For Connecticut hospitals, the good news is their patient caseloads have grown dramatically since 2009. The bad news is those are Medicaid patients, and government payments don’t cover the full cost of treatment. And then there’s really bad news: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy would cut their state funding by one-fifth over the next two years. […]
Windham County
Coverage of issues affecting residents in Connecticut’s northeastern-most county.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
State’s farmers feel left out of big clean energy programs
Woodstock — Paul Miller has two words for the watery cow manure being pumped from catch basins under his barns into a large tanker truck — and those words, surprisingly, are not “that stinks!” The words are: “liquid gold.” For the record, the manure does stink, and by all accounts would be even worse if […]
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Sides ready for new round on outdoor wood furnaces
You can chuckle all you want about outdoor wood furnaces and whether they’re a subject the legislature should even bother with given that there are probably only a couple of thousand in the state. Then you might want to get out of the line of fire. “I’ve been here a long time,” said Bob Girard, […]
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Supporters, foes of outdoor wood furnaces square off in hearing
The tension between use of local, low-cost energy sources and the health effects of breathing wood smoke played out for hours in a hearing room Wednesday, as the Environment Committee heard testimony from at least 68 people about a bill that would ban outdoor wood-burning furnaces everywhere but farms. About 3,000 of these furnaces are […]
