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The CT Mirror's Yehyun Kim photographed these scenes in Hartford and West Hartford.
Employee unions want to block Gov. Ned Lamont’s efforts to radically shrink the state's workforce starting in 2022.
Immunization is a vital tool in the battle against infectious disease. Thanks to vaccines, smallpox and polio no longer take the lives of countless individuals in the U.S. and around the world. Today, 16 infectious diseases are now preventable as a result of childhood vaccines, resulting in an estimated $1.9 trillion in societal costs saved.... The coronavirus pandemic has only made the importance of vaccines and immunizations clearer, particularly for ethnically diverse or minority communities who have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
Legislators and community organizers in Hartford want to drastically change local zoning laws, and it’s right around the corner in the 2021 Legislative session. But the changes being promoted would result in much denser housing without valuing or regarding historical districts, environmentally sensitive areas, and established neighborhoods of single-family homes.
Connecticut's education commissioner is under consideration for U.S education secretary. A Connecticut source says the vetting is serious and substantive.
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As an international businessman who has owned a series of wonderful homes in Greenwich, I now find myself an inadvertent landlord for a rich family who have been squatting without paying rent for months. Recent news stories confirm I am not alone. While it clearly makes sense to limit evictions for most tenants during a pandemic, the moratorium on evictions that the Lamont administration has implemented due to COVID provides for no distinctions or proportionality in its application.
Notice anything missing on your store shelves? Maybe paper products or your favorite canned soup? Given that the pandemic has been raging for over nine months, why aren’t the shelves full again? Why isn’t the stuff we want "getting there?" Well one of the reasons is because a Japanese engineer visited an American supermarket in the 1950s and noticed something he thought was wrong… and we’re still paying for his astute observations.
In a world of systemic oppression aimed towards those of darker skintones – representation matters. We are more than our equity elusive environments, more than numbers in a prison and much more than victims of societal dispositions. This piece depicts a melanated young man draped in a cape ascending high above multiple forms of oppression. […]
Shea is a story about race and social inequalities that plague America. It is a narrative that prompts the question, “Do you know what it’s like to wake up in new skin?” Anthony Valentine lives in Bloomfield
Through my artwork I strive to create an example of ideas that reflect my desire to raise social consciousness, and cultural awareness. Jazz music is the catalyst to all my work, and plays a major influence in each piece of work.”
During times like these it’s often fun to revisit something familiar and approach things with a different slant. I have been taking some Pop culture and Art masterpieces and applying the vintage 1960’s and 70’s classic figures (Fisher Price, little people) to the make an amusing pieces. Here is my homage to Fisher -Price, Yellow […]
