...Matt Lesser of Middletown, State Rep. Hilda Santiago of Meriden, and New Haven Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr., have also formed exploratory committees. A Republican has not served as Secretary of the State since 1995, but two GOP candidates have thrown their hats in the ring: Brock Weber, an aide to...
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...the process and find out what programs they are eligible for. Finding those people who are eligible for hardship protections but haven’t been signed up will be key over the next month, said Gannon Long, Director of Policy for Operation Fuel. Roswig said it’s a positive step that PURA has...
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...Yale New Haven Health voted this morning to appoint Chris O’Connor, the current president of the Health System, to the position upon her retirement. O’Connor, who was born at Yale New Haven Hospital, also served as the chief operating officer at Yale New Haven Health and the head of Saint...
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...and New Haven Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr., have also formed exploratory committees. The Connecticut Examiner spoke with Rapini about his campaign and priorities if elected. This interview has been edited for clarity. Why are you running for Secretary of the State? When I ran for United States Senate in 2018,...
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...committee in late August. Santiago has represented Meriden in the General Assembly since 2012. Three other possible Democratic candidates, State Sen. Matt Lesser of Middletown, Rep. Josh Elliott of Hamden, and New Haven Alderman Darryl Brackeen Jr., have also formed exploratory committees. A Republican has not served as Secretary of...
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...the department is required to establish public safety committees and advisory committees in municipalities where correctional facilities are located, seven of the 11 municipalities — New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, Uncasville, Brooklyn, Niantic and Suffield — have neither of these committees. According to the report, not having these committees “increases the...
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...tax breaks Senate President Martin Looney, D-New Haven, previously told CT Examiner that there was broad support among Democrats for the goals of TCI, but concerns over the burden it would place on low-income motorists meant there weren’t enough votes to pass it. Since the session ended in June, there...
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...a state car and causing a serious accident. The purported investigation still isn’t done and no discipline has been imposed. A year ago in May a state trooper was caught on video inflicting a crazed rant on a motorist he had stopped on Interstate 95 in New Haven, cursing and...
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...Holcomb, Executive Director of GBT. CT Transit ridership in Stamford, New Haven and Hartford has equally held up, recently down only 40% compared to Metro-North’s 60% drop. Why the difference in returning ridership between trains and buses? Because bus riders are much different than train riders. Most can’t work from...
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...this state until we get equity right,” said State Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, at a press conference before the passage of the law. Translating those goals into policy is the work of a 15-member social equity council appointed by Gov. Ned Lamont and state lawmakers to iron out the...
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...New Haven from the early 1800s until the late 1900s,” Sakamoto said. “This project will give the citizens of New Haven a great sense of their city’s history, and how it connects to the rest of New England.” Goode said the goal is to “make this section of trail a...
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...vaccine, although 13 children have been hospitalized for myocarditis across the Yale New Haven Health System. With the full authorization, Balcezak said, Yale New Haven Health and physicians who work in their health system are typically only providing exemptions for two major reasons: the first a prior episode of Guillain-Barre...
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...when forecasts are uncertain to avoid passing on unnecessary costs to customers. Under the direction of new CEO Joe Nolan, the company took a different approach to Henri, preparing for between 625,000 and 870,000 customers — 50 to 69 percent of Eversource customers — to lose power for between 8...
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...said Spera. In June 2020, a lawsuit was filed against the Old Saybrook Police Department by a woman who claimed that a police dog bit her after she was tackled by an officer, according to reporting in the New Haven Register. The department denied wrongdoing in the incident, which took...
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...year in Windham, and she’s very active around police accountability there. I’ve been doing a lot of work around organizing, trying to build new chapters, and recruiting candidates. How do you go about recruiting the right candidates to run under the Green Party? Green Party Co-Chair Dustin Fiore Fiore: We...
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Several shoreline Connecticut towns are under mandatory or voluntary evacuation orders in preparation for Hurricane Henri, which is expected to make landfall on Sunday. The National Weather Service has issued a Hurricane Watch for Henri from New Haven over to Westport, Mass., and Block Island. Rainfall is expected to start...
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A Do-It-Yourself Bike Repair Program in Hartford and West Hartford. An electric vehicle charging station in Essex. COVID-safe farmers markets in Bridgeport and New Haven. Invasive plant management along the Connecticut River. And community gardens, murals, and tree planting in towns and cities across the state. These are a few...
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Frank D’Andrea, who owns a Dunkin Donuts on Route 81 in Killingworth, and several others along the shoreline and New Haven area, applied to the Killingworth Planning and Zoning Commission last year to allow drive-thru windows in the town’s commercial areas. Last October, the commission unanimously approved the application, making...
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...4 years ago, the Federal Railroad Administration was forced to release a blueprint that essentially punted on the portion of the plan between New Haven and Providence, requiring instead a “New Haven to Providence Capacity Study” to eventually settle on a route. Apparently, that eventuality is now, and the newly...
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...required to have an outdoor area designated for smoking. Our further understanding of the law is that in places where smoking cigarettes is prohibited, marijuana will also be prohibited, which means it would be prohibited in our local parks which currently have ordinances against smoking.” New Haven officials have interpreted...
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...century after Korean hostilities ended, Korea is still divided. We haven’t defeated the communists in the North. Should we pull the plug? We have stationed tens of thousands of U.S. troops there — 23,000 troops today — ever since the early 1950s. Today, South Korea is an inspiring success, a...
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Concerns about the new Delta variant and its rapid spread have sparked new discussions over mask requirements and vaccine mandates, particularly in Connecticut’s schools. But medical professionals are also weighing a relatively new concern — physical and psychological symptoms that may affect an undetermined number of patients, including a small...
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...in 2010. While less diverse than New Jersey and New York, Connecticut ranks above Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. In 2010, 71.2 percent of Connecticut residents identified as white, and not Hispanic or Latino, with 13.4 percent of residents identifying as Hispanic or Latino and 9.4 percent...
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...and Immunology at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center said the center had seen only a “slight increase” in covid-related hospitalizations. Dr. Tom Murray at the Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital said that they were not seeing an increase in children hospitalized for COVID. He said that 1 to 2 children per...
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...cases. The joint talks began last month and involved legislators, police chiefs, and representatives from the state’s Department of Children and Families, the Public Defender’s office, the Judicial Branch and the State’s Attorney’s office. Both State Rep. Vincent Candelora, R-North Branford, and State Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, said that...
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ESSEX — Town officials are proposing a change in zoning around exit 3 on Route 9 – an idea that could be replicated in other parts of town, including Essex Village, if approved. The change is meant to give developers more flexibility to develop a variety of new projects in...
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New Haven Republican Party Chair John Carlson is running for mayor of New Haven. The city has not had a Republican mayor since 1953, and the local Republican party has not fielded a candidate in 14 years. Out of New Haven’s registered voters, 70 percent are Democrats, four percent are...
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...professional development for teachers. First-time candidates Haddam Democrats are running two newcomers: Stephen Bayley, an instructional design specialist at UConn Health, and Hamish MacPhail, a former Teach for America fellow in New Haven who is now policy and research director at ConnCAN, a non-profit education advocacy group. Haddam’s Republican candidates,...
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Despite concerns that a new funding formula would limit investment in affordable housing in the eastern portion of the state, the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority approved a plan to change how the agency scores applications for a highly sought after tax credit program. The new formula, based on census tract...
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...sit well with Nora Duncan, State Director at AARP-CT. Many older CT workers haven’t had a job interview in more than five years, she said. She believes state women across multicultural groups – including Latinos and Blacks – feel the pressure more acutely than men. “Women, in particular, see age...
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