Never Seen Anything Like It (in Connecticut)
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High on a hill overlooking the Housatonic River in the Putney section of Stratford is a collection of structures as strange as any you’ll find anywhere in Connecticut.
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Today's Students of Black History Look Back at Hartford Church
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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 MoreConnecticut's Insurance Industry: Dominant and Driving Innovation
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That 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 MoreEntrepreneurial Start-Ups Descend on Hartford
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Hartford 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 MoreMy Father’s Legacy: Thomas Dodd and the Nuremberg Trials
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This 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 MoreIs CT Experiencing a She-cession? Let's Find Out.
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COVID-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 MoreEastern’s Early Childhood Education Center Fills ‘Virtual’ Void for Teacher Prep Programs
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When 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 MoreLong Island Sound's Plum Island May Yet Be Saved, Environmentalists Hail Congressional Action After Decade of Advocacy
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For 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 MoreCT's Multi-State Pact to Limit Emissions Is Good News for Biden Environmental Team
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For 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 MoreDaughters of Immigrants Selected as Rhodes Scholars Back-to-Back in Firsts for UConn, Southern
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The 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.
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