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A coalition of Connecticut advocates wants a significant portion of this year’s $2.5 billion budget surplus allocated to offset recent federal funding cuts to social service programs.

The federal trial of Konstantinos “Kosta” Diamantis begins Monday, October 6. He oversaw Connecticut’s school construction grants from 2015 to 2021, served as deputy budget director during the last two years, and is accused of soliciting bribes and gifts from construction companies he hired.

Connecticut has resumed the erasure of low-level criminal convictions for tens of thousands of residents. More than 100,000 convictions are expected to be cleared this month.

Governor Ned Lamont said Connecticut will continue federally funded food assistance programs for state residents during the government shutdown.

Gov. Ned Lamont has signed a law that establishes November as Veterans’ Month in Connecticut. It’s one of two new laws honoring veterans that the governor signed at a VFW Post in East Hampton on Monday.

Connecticut is investing $50.5 million in public infrastructure to help grow a biotech and quantum technology innovation hub in downtown New Haven.

Dozens of people gathered outside WTNH headquarters in New Haven on Thursday to protest Nexstar, the parent company of the ABC affiliate, for refusing to air Jimmy Kimmel Live! after comments Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk — a move Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said was bad for Connecticut.

Connecticut has become the 40th state to sign an agreement with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to oversee the licensing and use of radioactive material.

Revolution Wind is back on track for completion next year after a federal judge lifted a Trump administration stop-work order on Monday, the governors of Connecticut and Rhode Island said at a news conference in New London on Tuesday.

Work will soon resume on Revolution Wind, the offshore wind project between Connecticut and Rhode Island that was halted under the Trump administration, according to Gov. Ned Lamont.