The Connecticut Siting Council has a choice: side with a utility that dismissed alternatives, or stand with a community fighting for its heritage.
Protect Bridgeport’s past – and our right to shape its future
Posted inGovernment
CT DEEP posted an AI-generated image, and the Internet noticed
The CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection posted an AI-generated image to Facebook last week. The agency soon replaced it.
Posted inLong Story Short
PODCAST: CT’s prisons deal with K2 drug overdoses
WSHU and CT Mirror’s Emilia Otte discussed her article about fatal and non-fatal drug overdoses in Connecticut’s prisons.
Posted inMoney
CT slashes more debt – but not from pensions
Connecticut wiped out nearly a third of the unfunded obligations in its health care program for retired state workers.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
New Haven shows how NOT to solve homelessness
Homelessness is not a crime. It is the predictable outcome of decades of failed housing policy.
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Third Act CT to Stephen Miller: We’re not ‘going home’
We in Third Act CT are CT elders who stand irrefutably against the oligarchic autocracy now under construction.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Lamont seeks delay on vote over transmission line in Fairfield, Bridgeport
The Fairfield to Congress Railroad Transmission Line plan sparked local opposition from people who object to the use of 195-foot steel poles.
Posted inHousing
At YIMBYTown conference, discontent over Lamont veto of HB 5002
At national conference, attendees voiced frustration with Lamont as speakers from red states touted advancements in their zoning policies.
Posted inHealth
Expiring federal health subsidies could cost CT $295M to make up
Governors including Ned Lamont are urging congress to extend the subsidies. If they expire, more than 4M people could lose health coverage.
Posted inJustice
CT announces ban on warrantless ICE arrests in state courthouses
Immigration officers to be prohibited from making certain arrests, wearing masks in state courthouses. How rules will be enforced is unclear.
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RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel expected to recommend delaying hepatitis B shot for children
A federal vaccine advisory panel is expected to vote to recommend delaying until age 4 the hepatitis B vaccine, currently given to newborns.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
CT battling Trump EPA proposal to end greenhouse gas regulation
Connecticut officials and advocates are in the thick of a fight over it, with emissions levels and air quality hanging in the balance.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Wethersfield school renovations would benefit student health
There are statistically significant improvements in student outcomes that go beyond the financial variable.
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The Bizarro presidency
Trump’s Bizarro-like idea of meritocracy amounts to a patronage system of blatant incompetency.
Posted inHealth
CT in talks to buy Bristol, Day Kimball and Waterbury Hospitals
Officials are discussing the purchase of Prospect Medical’s Waterbury Hospital and Bristol and Day Kimball hospitals by UConn Health.