Connecticut extended its streak of job gains through July, pushing the state to its highest level of private-sector employment on record. That’s according to the..
. Connecticut residents who were still angry over this month’s electricity rate hike were gobsmacked this week when the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority voted unanimously to..
. Fight Back. Editorial cartoon by Bill Day.
Back to School (Are you sure it’s not a scam?). Editorial cartoon by Bob Englehart. Opinion columnist Elwood Watson says the undeniable truth is subjecting students to embarrassment because of a lack of funds to pay for a school lunch.
.. Phone-Free Schools .
.. Never A Problem In The Past.
Editorial cartoon by John Darkow. Back To School. Editorial cartoon by John Darkow.
Opinion columnist Tom Purcell says US Sen. Bernie Sanders has sponsored a bill to mandate paid vacations for all employees. Like so many of Bernie’s.
.. Advocates say the housing shortage is behind the increase in homelessness, citing as causes restrictive local zoning practices prioritizing large-lot, single-family homes over multi-family housing,.
.. Violence and horror continue to haunt Black Americans.
(Updated, Late Thursday) Connecticut residents are sharing outrage over their electricity bills this month, loudly and often, all over social media and on talk radio,...
Book Bans. Editorial cartoon by Pat Bagley. The abandoned Retreat drug rehab center on Ella T.
Grasso Boulevard in New Haven feels a bit “like the rapture,” a foreclosure-pursuing attorney said in state court on Friday. US Sen. Richard Blumenthal introduced a bill to ban weighted sleep products for infants Thursday after years of advocacy from parents and consumer watchdogs about.
.. Calling it a “moving and historic day,” US Sens.
Richard Blumenthal and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, are celebrating the Senate’s passage this week of their bipartisan...
A new study lends weight to fears that more livestock workers have gotten the bird flu than has been reported. The state Department of Labor’s Wage and Workplace Standards Division received or initiated nearly 850 complaint cases as of May 11, 2023, but they were..
. California lawmakers are pursuing legislation aimed at protecting children from the dangers of social media, one of many efforts around the country to confront what..
. Connecticut Republican Party Chairman Ben Proto offers a response to Rep. Christine Palm’s op-ed earlier this week.
HARTFORD, CT – A new report shows that despite advances in the rights that LGBTQIA+ residents in Greater Hartford enjoy, they still face greater challenges...
In a guest opinion column, state Rep. Christine Palm says that with the nation’s track record of assassinations and gun violence, she was not shocked..
. Political Violence. Editorial cartoon by Manna Francisco.
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