House leaders calm lawmakers ticked off by colleague’s TikTok
House Speaker Matt Ritter denounced a video posted on social media by a first-term Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Nick Menapace of East Lyme.
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A 41-year-old Fair Havener was taking his seven-month-old son to daycare when he was suddenly surrounded by five federal immigration agents.
Leadership shake-up at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford
Saint Francis Hospital announced it is firing its president effective immediately. Trinity Health Of New England will also have a new CEO.
Senate passes bill creating long-term care insurance safeguards
Senators on Thursday advanced a bill that imposes consumer safeguards and requires greater financial transparency from insurance companies.
Last-minute revenue surge makes path to new CT budget easier
Analysts estimate that surging income tax receipts and other revenue would add about $580 million to CT’s coffers this fiscal year and next.
Child Advocate letter points to DCF failings as CT House approves new oversight
In a letter, Connecticut’s Office of the Child Advocate condemned the declining quality of casework at the child welfare agency.
CT lawmakers drop effort to ban Styrofoam takeout containers — again
House Democrats aren’t moving ahead with HB 5524, which would have implemented a ban on food service products containing polystyrene.
Spring peeper, herald of warmer weather, could become CT state amphibian
CT House advanced a bill tying the tiny messenger of winter’s end indelibly to the state’s identity by a vote of 136-0. The Senate is next.
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