The lawmakers want the state to provide $2 million to replace federal family planning funding the organization rejected due to new rules that prohibit recipients from referring women for abortions.
Senate Democrats call on state to find funding for Planned Parenthood
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Lamont names financier Dan Toscano as UConn chairman
A Morgan Stanley partner with longtime ties to UConn was named today as the university’s board chairman.
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Mental illness is a distraction in conversations on gun violence, advocates say
Advocates and lawmakers say it’s imperative to untangle the issue of mental illness from mass shootings and address the real problem: access to guns.
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Student athletes risk injury in steamy workouts
Heat illness is a leading cause of death among high school athletes, especially during practice workouts during extreme heat. Since 1995, 64 football players have died from heat stroke, including 47 were in high school, 13 in college, two professional, and two youths in organized sports.
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Trump nominates Nardini, Jongbloed to federal bench
Trump nominated William Nardini to fill an opening on the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and tapped Barbara Jongbloed, to serve as a U.S. District Court Judge for Connecticut.
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Lamont overrules DPH commissioner on school immunizations
Gov. Ned Lamont’s decision to release school-by-school immunization rates came a day after his public health commissioner announced she was not making the data public.
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Q-Poll: Biden, four other Dems, would handily beat Trump
The poll, released Wednesday, also shows that former Vice President Joe Biden enjoys a substantial lead over his Democratic rivals for the White House.
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Back to School: Closing The Minority Teacher Gap
The minority teacher gap is not significantly shrinking, despite far-flung recruitment and other strategies that the state and local districts have employed.
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Long-term care insurance costs are skyrocketing
As Connecticut’s population gets older – more than 575,000 residents, or 16 percent of the population, were over age 65 in 2016 – a ticking time bomb awaits them. Long-term care insurance was a good investment in years past, but the cost of that insurance is now skyrocketing, which leaves seniors in a dangerous situation.
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Lamont, Cardona talk about education priorities from minority teacher recruitment to coding
Some educators in attendance Tuesday said while they agree with the governor’s broader vision, they didn’t hear much that was new. They hope to eventually get more specifics on his plan to improve Connecticut’s schools.
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End of an era: Chief prosecutor Kevin Kane to retire
Kevin T. Kane’s retirement as chief state’s attorney comes at a watershed moment in what is expected of prosecutors.
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Reports: Sacklers, Purdue offer massive settlement of opioid suits
Conn. Attorney General William Tong is participating in talks with Purdue Pharma, and its owners, the Sackler family, about their offer to settle more than 2,000 lawsuits against the company for $10 billion to $12 billion.
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CCM says its property tax analysis contained flawed data
A Connecticut Conference of Municipalities report highlighting rising property taxes across much of the state contained a major factual error, CCM announced Tuesday. But while Monday’s report exaggerated the total number of communities that raised property taxes, its conclusion — that roughly 60% of municipalities not experiencing revaluation raised taxes in 2019 — was accurate.
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Public health commissioner won’t release school-by-school vaccination data
The decision to withhold the data comes after calls for transparency from lawmakers who say parents should have access to the information as the school year begins.
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Murphy: Russia denied visa for visit
A second member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., also said he was denied a visa for the trip.