Childcare related costs continue to rise across the country, creating great challenges for working parents, particularly working mothers. A new transportation business arriving in Connecticut this month aims to respond to the growing need for assistance in getting young children from point A to point B.
Read MoreThe national Governors Highway Safety Association annual spotlight report projects that drivers nationwide struck and killed 7,485 people walking in 2021 – the most in a single year in four decades. The trend in Connecticut and nine other states is less grim.
Read MoreConnecticut ranked 35th among the states in gun licenses in 2021, with 74,874. In the Land of Steady Habits, fewer than one-quarter of adults – 23.6% - indicate they have a firearm in their home. Yet Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, and New Jersey all saw total estimated gun sales climb between 2020 and 2021, while other states saw a slight decline from the previous record year.
Read MoreMain Street programs in Hartford, New Haven, Simsbury and Waterbury have been designated as Accredited Main Street America™ programs for meeting rigorous performance standards, and in recognition of their exceptional commitment to preservation-based economic development and community revitalization.
Read MoreTraffic fatalities in Connecticut jumped more than 10 percent between 2020 and 2021, slightly higher than the national increase, according to official federal government estimates.
Read MoreThe tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14, 2012 spurred the establishment of numerous organizations dedicated to urging legislative action at the state and federal level, many honoring the memory of students killed on that day, in the months that followed. It also led to new gun safety laws in Connecticut - a state that has not been part of the increases in such incidents in states across the country.
Read MoreWith firearm deaths in Connecticut and across the country on the rise, a new initiative in Hartford aims to interrupt gun violence through a partnership between community organizations and hospitals.
Read MoreThe Connecticut legislature is considering legislation that would make a number of changes in state law, all under the umbrella of “traffic mitigation,” according to the bill’s title - ranging from the management of traffic accidents to the use of drones and high occupancy vehicle lanes.
Read MoreConnecticut, with 169 municipalities, has 94 separate and distinct municipal police departments employing a total of 6,527 police officers. Nineteen of the departments employ 100 or more police officers.
Read MoreMore than 500 guns were purchased and 350 gun safes were distributed on a Saturday in October in Connecticut, in what was billed as the first Statewide Gun Buyback. Participating communities, under the umbrella of the #KeepKids Safe initiative, included Bridgeport, Guilford, Hartford, Newtown, Norwalk, Stamford and Waterbury.
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