
CT Mirror
CollaborationLaunched in 2010, The Connecticut Mirror specializes in in-depth news and reporting on public policy, government and politics. CT Mirror is nonprofit, non-partisan, and digital only.
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Study shows extending health coverage to all undocumented residents in Connecticut would cost 3% of the state’s annual Medicaid budget.
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Metro-North’s New Haven Line recently had its highest ridership day since the pandemic began.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski says a promised-then-canceled tax cut is the same as a tax hike. Democrats disagree.
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With just over one week to go before more stringent pension limits take effect, more than 4,400 state employees either have retired this calendar year or filed their written intention to step down before July 1, according to new numbers released Wednesday by Comptroller Natalie Braswell’s office.
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The state argues that the review board lacks jurisdiction to hear the appeal because Kosta Diamantis did not resign in good standing. A hearing is set for September.
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Connecticut towns and cities are spending millions of dollars of federal stimulus funds to install police surveillance systems in local communities, enabling law enforcement officials to more easily track people’s movements and potentially solve crimes.
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Connecticut health officials are poised to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine to the last remaining age group that has been unable to get it: children ages 6 months to 4 years old.
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Early in the pandemic, as COVID cases rose, school attendance dropped. And the issue lingered deep into this school year. Programs such as the one implemented in New Britain have aimed to incentivize attendance.
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Yale University researchers collecting samples from a New Haven water treatment facility found substantially fewer incidences of the virus in recent samples than were recorded a month ago.
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On Tuesday, the governor stood outside a police station in suburban Windsor to promote a Connecticut law passed in 1999 and revised in 2012. It allows police to get a risk warrant, a court order allowing the seizure of firearms from individuals deemed an imminent risk to themselves or others.