The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE), is slated to begin scaling the New England Transfer Guarantee to Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont this month, building on a successful launch in Connecticut and Massachusetts last year.
Read MoreThe impact of the pandemic on Connecticut’s small and very small businesses is plainly evident, a review of data compiled at the start of the year by the Connecticut Small Business Development Center (CT SBDC) illustrates.
Read MoreThe long and the short of it. That may be the best way to describe the tenure of recent presidents at the state’s flagship university - the University of Connecticut. Two of the past three presidents have resigned abruptly after having served less that three years. The search for who’s next has yet to begin.
Read MoreConnecticut, and many of its municipalities, are looking for business. All one needs to do is flip thru the pages of the most recent edition of Site Selection magazine and it’s apparent that the drive to attract business has intensified across the country, and Connecticut is no exception.
Read MoreAt the start of state legislative sessions in 2021, approximately 2,259 women were serving in the 50 state legislatures across the country, making up 30.6% of all state legislators nationwide - an all-time high. Connecticut’s percentage was higher, and also an all-time high.
Read MoreAs we head into the summer season, the number of Long Island beaches reporting excellent water quality is 13% higher than previous years, based on data released this month by nonprofit Save the Sound in the organization’s 2021 Long Island Sound Beach Report.
Read MoreConnecticut’s population grew by nine-tenths of one percent during the decade between April 2010 and April 2020, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Connecticut had 3,605,944 residents on April 1, 2020, compared with 3,574,097 on April 1, 2010, the date of the previous decennial census. That’s an increase of 31,847 residents.
Read MoreTwenty-one students from across Connecticut received awards this month at the nation’s 2021 National History Day® (NHD) Contest. It is the highest number of awards ever for a Connecticut delegation to the annual National History Day awards event.
Read MoreConnecticut Congressman Jim Himes’s past, it turns out, is prologue for a new, high-profile, assignment. Himes was selected by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve as Chairman of a newly created Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth, leading the Congressional effort to respond to a growing disparity that has been exacerbated - and more blatantly exposed - by the pandemic.
Read More“We will likely need a booster shot for durability of protection,” explained Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on a Connecticut-based podcast this week, adding that unlike vaccines for some other diseases – such as measles - that essentially offer lifelong projection, “we are not likely to see that.”
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