Capital Community College (CCC) is the recipient of a $149,426 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant focusing on the history and people of Hartford’s historic Talcott Street Church and Black School.
Read MoreThat insurance is a dominant Connecticut industry will come as no surprise to anyone. The industry, a mainstay for more than two centuries, is anything but stagnant. As the CT Insurance Market Brief points out, “A few years ago, insurance companies tended to look at InsurTechs as acompetitive, disruptive threat. Now, they tend to see a growth opportunity.”
Read MoreHartford is solidifying its reputation as a mecca for social enterprise start-ups. reSET, a non-profit business support organization based in Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood, has accepted 16 CT-based startups into their 2021 Impact Accelerator.
Read MoreThis year marks the 75th anniversary of one of the most important achievements in the history of the United States, and indeed the world: the triumph of justice and the rule of law over the desire for vengeance. Former Connecticut Senator Christopher J. Dodd reflects on his father’s legacy.
Read MoreCOVID-19 has created, for the first time in U.S. history, an economic downturn that has disproportionately affected women. This disparity, combined with other factors such as a crisis in child care, has created what has been termed a “She-cession”
Read MoreWhen schools shut down in March, teacher education programs were left scrambling. Eastern Connecticut State University’s highly regarded Early Childhood Education (CECE) filled the void, in Connecticut and beyond, when teachers were without placements where they could observe children in real time.
Read MoreFor environmentalists, passage by Congress this week of a federal budget package included, significantly, a long-sought repeal of a planned auction of Plum Island, in Long Island Sound. The action, ardently advocated for nearly a decade by scores of organizations and members of Congress across the region, opens a path “for permanent protection of this unique place and its critical habitats, endangered wildlife, and cultural history.”
Read MoreFor leading members of the incoming Biden administration’s environmental team, Monday’s announcement from states in which they’ve spend portions of their lives and careers had to be good news.
Read MoreThe daughter of immigrants to Connecticut from Kenya and the daughter of Afghan refugees who immigrated to Connecticut have accomplished in back-to-back years what no student of Connecticut’s state universities has ever done.
Read MoreVoters in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota approved marijuana legalization ballot initiatives last month. To date, over 36 states have legalized medical marijuana, including Connecticut, and 15 states have now legalized marijuana for adults 21 and over – so-called “recreational” marijuana. Connecticut is not one of them, but there’s a chance that may change next year.
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