeed is causing burnout.
Posted inMoney
Senate GOP pitches deep cuts to CT tax and electric bills
Senate Republicans say Connecticut can afford far more than the one-time $500 million tax rebate Gov. Ned Lamont pitched last week.
Posted inPartner Content
White House official: Trump set to gut U.S. climate change policy
The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a final rule rescinding a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding.
Posted inEducation
CT’s first ‘course in a box’ focuses on music history
CT officials said if the course, An American History of Rock and Soul, is well received, more state-designed courses “in a box” could follow.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
From Kent State to Minneapolis
The true danger to a democracy is not simply when power overreaches. It is when the people no longer feel disturbed by that power overreach.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Payments to UConn athletes should not be secret
UConn doesn’t want to conceal its payments to student-athletes for their sake but for its own.
Posted inHousing
AG probe underway after Rocky Hill apartment complex evacuated
Thousands are in temporary housing after the Concierge Apartments in Rocky Hill were evacuated. The attorney general is investigating.
Posted inHousing
CT housing needs assessment required under H.B. 8002 underway
CT officials will use the fair share report — a controversial study featuring three different analyses of housing need — in the assessment.
Posted inEconomic Development
This CT nonprofit is getting startups through the ‘valley of death’
By funding early-stage “hardtech” entrepreneurs, FORGE has become a key part of CT’s effort to reignite and develop its manufacturing sector.