Two statistics are cause for concern as Connecticut residents approach a highway behind the wheel - this week, and thereafter: wrong-way driving and drowsy driving.
Read MoreA new report finds Connecticut consumers lost over $230,000 dollars to scams in 2022. According to the Better Business Bureau of Connecticut, consumers reported 400 scams in 2022, up nearly a quarter from the year before.
Read MoreA prominently placed full-page ad appeared in The New York Times a week ago, an open letter from “Hospital CEOs Across America” who signed their names “United to Fight Gun Violence,” as the ad headlined. CEOs from Connecticut’s leading hospital healthcare organizations were among them.
Read MoreConnecticut's General Assembly is considering legislation to establish sweeping nursing-home reforms, including minimum nursing-home staffing levels and stricter penalties for violations.
The 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 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 MoreA new report by the Connecticut Department of Public Health and the Connecticut Oral Health Initiative (COHI) found that tooth decay is the most common chronic infectious disease in children and is considered a significant public health challenge.
Read MoreAs nearly everyone who has been driving, cycling or walking on a Connecticut roadway since the pandemic began to recede will tell you, speeds have picked up, recklessness has increased, and the distractions and accompanying dangers are ever-present.
Read MoreConnecticut Attorney General William Tong is leading a multistate coalition of 51 attorneys general calling on the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to expand anti-robocall protections, in a 16-page letter sent to the federal agency on Tuesday.
Read MoreSeptember is National Suicide Prevention Month, which spotlights the issues in Connecticut and across the U.S.
Although suicide rates in Connecticut are low, there still are ways to prevent those deaths.
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