Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy still hold out hope
Dems unlikely to seize control in U.S. Senate
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New Haven election worker tests positive for coronavirus; State-wide rate around 4%
An election worker in New Haven has tested positive for coronavirus, prompting other employees to quarantine.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
That little girl was a future state senator, and I ignored her
In the 1977 film “Saturday Night Fever,” a Puerto Rican dance couple enter a dance contest at a Brooklyn disco owned and patronized by whites, winning second prize for their spectacular performance. First prize goes to Tony, played by John Travolta, and his partner. Tony informs his jubilant partner that the contest was rigged. Strangers, especially Puerto Rican ones, could never win. Plucking the second-place trophy from the hands of his startled competitors, he gives them his. “Congratulations,” he says. “I think you deserve it.”
I also have an award I want to swap.
Posted inNews
All five of CT’s congressional incumbents are reelected
As expected, there were no upsets of Connecticut’s incumbent members of Congress this year.
Posted inPolitics
Helped by Trump, Democrats gain in CT General Assembly
Donald Trump’s unpopularity in Connecticut appeared to help Democrats increase majorities in the General Assembly.
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Across Connecticut, no problems at the polls
Long lines reported early; absentee ballots contribute to heavy turnout
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COVID put this CT voter in the hospital. Still, he voted.
Bob Martin was desperate to vote, perhaps for the last time.
Posted inNews
How to vote — in-person or absentee — on election day
It’s not too late to vote today, even if you’re not registered or moved and forgot to register at your new address. But you might have to show up earlier than registered voters to actually cast a ballot.
Posted inPolitics
Platoons of lawyers, some from CT, ready to litigate results
The legal fights over Tuesday’s election results could eclipse Bush v. Gore
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Fiscal responsibility or slash-and-burn budgetary politics at CSCU?
Is the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Board of Regents engaging in false advertising? Citing a forecasted budget deficit of $69 million due to COVID-19, on Oct. 15 the BOR passed a resolution cutting an additional $8 million from the CSCU campuses. Those cuts are being executed immediately. Not only is the board implementing these drastic cuts during a global health crisis, it is making these cuts to part-time faculty, and undergraduate and graduate assistants who are some of the campuses’ most vulnerable populations.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
How to build a monument
What is a museum without educators? To our dismay, our employer, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, seems determined to use the pandemic as a means to answer this question.
Posted inCT Viewpoints, Talking Transportation
A treasure hunt for Metro-North
The headline a few days ago was encouraging: “CT gets $400K grant to study improvements to Metro-North lines.” But what’s $400,000 going to tell us that we don’t already know?
Any rider of Metro-North knows the infrastructure is crumbling, the station parking and seating on trains (until COVID) are inadequate and, on the branch lines, the service is terrible. So why another study? Turns out, this federal grant is different…
Posted inStudent Voice
Connecticut charter schools take advantage of PPP funding, while traditional public schools are left behind
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, charter schools in Connecticut accepted loans from the Small Business Administration Payment Protection Program (PPP). The paycheck protection program is a federal program, implemented during the coronavirus pandemic, that provides loans to small businesses to incentivize them to keep their workers on payroll. They come with low interest rates, two to five years to pay back the loan, and no small business fees. None of these loans were available to traditional public schools, as they are not considered businesses.
Posted inEducation
Judge: Children face no ’emergency danger’ from wearing masks in schools
A Hartford judge denied a request for an injunction against the state’s requirement that children wear masks in schools.