The report by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas in your wonderful Mirror does not reflect reality in Connecticut small towns. She hypothesizes that the popularity of housing for senior is based on the intention to block the arrival of families with children.
Small-town Connecticut wants housing for families with children
Posted inPolitics
Denise Merrill not running for another term as CT Secretary of the State
Denise Merrill’s departure creates the first open race for statewide office in 2022.
Posted inSteady Habits
PODCAST: Wrapping up a session that said “yes” to legal marijuana, “no” to new taxes
The legislative session has concluded. It seems in some ways this “Land of Steady Habits” has emerged a changed place.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Turning off the tap on toxic PFAS
Many people know that learning, attention and developmental disabilities can be passed from parent to child, but did you know that chemical exposures also contribute to over 25% of these disabilities ? This means one in every 200 U.S. children suffer from developmental or neurological deficits linked to harmful chemicals . The good news is that these causes are preventable.
Posted inPolitics
Ben Proto elected CT state Republican party chair
Connecticut Republicans elected Ben S. Proto Jr., a longtime GOP operative and elections lawyer, as their state chair Tuesday night.
Posted inJustice
CT Chief State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo reappointed
Questions about office tensions were addressed before Richard Colangelo was reappointed as Connecticut’s chief state’s attorney on Tuesday.
Posted inPolitics
Lamont signs Connecticut’s marijuana legalization law
Possession of small amounts of recreational marijuana becomes legal in Connecticut on July 1.
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Citing divorce fight, Alex Kasser resigns from the CT Senate
The state Senator said stress from her contentious divorce her husband, Seth Bergstein, led to her decision to resign.
Posted inEconomic Development
Lamont welcomes Philip Morris, a tobacco icon trying to kick smoking, to CT
Philip Morris International, the Big Tobacco icon struggling to reinvent itself as a purveyor of e-cigarettes, is moving to Connecticut.
Posted inJustice
State reaches deal to improve education, mental services for incarcerated youths
The settlement deals with three topics: education, access to mental health and cell confinement in medical isolation and quarantine units.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Legislative session over, monied interests win again
The Connecticut legislative session is thankfully over and its main accomplishment was to increase public support for the restoration of the British monarchy.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Governor Lamont must sign anti-solitary bill
Two weeks ago, just past midnight, the PROTECT Act passed through the state legislature. Now, this historic bill sits on the desk of Gov. Ned Lamont. Connecticut has the opportunity to substantially limit the harmful practice of solitary confinement.
Posted inTransportation
Lamont’s transit reboot: Faster trains next year — and 2035
Connecticut is promising billions in improvements to the New Haven Line, the busiest and pokiest commuter rail corridor in America.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Achieving results for nursing home residents, yet more to do
After the terrible early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the continued spread of the virus through Connecticut nursing homes in the months that followed, we realized many of the issues plaguing nursing home residents and were able to enact change.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Bill’s death is another chance to improve the lives of those suffering
Last session, legislation for assisted suicide failed to move forward in the General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee. The death of this bill in the committee will allow for continued protection of the state’s most vulnerable people.