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Gov. Ned Lamont will need an extra $200 million in the next biennial budget to bolster the teachers' pension fund.
Gov. Ned Lamont also said he won't bill municipalities for a share of Connecticut’s massive teacher pension fund debt.
- Data suggests dozens of towns are violating CT Supreme Court decision on exclusionary zoning (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Data suggests dozens of towns are violating CT Supreme Court decision on exclusionary zoning (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- ‘Socially vulnerable’ towns and cities still lag behind in vaccinations for 75-and-older, even a... (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Boost for Badulla - Nine villages to be developed as towns (Category: Business)
Lawmakers want to revive a tax on carriers to support additional subsidies on the exchange, expansion of Medicaid.
- Democrats eye tax on insurers to fund broader health reform package (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Democrats eye tax on insurers to fund broader health reform package (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Democrats eye tax on insurers to fund broader health reform package (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Democrats eye tax on insurers to fund broader health reform package (Category: USA, Arkansas)
A coalition of superintendents is asking for a 2.5% annual increase in state spending for public schools.
- Superintendents association calls on state to increase funding for CT schools (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Superintendents association calls on state to increase funding for CT schools (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Superintendents association calls on state to increase funding for CT schools (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Superintendents association calls on state to increase funding for CT schools (Category: USA, Arkansas)
Reasserting the rule of law within the United States requires not only rejecting the outlandish claims of election fraud, but also holding Donald Trump and other officials accountable for the abuses of power, corruption, and possible crimes they may have committed. As with Nuremberg, the Justice Department can demonstrate that even “men who possess themselves of great power” are not above the law...
- Is Trump leading a cult? (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Is Trump leading a cult? (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Is Trump leading a cult? (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Is Trump leading a cult? (Category: USA, Arkansas)
Connecticut lawmakers may need to boost their credit card limit to help those hurt by the pandemic.
- Lawmakers considering boosting CT’s credit card limit to assist those hurt by the pandemic (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Lawmakers considering boosting CT’s credit card limit to assist those hurt by the pandemic (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Lawmakers considering boosting CT’s credit card limit to assist those hurt by the pandemic (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Funding to fix CT’s roads and bridges is drying up, and officials don’t have a solution (Category: USA, Arkansas)
The U.S. Capitol was overrun January 6 by an angry, armed mob of insurrectionists carrying campaign banners with the name “Trump” displayed just as prominently as on any of his failed casinos. But this was not the only violent incident to have taken place there.
- Not the first violence at the U.S. Capitol, but we must make it the last (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Not the first violence at the U.S. Capitol, but we must make it the last (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Not the first violence at the U.S. Capitol, but we must make it the last (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Sadly, not much has changed since Martin Luther King Jr.’s killing. (Category: USA, Arkansas)
Trump’s use of regulations and executive orders to modify health programs “was like an attack by a thousand paper cuts.”
- Trump admits loss as Democrats push long-shot removal (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Trump admits loss as Democrats push long-shot removal (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Trump admits loss as Democrats push long-shot removal (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Biden’s first order of business may be to undo Trump’s policies, but it won’t be easy (Category: USA, Arkansas)
Amid high unemployment, governments are spending coronavirus relief dollars on training programs to help workers find new jobs quickly.
- Some states train jobless for post-pandemic workforce (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Some states train jobless for post-pandemic workforce (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Some states train jobless for post-pandemic workforce (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Funding to fix CT’s roads and bridges is drying up, and officials don’t have a solution (Category: USA, Arkansas)
The FBI dissuaded some people contemplating violence from showing up in Washington — but couldn't arrest them.
- Domestic terrorism: A more urgent threat, but weaker laws (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Domestic terrorism: A more urgent threat, but weaker laws (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Domestic terrorism: A more urgent threat, but weaker laws (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Treason is in the air (Category: USA, Arkansas)
The speech played to Lamont’s strengths and downplayed his weakness as a late-in-life politician who rarely attempts oratorical high notes.
- A chatty State of the State, prerecorded in a pandemic (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Lamont will spare town aid while closing big deficit in next state budget (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Lamont will spare town aid while closing big deficit in next state budget (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Lamont will spare town aid while closing big deficit in next state budget (Category: USA, Arkansas)
Click here for the full transcript and video of Gov. Ned Lamont's state of the state speech.
- Making COVID vaccination more fair (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- CT formally expands next group of COVID vaccines to those age 65 and up (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- CT formally expands next group of COVID vaccines to those age 65 and up (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- CT formally expands next group of COVID vaccines to those age 65 and up (Category: USA, Arkansas)
A progressive coalition upped the pressure Monday on state officials to tax Connecticut’s wealthy to preserve vital services.
Connecticut’s transportation program has been riddled for more than a decade by broken funding promises from both political parties.
As an international businessman who has owned a series of wonderful homes in Greenwich, I now find myself an inadvertent landlord for a rich family who have been squatting without paying rent for months. Recent news stories confirm I am not alone. While it clearly makes sense to limit evictions for most tenants during a pandemic, the moratorium on evictions that the Lamont administration has impl...
Gov. Ned Lamont will need an extra $200 million in the next biennial budget to bolster the teachers' pension fund.
As an international businessman who has owned a series of wonderful homes in Greenwich, I now find myself an inadvertent landlord for a rich family who have been squatting without paying rent for months. Recent news stories confirm I am not alone. While it clearly makes sense to limit evictions for most tenants during a pandemic, the moratorium on evictions that the Lamont administration has impl...
Gov. Ned Lamont will need an extra $200 million in the next biennial budget to bolster the teachers' pension fund.
Legislators and municipalities want to know how and when Gov. Ned Lamont will divvy up $1 billion in federal relief.
- Connecticut has nearly $1B in new federal relief. Legislators and municipalities want to know ho... (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- School districts told to apply for $443 million for COVID aid (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Lamont to extend COVID emergency until April 20 (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Lamont to extend COVID emergency until April 20 (Category: USA, Arkansas)
Connecticut's attorney general said the state's price-gouging law was no match for COVID profiteers
- Gouging while hanging garland generates lawsuit (Category: USA, Illinois)
- Suspect arrested for price-gouging incident involving tourist in Kalutara (Category: Breaking News)
- Street food vendor arrested for price-gouging verbally harassing a foreigner (Category: Breaking News)
- Price-gouging verbal hostility- Arrested street food vendor granted bail (Category: Breaking News)
House Democratic leaders want to effectively end Connecticut’s longstanding practice of placing liens on the homes of former welfare recipients.
- Lamont does a Zoom speech, then gets a new hip (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Lamont does a Zoom speech, then gets a new hip (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Lamont does a Zoom speech, then gets a new hip (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Lamont does a Zoom speech, then gets a new hip (Category: USA, Arkansas)
On January 6 the world watched as domestic terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC. The pictures seared into our memories of this day are replete with symbols of hatred, racism, and extremism: The Confederate battle flag, the white power hand gesture, and the gallows erected near the Capitol reflecting pool. What many may not have noticed within this sea of white supremacy ...
- The Holocaust, history and today’s politics (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- The Holocaust, history and today’s politics (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- A Great American Dilemma: Israel-Hamas War – Is It Reverse Holocaust? (Category: Breaking News)
- Buddhism, Reconciliation And Auschwitz: An Interview With Zen Master Bernie Glassman (Category: Features)
The state Senate’s highest-ranking Democrat proposed new taxes on high-value homes and the capital gains of Connecticut's highest earners.
- Senate leader pitches new state property tax on high-value homes (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Senate leader pitches new state property tax on high-value homes (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Senate leader pitches new state property tax on high-value homes (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- State Rep. Scanlon launches tax fairness debate with proposed $450M break for poor, middle class... (Category: USA, Arkansas)
The City of New Haven’s effort today to seek an increase in financial contribution from Yale is more historically justified than is often recognized.
- New Haven and Yale: Giamatti and DiLieto: A historic moment? Or a model? (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- New Haven and Yale: Giamatti and DiLieto: A historic moment? Or a model? (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- New Haven and Yale: Giamatti and DiLieto: A historic moment? Or a model? (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Happy New Year, my foot (Category: USA, Arkansas)
When I was in first grade, I was mistakenly given an eighth-grade portion of food that I could not possibly finish. As I was presenting my uneaten portion to the woman at the garbage disposal, a redoubtable nun towering over me said, “Joseph, the pagan babies in Africa are starving and you’re wasting that good food.” I responded, “Sister, if I eat the food, the pagan babies still won’t get it.” Wa...
- The failed promise of public K-12 education (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- The failed promise of public K-12 education (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- The failed promise of public K-12 education (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- The failed promise of public K-12 education (Category: USA, Arkansas)
Even with the Democrats’ newfound Senate majority, differences in health policy between the party’s moderate and progressive wings will persist.
- The COVID vaccine: Keep it simple, stupid (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- The COVID vaccine: Keep it simple, stupid (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- The COVID vaccine: Keep it simple, stupid (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Overview Of Covid-19, Infodemics & Development Of Vaccine (Category: Breaking News)
Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration expects to spend about $630 million less than legislators authorized.
- CT budget leaders want to use massive savings to expand COVID-19 relief (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- CT budget leaders want to use massive savings to expand COVID-19 relief (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- CT budget leaders want to use massive savings to expand COVID-19 relief (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Spiking tax revenue will wipe out state budget deficit, analysts say (Category: USA, Arkansas)
A new proposal Tuesday would give middle class families with children their largest state income tax break in a decade.
- State Rep. Scanlon launches tax fairness debate with proposed $450M break for poor, middle class... (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- State Rep. Scanlon launches tax fairness debate with proposed $450M break for poor, middle class... (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- State Rep. Scanlon launches tax fairness debate with proposed $450M break for poor, middle class... (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Senate leader pitches new state property tax on high-value homes (Category: USA, Arkansas)
For weeks, an intelligence analyst monitored social media for the Secretary of the State's office. Then her contract ran out.
- Weeks after the election, Secretary of the State’s efforts to monitor disinformation campaigns e... (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Weeks after the election, Secretary of the State’s efforts to monitor disinformation campaigns e... (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Weeks after the election, Secretary of the State’s efforts to monitor disinformation campaigns e... (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Miguel Cardona’s ideas about education were forged in Meriden, CT. Now he will bring them to Was... (Category: USA, Arkansas)
By recently passing the Save Our Stages Act, a bipartisan bill co-sponsored by Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, in its COVID relief package, Congress has temporarily protected The Constitution State’s music industry from economic free fall. But are the courts now willing to do what’s necessary to provide the permanent security it needs and deserves?
- Keeping Connecticut’s music industry alive (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Keeping Connecticut’s music industry alive (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Keeping Connecticut’s music industry alive (Category: USA, Arkansas)
- Senate leader pitches new state property tax on high-value homes (Category: USA, Arkansas)
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