In CT, community health centers have been able to keep the lights on and generally keep up services amid the fallout from the funding freeze.
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Lamont closed the restaurants. Now he is their promoter.
A year after Gov. Ned Lamont banned indoor dining due to COVID-19, the industry has welcomed him as its savior.
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Lamont, top lawmakers make progress streamlining emergency orders issued during pandemic
It remains unclear whether the two parties will agree on the extent of the governor’s emergency powers during future crises.
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CT Supreme Court releases opinion declaring Ned Lamont’s emergency powers constitutional
The court upheld the constitutionality of the state’s emergency power laws and the governor’s exercise of his authority under them.
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Partisan battle heats up over Lamont’s emergency powers
Republican legislators charged Tuesday that once-necessary emergency powers granted Gov. Ned Lamont now are used to avoid government transparency.
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Ned Lamont’s year in the shadow of COVID
Ned Lamont has been the face, voice, and interpreter of the COVID crisis, mourning deaths, explaining setbacks and cautiously celebrating.
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DeLauro at the border: Trump’s immigration plans ‘inhumane, anti-American’
WASHINGTON – Rep. Rosa DeLauro traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border Monday to slam President Trump on his plans to crack down on undocumented immigrants — measures he is expected to move forward on this week through the signing of new executive orders. “A policy that separates families is an inhumane policy,” DeLauro said.
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CT a likely target of Trump’s new immigration policy
Washington – With its policy of not turning over all undocumented aliens requested by federal officials, Connecticut is likely to be in the cross hairs of President Donald Trump’s new immigration policy, outlined in twin executive orders issued Wednesday.
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CT advocates join in pushing Obama to limit deportations
Washington — Fed up with inaction from the Obama administration, Jose Luis Piscil, an undocumented worker who lives in New Haven, has sued federal immigration officials to limit deportations — even as President Obama is on the verge of taking steps to change the status of millions of undocumented workers.
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Malloy’s executive order leads to raise in some day-care wages
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced an agreement Thursday that will provide the first general wage increase in a dozen years for family child care providers under Connectiut Care 4 Kids for program, a deal he helped set in motion with an controversial executive order enabling union representation of the providers. The agreement, which provides for rate increases of three percent over four years, is subject to approval by the union, CSEA/SEIU Local 2001, and a vote of the General Assembly.