Clyde Meikle is a “poster boy candidate” for release from prison. If he can’t get a sentence modification, who can?
Best of 2021: After killing his cousin, Clyde Meikle found purpose in prison through service. Now he’s asking to go home.
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Best of 2021: ‘There’s still work to be done:’ Higher staffing target in nursing homes remains elusive
The hurdles to increasing the minimum required hours of direct care: The cost of staffing and finding and keeping workers.
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Best of 2021: How CT spends billions in latest federal relief will shape its economic future
Policymakers face unprecedented challenges deciding how to spend $6 billion-plus in new federal pandemic relief.
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State to distribute millions of COVID testing kits and N95 masks
Connecticut will begin distributing more than 3 million COVID-19 at-home tests and 6 million N95 masks as early as Thursday.
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Best of 2021: Children with psychiatric needs are overwhelming hospital emergency departments in CT
Throughout the month of April, more than 30 children with psychiatric needs waited in Connecticut Children’s 48-bed emergency department on any given day. By the end of the month, that number increased to an average of 40 children.
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Best of 2021: Critical race theory roils school board race in Guilford, a town long open to a study of slavery
Guilford is an unlikely outpost in a culture war over America’s racial reckoning and its place in public education.
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Best of 2021: State to thousands who got unemployment money: Give it back
State officials have issued thousands of letters instructing some people to repay unemployment benefits they received during the pandemic.
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The glory days of the first class Metro-North ‘club cars’
We all dream about traveling first class. Big comfy seats, real food and free drinks. This is the only way to fly.
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Best of 2021: There’s a new plan for realigning Hartford’s highways. Is the third time the charm?
The plan would remove the I-84/I-91 interchange downtown and cap I-91 with a new road, expanding river access.
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Best of 2021: The game is changing. Chris Murphy says he’s ready to play.
The question for Sen. Chris Murphy no longer is where might he go next, but what can he do now.
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Best of 2021: Connecticut’s sole supermax prison is closing. What comes next for the men who used to be on death row?
Should those confined to prison for the rest of their lives be held on “special circumstances,” or is incarceration enough?
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For some trans people, how family handle names and pronouns can make or break the holiday
Many transgender people head into the holidays seeing family struggle with or outright refuse to use their new names.
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Court directs master to draw CT congressional map without regard to politics
The political scientist who revised Connecticut’s congressional map a decade ago was hired by the Supreme Court to do it again.
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With COVID cases increasing again in nursing homes, officials mull mandates
With less than 30% of nursing home staff having received a booster shot, some providers are considering a booster mandate.
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The year of the vaccine: How Connecticut dealt with COVID in 2021
By the end of 2021, Connecticut’s eligible population is over 72% vaccinated, one of the highest rates. But challenges remain.