A review by Connecticut Public found it usually takes the commission around eight months to issue decisions in contested cases. And once the pandemic hit, that time shot up to more than a year.
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Posted inTransportation
For a New Haven-Darien commuter, a switch to the train makes sense
Briana LaMare headed into New Haven’s Union Station to catch the 9:47 a.m. train Tuesday, a new commuting routine that’s growing on her.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Partner Content
Connecticut’s trash future unclear after closure of processing plant
The imminent closure of a major trash plant in Hartford has set off urgent debate about the future of CT’s waste.
Posted inTransportation
Feds sending billions to financially strapped transit agencies
The Federal Transit Administration has announced it will award $2.2 billion to public transit systems, including $769 million for the MTA.
Posted inHealth
Which companies aren’t exiting Russia? Big Pharma
Even as the war in Ukraine has prompted an exodus of international companies from Russia, U.S. and global drug companies said they would stay.
Posted inHealth
A survival tool in transgender community, breast binders are in high demand
Requests for free breast binders by transgender youths in 2022 have outnumbered supplies at Health Care Advocates International (HCAI) in Stratford, which serves LGBTQ and HIV communities. HCAI received 126 binder requests in the first three weeks of January alone, crushing last year’s numbers and temporarily wiping out inventory. The group sent out 190 binders in all […]
Posted inGovernment
41 years before Ketanji Brown Jackson, Amalya Lyle Kearse was considered for the Supreme Court
On its website, the University of Michigan has an image of the Law School Class of 1962. It’s a sea of White men, smartly dressed in suits and ties. But five rows down, on the right, is Amalya Lyle Kearse, the only Black woman in the class — who would go on to make history […]
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Partner Content
State audit says $300K in MIRA contracts lack ‘a public bidding process’
Auditors took issue with two purchases tied to aging machinery at the plant which is used to generate power in times of critical grid demand.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Operators of MIRA’s Hartford facility say plant could burn trash until 2023
A state-owned garbage incinerator was supposed to close by July, but a new budget would allow the burn plant to operate for one more year.
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The migraine breakthrough
An international group of neurologists has deciphered the mystery of why people get migraines and, in doing so, has determined how to greatly reduce their frequency and severity.
Posted inJustice, Partner Content
The Supreme Court debate reveals the unique ways Black women are questioned
A recent survey shows that public perception of candidates’ readiness for the Supreme Court varies by race.
Posted inNews
CT residents and delegation respond to Russian invasion in Ukraine
Ukrainian Americans living in Connecticut are anxiously watching after the Russian military invaded Ukraine early Thursday.
Posted inPolitics
Lawmakers mull bill requiring supermarkets to donate excess edible food
A bipartisan group of CT lawmakers is co-sponsoring a bill that would require supermarkets to donate unsold food that’s still edible.
Posted inHealth
Advocates warn hospital merger could be ‘bad news’ for CT patients
Advocates say the research is clear: A hospital merger in which patients benefit the most is the exception, not the rule.
Posted inHealth
Surging behavioral health care needs for children put strain on school social workers
In Connecticut, as elsewhere across the country, the pandemic has exacerbated just how thin school-based social workers are stretched.