Connecticut’s diesel fuel tax has fallen to its lowest level since 2010.
Though larger mileage tax is coming, truckers get a small break on diesel fuel levy
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Yale study links housing instability and risky sexual behaviors
Researchers have found evidence that landlord-related forced moves are associated with HIV sexual risk.
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Connecticut must establish a right to housing
As a college student in New Haven, where one in four people live below the poverty line, I’m privy to Connecticut’s failure to enact fully effective housing policy every day. Never was this clearer than when I planned a picnic on the Green upon arriving in New Haven.
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Is it too late for the state to say ‘yes’ to an increased tourism campaign?
At first glance, the Connecticut tourism communications campaign, with a $1.2 million budget, seems like a great move to support an industry ravaged by COVID over the past 15 months. But is it?
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It’s time for Connecticut to divest from Israel
His office says State Treasurer Shawn Wooden is “keenly aware of the impact that pension funds can have on important issues related to human rights and world peace.” If this is true, then he either refuses to know about the Palestinian struggle or does not care.
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CT legislators to consider extension of emergency. This time, the public is invited.
Lawmakers return on July 12 to consider an extension of the governor’s powers to manage the pandemic.
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As mass vaccination sites close, focus turns to mobile clinics to reach targeted groups
As vaccination rates have slowed, mass vaccination sites have closed while the state shifted its focus to smaller clinics.
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The U.S. has become a war capitalist state
America’s shameful lack of adhering to the precepts of the Constitution has given rise to the war capitalist state.
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Lamont lets evictions moratorium expire, but orders new tenant protections
Gov. Ned Lamont is allowing the evictions moratorium to lapse — while slowing them to buy time for relief payments.
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Nation’s first ‘net zero’ hotel takes shape in New Haven
Developer Bruce Becker ‘recycles’ the old Pirelli building into an all-electric and sustainable hotel.
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UConn board votes to continue planned tuition increase
The $625 increase will boost tuition to $15,030 for in-state students and $37,698 for out-of-state students attending UConn next year.
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Lamont vetoes limits on solitary confinement, counters with executive order
Gov. Ned Lamont vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have set statutory limits on the use of solitary confinement in prisons.
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As end of COVID eviction moratorium nears, rental relief going slowly in CT
Only 2,921 payments have been by UniteCT, a COVID assistance program criticized as overly complicated and technically flawed.
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Connecting the dots: Critical race theory and Gramsci Marxism
To a carpenter with a hammer,” it has been said, “every problem looks like a nail.” To Karl Marx, assembling communism from a wild and variegated international socialism, every social problem in the modern world arose from economic class disparities. And if one put a class disparity eye loop to one’s eye, the Marxian theory made some sort […]
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The new cannabis law: A public health and safety disaster
Connecticut’s governor and majority-party legislative leaders were proud and self-congratulatory on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, at the signing of SB1201, the recreational marijuana bill. The governor boasted that “… all of us here… place a premium on public health… and public safety… this is a bill that prioritizes that….” To the governor and those legislative leaders: this bill is a disaster.