The aftershocks from the debacle that was the transition of the merger between People’s United and M&T Bank continue to be felt, now at the state legislature.
Read MoreOne could almost feel the excitement emanating from the hundreds of species that know Plum Island as their home when the good news arrived at year’s end. Years of diligent efforts by the Protect Plum Island Coalition, and supporters in Congress, had earned a breakthrough.
Read MoreCommon Cause in Connecticut, the local affiliate of a national organization, is urging legislative action on a series of proposal to expand and protect voting in Connecticut.
Read MoreConnecticut Main Street Center has launched a new Annual Assessment tool for member communities. The metric-based scoring system will provide CMSC’s 80+ community members across the state with a way to measure the success of their initiatives to boost downtowns.
Read MoreThe Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) is focusing its attention on six legislative priorities for the 2023 legislative session at the State Capitol. The organization is urging Governor Lamont and state legislatures to take specific action on each of the proposals before the regular session ends in the first week of June.
Read MoreFree CT Transit bus service in Connecticut, instituted during the peak of the COVID pandemic, will come to an end on March 31, 2023 unless the state legislature acts to extend it. That is a real possibility now that legislation that is to be considered in the coming weeks by General Assembly’s Transportation Committee.
Read MoreIn recent months in Connecticut, news headlines have highlighted the significant increase in pedestrian-vehicle accidents on roadways across the state. The numbers have been on the rise here and across the country in recent years, and newly compiled Connecticut data points to “the most dangerous areas for pedestrians” – locations where pedestrians may be at higher risk of being struck.
Read MoreConnecticut State Treasurer Erick Russell, in office for not quite a month, is encouraging Connecticut residents to search CTBigList.com to see if the state is holding any unclaimed money that is just waiting to be returned.
Read MoreWorking your way through school is much more of an uphill climb today than 30 years ago, a look at college tuition and minimum wage employment shows, according to a new report and analysis. Nationwide, on average, today’s students will need to work four times as many hours to meet the cost of tuition.
Read MoreAmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, has released its Volunteering and Civic Life in America research, the most comprehensive data on American volunteering and civic engagement assembled. While Connecticut was not among the national leaders, volunteerism continued to run strongly through the state.
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