Advocates say some towns, like Branford, favor elderly complexes as a way to prevent construction of affordable housing for families.
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Best of 2021: Connecticut farmers are finding there’s no easy way to deal with climate extremes
Farmers around the state are coping with extreme weather, multiple outcomes of climate change, and the unpredictability of the future.
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Best of 2021: Public sector pensions are prime beneficiary of federal COVID relief grants
More than six out of every 10 federal relief dollars built into the new state budget is earmarked for pensions.
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Best of 2021: Documents: CT city used COVID relief funds to hire a marching band
West Haven officials spent COVID relief funds on a marching band for the city’s Memorial Day parade documents show.
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Best of 2021: Is the state’s vaccine rollout leaving behind Black and Latino residents?
Rolling out the COVID vaccine to older residents first means it’s more likely to go to white residents first.
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Best of 2021: Life has never been easy for single moms. The pandemic made it harder.
Nationally, mothers lost work at three times the rate of fathers in the pandemic. The loss was even worse for single mothers.
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Best of 2021: CT’s budget picture is rosy now. Did Lamont create it — or did he inherit it?
Policies enacted by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and past legislatures contributed greatly to Gov. Ned Lamont’s recent budgetary success.
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Best of 2021: CT educators share what is being taught in their classrooms amid growing outrage about Critical Race Theory
The accusation persists that teachers striving to help students understand racism in America are using Critical Race Theory.
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Best of 2021: It has been slow to arrive, but high speed rail could be coming
A high-speed rail concept has been germinating, one that would go inland through Connecticut instead of along the shoreline.
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Best of 2021: Sema4 was a hot CT startup. Then came COVID, state contracts — and a boost from Annie Lamont’s firm
Oak HC/FT invested in Sema4 two months after the Lamont administration signed a $17.2 million contract with Sema4.
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Best of 2021: Will CT’s race to attract data centers pay off? For some, it’s unclear
With many other states offering incentives, Connecticut’s relatively late arrival to the data center race struck some observers as odd.
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Best of 2021: Escapes from Afghanistan, coordinated from a home office in Connecticut
An ‘ops center’ for rescues in Kabul was a study in Connecticut across from the bedroom of 7-year-old twin girls.
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Best of 2021: After killing his cousin, Clyde Meikle found purpose in prison through service. Now he’s asking to go home.
Clyde Meikle is a “poster boy candidate” for release from prison. If he can’t get a sentence modification, who can?
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Best of 2021: ‘There’s still work to be done:’ Higher staffing target in nursing homes remains elusive
The hurdles to increasing the minimum required hours of direct care: The cost of staffing and finding and keeping workers.
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Best of 2021: How CT spends billions in latest federal relief will shape its economic future
Policymakers face unprecedented challenges deciding how to spend $6 billion-plus in new federal pandemic relief.