As my office is assembling the final report for FY19 Community First Goals, I can’t help but reflect on the tremendous progress the town has made on customer service. Upon entering office, the town didn’t have a formal customer service training program and was operating in deep silos at top levels of government.
Greenwich <i>CAN</i> get satisfaction
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Not just universal pre-K, but an extended school year, too.
Noticing how early schools let out for summer break this year brought back memories of some of my students sharing their sadness’s on the waning days of the school year. They reported that there was nothing to do and some said they had to stay in all day until a parent came home from work.
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Whiting Task Force bemoans psychiatric hospital’s condition
Members of a state task force described the building as run down and dated and questioned whether psychiatric patients would be better treated in a more modern facility.
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Connecticut sees ’emerging threat’ in PFAS chemicals
Frustrated by the EPA’s inaction, states are moving to address PFAS substances, an old class of chemicals linked to the pollution of drinking water.
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Mental health parity bill signed into law
Beginning in 2021, Connecticut insurers will have to submit annual reports detailing their coverage of mental health and substance abuse services.
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Tong vs. Trump, the case of an activist AG
He promised a Trump firewall. Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has tried to deliver on that pledge, challenging the president on a raft of issues since taking office.
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Health care of thousands in CT at stake as court set to hear ACA case
Even if the 5th District Court of Appeals rules the Affordable Care Act is invalid, it’s not likely to disappear overnight.
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What do these CSCU ‘no confidence’ votes mean?
During the first three weeks of May, faculty and staff at the state’s community colleges and universities voted “no confidence” in overwhelming numbers against Connecticut State Colleges and Universities President Mark Ojakian, the Board of Regents for Higher Education and the “Students First” consolidation plan.
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Government less transparent than before
Open government proponents in Connecticut, citing major new barriers to access public records, are concerned that state and local politicians have weakened the Freedom of Information Act significantly over the last year.
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Major fireworks, but none political, over July 4 weekend
Nothing like a long holiday weekend celebrating American independence — or an ice cream, cold beer or dip in the ocean — to take the edge off a week of otherwise standard divisive politics.
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All about ‘Medicare for All’
We’re doing something a little different this holiday week. Because “Medicare for All” is so much in the news, we’re rerunning an earlier explainer.
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Newly blue Maine expands access to abortion
While abortion bans in Republican-led states dominated headlines in recent weeks, a handful of other states have expanded abortion access. Maine joined those ranks in June with two new laws ― one requires all insurance and Medicaid to cover the procedure and the other allows physician assistants and nurses with advanced training to perform it.
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Bye brings passion for social justice to early childhood work
The idea of working to support families motivates Beth Bye in her new post as commissioner of the Office of Early Childhood.
Posted inMoney
Gasoline taxes are on the rise — just not in CT
Connecticut hasn’t raised gasoline taxes in six years, but motorists crossing the border during this long holiday weekend still could face rising prices at the pump.
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Look at Mueller’s evidence, Doc, and there’s the crime
Joseph Bentivegna MD starts his exhaustingly partisan rant claiming Democrats need to “mollify their rabid base.” His opinions are riddled with nastiness in absence of facts. It is clear to me that the doctor failed to read the Mueller report. All healthcare practitioners must use evidence-based practice, but Dr. Bentivegna, with all his years of education, “evidence-based” must have slipped his mind.