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Commentator David Bouchier remembers a chain of restaurants that seemed to symbolize America.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., center, and other Democratic senators call for gun control legislation in the wake of the mass shooting in an Orlando LGBT nightclub this week, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 16, 2016. He is joined by, from left, Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Rev. Sharon Risher, a clinical trauma chaplain in Dallas who lost her mother Ethel Lance in the racially-motivated shooting at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, N.C., in 2015, Tina Meins, whose father Damian was a county employee in San Bernardino who was shot and killed at his office by a co-worker and his wife who pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2015, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Connecticut’s advocates against gun violence say the bipartisan gun safety package proposed in the Senate is a good first step.

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2020 file photo, a Monarch butterfly pauses in a field of Goldenrod at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. In scientific papers released Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, scientists say they worry that the world is losing about 1% or 2% of its insects each year to climate change, insecticides, herbicide, land use changes, invasive species and light pollution. Monarch butterflies are among well known species that best illustrate insect problems and declines, according to University of Connecticut entomologist David Wagner, lead author in the special package of studies written by 56 scientists from around the globe. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Teaching climate change

Connecticut has a mandate to teach Climate Change in schools. In May lawmakers approved a law that says the topic must be included in the science curriculum. But is it necessary?

Does affordable housing mean unsafe housing?

Connecticut needs nurses

As a nursing shortage continues across Connecticut, one official at Sacred Heart University is offering a solution.

The push for a special session

Connecticut’s diesel fuel tax will go up about 9 cents.

The state of Suffolk

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone delivered his State of the County address last night.

Proactive and predictive

Suffolk County will initiate new active shooter training for local schools.

Battle for the beach

The Shinnecock Nation wants free beach access for tribal members in Southampton.

Silver Sands State Park in Milford, Connecticut

No car? No problem.

Park Connect CT will help travelers get to popular Connecticut spots via local transit.

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