What’s happening in this liberal suburb is a reflection of land-use decisions playing out in wealthy suburbs across the state.
Saud Anwar
Posted inMoney
Six months into pandemic, just two families have received aid from state’s rental assistance program
With too-few counselors to handle 7,400 applications and a burdensome process, little progress has been made getting people their money.
Posted inPolitics
Lamont, legislators agree on July agenda. It doesn’t include housing segregation.
Housing advocates have been trying to seize the moment, pushing a reluctant legislature to think more broadly about racism.
Posted inHealth, Justice, Politics
Lamont, Democratic lawmakers, have different visions to rebalance CT’s finances amid crises
It is becoming clear the business-sensitive governor and his more liberal base are headed in opposite directions.
Posted inPolitics
Voting during a pandemic in Connecticut? For most, that means going to polls.
Every voter will get an absentee ballot application in the mail. State law bars most from using them.
Posted inPolitics
Solidarity in a Connecticut mosque, and polarization
At an interfaith vigil called in response to the attack on Muslims in New Zealand, President Trump was rebuked in Connecticut for his refusal to recognize the threat of white nationalism.
Posted inPolitics
A defense of U.S. Muslims as victims of jihadist terror
An Asian woman talked about the imprisonment of Americans of Japanese descent for three years during World War II. Noting the last night of Hanukkah, a rabbi recalled those times and places where Jews could only light their menorahs in secret. A gay man, now proudly out, talked about the days of being bullied as “the other.” They came to support America’s newest “other,” the Muslims.