As Connecticut imposes a 10 cents tax on single-use plastic bags beginning August 1, most of the attention has been on food stores, but the new tax applies more broadly. Stop at your local pharmacy to pick up a prescription along with a few additional items, and that same tax will greet you at the checkout counter.
Read MoreThere’s good news and plenty of other news in an ambitious study of the arts community in Greater Hartford, initiated by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the Connecticut Office of the Arts last year and released in final form this spring.
Read More‘Best Practices in Land Use and Economic Development’ by municipalities in Connecticut will soon be able to earn recognition through a new industry certification program aimed at highlighting outstanding practices, coordinated by the Connecticut Economic Development Association (CEDAS).
Read MoreNationwide, there appears to have been a nearly 5% reduction in overdose deaths nationwide in 2018, according to provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. Connecticut’s drop was less than the national average
Read MoreThree of Connecticut’s metropolitan areas are among the top 50 most educated in the nation, according to a new analysis. The Bridgeport/Norwalk/Stamford, Hartford/East Hartford/West Hartford and New Haven/Milford “metropolitan statistical areas” ranked 11th, 24th and 41st respectively. And in one metric, one metro region ranked first in the nation.
Read MoreThe University of New Haven has received a $4 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant – the largest federal grant in the University’s history – to create Connecticut’s first CyberCorps® Scholarship for Service program, which will educate the next generation of professionals charged with protecting the nation from cyberattacks.
Read MoreConnecticut Sen. Chris Murphy and Rep. Jahana Hayes are urging Congress to act in response to data that indicates a surprising number of college students go hungry on campus.
Read MoreIndividuals and foundations in Connecticut gave $4.97 billion in charitable contributions during 2016, falling slightly from the prior year’s $5 billion giving total, according to the Connecticut Council for Philanthropy (CCP). The decline in Connecticut individual giving occurred even as individual giving grew by 6% nationally.
Read More12,000 individual donors participated in a 36-hour online giving event held over two days in May for Greater New Haven nonprofit organizations. The $1.8 million raised for more than 390 nonprofits surpassed the event’s previous record set last year. The Great Give was indeed.
Read MoreIllinois became the 11th state in the nation to legalize recreational cannabis this week, as the issue continues to face an uncertain future in Connecticut, with the state’s business community among those raising questions that slowed progress to the point of inaction in the just-concluded legislative session.
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