A ceremonial bill signing marked progress and shortcomings in making Connecticut’s political world more hospitable to working mothers.
A plea for diversity in CT Assembly, where men hold 2/3 of seats
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Gypsy Moth outbreak hits northwest Connecticut
About 25,000 acres of oak, beech, and aspen trees have completely lost their leaves due to gypsy moth caterpillars.
Posted inInvestigations
Accused sex offender to return to CT to face charges in nursing home assault
Miguel Lopez will face charges in a case that focused attention on a loophole in Connecticut’s sex offender registry laws.
Posted inMoney
Scanlon forces Lamont to keep focused on tax fairness, relief for middle class
The new state budget mandates Connecticut’s first tax fairness study in seven years.
Posted inCT Viewpoints, Talking Transportation
Competition for Metro-North
Not with a bang, but a whimper. That’s how commuters seem to be moving, albeit in small numbers, back to working in-person in their New York City offices.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
The Transportation and Climate Initiative failure
How sad that Connecticut, a supposedly progressive state could not get the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) to a vote.
Posted inJustice
Summer brings the annual focus on how to prevent crime in CT
Gov. Ned Lamont highlighted $5 million in crime-prevention funding, though the precise plan is a work in a progress.
Posted inHealth
Report: Connecticut must improve health data collection on race and ethnicity
Connecticut has no standards for how its medical facilities gather, report and use patient data on race, ethnicity and language.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Are we citizens or mere spectators?
The American two party political system is broken. The Democrats are attempting to go forward without any significant bipartisan cooperation. The Republicans have chosen not to have a legislative platform of any kind, and will devote themselves solely to regaining Congressional leadership power while blocking whatever initiatives the Democrats put forward, including, most particularly, establishing […]
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Adapting to an uncertain climate future, Connecticut auditions new forests
Climate change is already impacting the state’s trees. Here’s what environmentalists are doing to mitigate the damage.
Posted inPolitics
How well do you know Connecticut politics? Take our 2021 legislative session quiz!
So you think you know what happened at the state Capitol this legislative session? Take our quiz and find out.
Posted inHealth
Black and Hispanic Americans suffer most in biggest U.S. decline in life expectancy since WWII
In addition to killing 600,000, the pandemic threatens the health of people through the loss of jobs, homes and opportunities.
Posted inHealth
To vaccinate young adults in CT, Lamont turns to the concert scene
Jim Koplik has promoted the Stones, McCartney and Springsteen. Let’s see what he can do with J&J, Moderna and Pfizer.
Posted inHealth
More COVID vaccines are being wasted as demand drops
Nearly a third of all wasted COVID vaccine doses in CT were lost since the end of May.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Incarcerated people need the Attorney General’s attention, too
State attorneys and lawyers representing incarcerated people with mental health problems argued in court recently on how to proceed in a lawsuit seeking to end decades of correctional abuse in Connecticut.