College students and recent graduates are among those who told CT legislators that the state would benefit from transit-oriented development.
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CT’s wage-theft investigators facing growing backlog of cases
About 1,000 worker complaints submitted to the CT Department of Labor, including claims of wage theft, have not been investigated.
Posted inJustice
Mubarak Soulemane shooting video shown to jurors in trooper trial
The footage of Soulemane’s death was a stark reminder for the jurors of why they were gathered in a small courthouse in Milford this week.
Posted inEducation
A cellphone use ban in schools? One CT town is experimenting
Gov. Ned Lamont visited a CT school that locks cellphones in Yondr pouches during the school day. Teachers and students say they’ve benefited.
Posted inJustice
Trial for CT trooper charged in Mubarak Soulemane’s death underway
The trial for trooper Brian North, charged with manslaughter for shooting a Black man, Mubarak Soulemane, in 2020, is groundbreaking for CT.
Posted inHousing
Wide-ranging CT affordable housing bill sparks familiar arguments
The bill would allow housing authorities to build in other towns and would further fund CT’s homelessness response and Rental Assistance.
Posted inHealth
CT elder care bill gets mixed support from advocates, officials
Home care and nursing home industry leaders had cautious support for a sweeping bill that would overhaul aspects of CT’s elder care sector.
Posted inHealth
Lamont negotiates big pay hike for CT home health aides
The tentative 3-year contract would boost minimum wages for home health aides by 26% to $23 per hour by the 2025-26 fiscal year.
Posted inHealth
What if a local hospital goes broke? CT lacks receivership authority
The Office of Health Strategy said CT does not have a direct path to take over hospitals through receivership, as it has with nursing homes.
Posted inEducation
CSU faculty union refuses retirement buyouts
One of CT’s largest faculty unions won’t take part in a retirement incentive program officials are counting on to close the CSCU deficit.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
In CT and D.C., Democrats flinch at rapid transition to EVs
CT Democrats are joining the Biden administration in a retreat from controversy over how hard to push a change from gas to electric vehicles.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
CT legislators take another swing at a big climate bill
The bill has 17 multi-part initiatives designed to address climate change, but it is not a comprehensive greenhouse gas reduction roadmap.
Posted inPolitics
A CT proposal would eliminate tipped minimum wage. Here’s what to know
A proposal known as ‘One Fair Wage’ would establish one minimum wage for all workers, eliminating the lower minimum wage tipped workers earn.
Posted inInvestigations
Many CT towns, cities still deciding how to spend opioid funds
Most CT municipalities had yet to spend any opioid settlement funds as of last fall. But some have pooled their money and created partnerships.
Posted inJustice
Lamont makes 22 CT Superior Court judge nominations
Lamont, who has been urged by advocates to seek diversity of experience in the law as well as in race and gender, announced 22 nominees on Friday.