It would appear that the Senate will confirm President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court today. She has flown through the hearing process with ease and no one seriously questioned her qualifications, experience, or knowledge of the law.
Given the chance, the Democrats would have done the same thing
Posted inHealth
Biden’s big health agenda won’t be easy to achieve
If Biden wins the presidency, health will be a high priority. Just not in the way he might have thought.
Posted inHealth
Who decides when vaccine studies are done?
Dr. Anthony Fauci will oversee most of the ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials in the U.S., but not Pfizer’s.
Posted inPolitics
CT donations to Biden campaign have surged
Joe Biden’s campaign has raised more money than Donald Trump’s as the race enters its final days.
Posted inEconomic Development
CT economy will struggle until at least 2030 to recover from COVID, UConn report warns
The UConn think tank also said state has hurt itself by failing to make investments in information technology.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Mutual Aid is community care
Summer of Solutions Hartford is a youth leadership nonprofit organization in Hartford run by Black, queer, disabled and nonbinary femmes. As the children of formally incarcerated people, we have built an analysis on the needs of marginalized communities by addressing those affected by intergenerational oppression due to food apartheid, policing, and anti-Black racism.
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Keep wearing your masks (and eyewear), please!
Since early last Spring, when our nursing home had its first case of COVID-19, life, and death, have never been the same. Being immersed in the deadly effects of the invisible poison we call COVID-19 has consumed the lives of those of us caring for patients inflicted with this horrible illness.
Posted inNews
Connecticut’s COVID alert map gets redder; Positive test rate at 2.3%
COVID-19 cases are increasing from Hartford to Waterbury and producing a stunning flare-up in Norwalk.
Posted inHealth
Backus nurses’ union reaches deal with hospital over new contract
Increased pay, more protective equipment included in deal.
Posted inPolitics
Blumenthal, other Dems boycott Barrett vote, but nomination moves forward
Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination will move to the full Senate on Monday.
Posted inHousing
CT’s balkanized housing laws are the subject of a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration
A federal lawsuit claims a new rule will make it harder to challenge unfair housing practices in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Posted inHealth
With COVID-19 cases rising in CT, some nursing homes are now requiring visitor testing
The state has issued no mandate around visitor testing, leaving the decision up to the nursing homes.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Connecticut’s housing crisis requires more than an emergency response
Our state has made noteworthy progress in reducing annual homelessness at a time when many states have seen tragically large increases in this terrible problem.
However, a growing number of households in Connecticut are facing challenges in accessing and affordably maintaining adequate housing. We need Congress to provide more resources.
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Ojakian and the Board of Regents: The wrong answer to the budget crisis, and a lot of nerve
CSCU President Ojakian and the Board of Regents for Higher Education would rather raid the scarce community college system reserves than cease wasting money on managers for the Connecticut State Community College.
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This is not my dad’s deal
My father recently died after being very ill for several months. As one does, I’ve taken to thinking about his life. In many ways he had a very ordinary and stable life, but one that feels increasingly improbable for so many of us now.