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Best of 2021: No children allowed. Are wealthy CT towns building elderly housing to keep out poor families?

Avatar photo by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas January 1, 2022 @ 5:00 amJanuary 26, 2023 @ 10:33 pm

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

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel January 1, 2022 @ 4:59 amJanuary 26, 2023 @ 10:33 pm

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

Avatar photo by Keith M. Phaneuf January 1, 2022 @ 4:59 amJanuary 26, 2023 @ 10:33 pm

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

Avatar photo by Andrew Brown December 31, 2021 @ 5:00 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:12 pm

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?

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, Kasturi Pananjady and Jenna Carlesso December 31, 2021 @ 4:59 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

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.

Avatar photo by Isabella Zou December 31, 2021 @ 4:59 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

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?

Avatar photo by Keith M. Phaneuf December 30, 2021 @ 5:00 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

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

Avatar photo by Adria Watson December 30, 2021 @ 4:59 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

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

Avatar photo by Tom Condon December 30, 2021 @ 4:59 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

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

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Erica E. Phillips, Katy Golvala and Dave Altimari December 29, 2021 @ 5:00 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

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

Avatar photo by Erica E. Phillips December 29, 2021 @ 4:59 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

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

Avatar photo by Mark Pazniokas December 29, 2021 @ 4:59 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

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.

Avatar photo by Kelan Lyons December 28, 2021 @ 5:00 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

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

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Jenna Carlesso and Kasturi Pananjady December 28, 2021 @ 4:59 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

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

Avatar photo by Keith M. Phaneuf December 28, 2021 @ 4:59 amDecember 21, 2022 @ 5:07 pm

Policymakers face unprecedented challenges deciding how to spend $6 billion-plus in new federal pandemic relief.

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