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Contentious compromise

By Sabrina Garone
Published November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM EST
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House and Senate Majority Leaders Jason Rojas and Matt Ritter speak to the media.
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House and Senate Majority Leaders Jason Rojas and Matt Ritter speak to the media.

The Connecticut House approves a revised version of a controversial affordable housing bill. A short-term spending bill passed in Congress gets mixed support from our region’s lawmakers. One of Long Island’s oldest farms took on serious damage in a fire yesterday. The cop charged in the Randy Cox paralysis case will not serve prison time. Plus, an effort in New York to make therapeutic use of cannabis more accessible.

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Sabrina Garone
Sabrina is host and producer of WSHU’s daily podcast After All Things. She also produces the climate podcast Higher Ground and other long-form news and music programs at the station. Sabrina spent two years as a WSHU fellow, working as a reporter and assisting with production of The Full Story.
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