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  • Book Review: Botticelli
    Yale University Press has published a catalog highlighting rarely-seen drawings and prints by the pre-eminent Renaissance Italian painter, Botticelli. Book critic Joan Baum has this review.
  • Book Review: Prequel
    A group of ultra-right extremists in New York City organized to overthrow the U.S. government. And they nearly succeed. It was just one plot in a broad effort to replace Democracy with Fascism in the 1940’s. Our book critic Joan Baum read all about it in journalist Rachel Maddow’s latest work, Prequel.
  • Land-based wind turbines spin in Atlantic City N.J. on Nov. 3, 2023. On Friday, Nov. 17, New Jersey utility regulators voted to seek bids for an energy transmission project to help bring power from ocean-based turbines to the onshore electrical grid.
    A win for wind
    Long Island nurses in the Northwell Health system avoid a strike. Governor Lamont wants Connecticut towns to share some resources. Offshore wind projects planned for Long Island’s south shore get final federal approval. And has Connecticut’s increased minimum wage created a living wage?
  • FILE - A hiring sign is in front of a Target store in Manchester, Conn., Nov. 39, 2021. Workers at Target stores and distribution centers in places like New York, where competition for finding and hiring staff is the fiercest, could see starting wages as high as $24 an hour this year. The Minneapolis-based discount retailer said Monday, Feb. 28, 2022 that it will adopt minimum wages that range from $15 to $24 an hour, with the highest pay going to hires in the most competitive markets. It currently pays a universal starting wage of $15 an hour. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
    Minimum wage vs. a living wage
    The minimum wage in Connecticut is now $15 an hour. But it doesn’t end there. The minimum wage law allows for yearly increases to keep up with inflation. Will this new adjustment help to workers in the state earn a living wage?
  • Fire Island Lighthouse at Robert Moses State Park.
    Preserving our parks
    Governor Lamont endorses Joe Ganim for mayor of Bridgeport. A new Siena College poll doesn’t look good for Governor Hochul. Connecticut Democrats lay out their legislative priorities. And this year marks the 100th anniversary of New York’s state parks!
  • Bridgeport's Washington Park
    Respiratory risks
    Fairfield County has some of the worst ozone pollution on the eastern seaboard. Southampton will again delay construction of a battery energy storage system. And Connecticut university officials are not happy with proposed cuts in funding.
  • The Jupiter syndrome
    Commentator David Bouchier observes that the politics of the ancient Roman empire sounds all too familiar.
  • Kelly Taylor helps her kindergarten students with their classwork at Breakthrough Magnet School in Hartford.
    Kindergarten confusion
    Connecticut parents are confused over a new law on Kindergarten eligibility. The South Fork Wind project enters its final stages. And a new exhibit at the New Haven Museum documents black history in the city.
  • Leap of faith
    Commentator David Bouchier reminds single men why they should be careful on the coming Leap Year Day.
  • Kelly Taylor helps her kindergarten students with their classwork at Breakthrough Magnet School in Hartford.
    New CT kindergarten law has left parents, school districts scrambling
    WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with CT Mirror’s Jessika Harkay to discuss her article, “New CT law on kindergarten age cutoff causing confusion,” as part of the collaborative podcast Long Story Short.
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