The kids are back in school. Can the governor and his chief of staff lure back lawmakers for a special session on transportation?
Fairfield County
Coverage of issues affecting residents in Connecticut’s southwestern-most county.
Posted inJustice
Gov. Lamont, state police outline plan to respond to uptick in city shootings
The state will give $25,000 each to Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven to put more officers on the streets. State police will also be deployed to the cities.
Posted inMoney
Connecticut files lawsuit to preserve federal tax workaround
Connecticut filed another lawsuit Wednesday in its battle against federal income tax limits aimed primarily at those states that voted against President Trump in 2016.
Posted inInvestigations
Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing
In Southwest CT, the gap between rich and poor is wider than anywhere else in the country. Invisible walls block affordable housing and, by extension, the people who need it.
Posted inEducation
School regionalization bills sow confusion, spread fear
One of the bills calls for remaking school districts in the image of the state’s probate court map, but its author says that was never his intent.
Posted inEducation
Opponents of school regionalization to descend on Capitol
Thousands of Connecticut residents are alarmed by what they see as a threat to their childrens’ education – an attempt by lawmakers to take away local control of their schools.
Posted inMoney
Pressure builds to repeal tax on inheritances of the wealthy
Connecticut’s tax on inheritances of the wealthy faces increasing scrutiny as some Democratic legislators join many Republicans in calling for its repeal.
Posted inPolitics
Greenwich lawmaker launches 2019 debate on tolls
Sen. Alex Bergstein, D-Greenwich The 2019 debate over tolls began this week with a legislator from Connecticut’s southwestern corner — home to some of the state’s most congested highways and rail lines. Sen. Alex Bergstein, a freshman Democrat from Greenwich who favors tolls on all vehicles, also wants to employ a financing approach that could […]
Posted inPolitics
New governor looks for new routine in Hartford — and Greenwich
In a conference room across the hall from his still-undecorated State Capitol office suite, Gov. Ned Lamont and his senior staff worked Thursday afternoon on setting the rhythm and cadence of a new administration — and the man who leads it.
Posted inPolitics
Yes, there will be a Democratic state senator from Greenwich
Alex Bergstein joins the Connecticut Senate next week as a curiosity in the huge new class of Democrats: She is a Greenwich Democrat, the first elected to the state Senate since the mid-term elections of 1930, when Republicans were wounded by a deepening Depression and an unpopular Herbert Hoover.
Posted inTransportation
Lamont selects former Metro-North president to lead DOT
Updated Friday.
Gov.-elect Ned Lamont has recruited Joseph J. Giulietti, the former president of Metro-North, the commuter railroad that is Connecticut’s vital economic link to New York City, to be his commissioner of transportation, multiple sources said Thursday.
Posted inMoney
The millionaire-with-a-suitcase: man or myth?
For nearly a decade, it has been the favorite argument of those opposed to higher state taxes for Connecticut’s wealthy — migration. Simply put, if you tax them, they will leave. But is it true? Fifth in a series.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Connecticut’s vanishing shoreline: Towns trying to beat the odds
Shoreline resiliency against sea level rise and flooding in Connecticut is largely in the hands of local governments. But with money tight and local budgets reliant on the taxes shoreline properties generate, efforts to protect coastal communities from climate change have been slow and underfunded. Some communities, however, are making more progress than others.
Posted inPolitics
Himes knocks Trump foreign policy, Arora defends it
Rep. Jim Himes and Republican challenger Harry Arora on Monday night presented two different views on how the United States should treat friends and foes around the world.
Posted inPolitics
Immigrant-turned-millionaire Arora challenges Himes
WASHINGTON– The race for the 4th District congressional seat pits political novice Harry Arora, a Republican who says he backs most of Donald Trump’s agenda, against a Democratic incumbent, Rep. Jim Himes, who has the political winds at his back.
