Coffee cart outside Democrats’ Senate Caucus Room in the Connecticut State Capitol is a sign that the May 6 adjournment is sneaking up.

Former Connecticut official not taking plea deal in second federal case He was found guilty on 21 felony charges in a previous trial.

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Former Connecticut official not taking plea deal in second federal case He was found guilty on 21 felony charges in a previous trial.

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Expanding CT's harm reduction centers could reduce drug overdoses, public health experts say “It was an important step on a long pathway,” said Robert Heimer, professor of epidemiology and pharmacology at the Yale Institute for Global Health

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CT's struggling dairy farmers push for more help from the state: 'We’re not breaking even' “It’s not looking good,” Grace Peckham, 22, said of her family's dairy farm. “We’re taking it year by year, really, hoping that things change.”

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Expanding CT's harm reduction centers could reduce drug overdoses, public health experts say “It was an important step on a long pathway,” said Robert Heimer, professor of epidemiology and pharmacology at the Yale Institute for Global Health

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Too many bills, too little time: Inside the CT legislature’s final sprint with 600 bills remaining www.ctpost.com/politics/art...

How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.

ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.

Here’s what we found.

(Published Nov. 2024)

Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%.

(Published May 2025)

The image consists of two main visual elements presented in a scrapbook-like layout against a white background: Portrait: A framed, slightly tilted photograph of author Barbara Kingsolver. She is a woman with wavy, chin-length salt-and-pepper hair, wearing round tortoiseshell glasses and a dark top. She is looking directly at the camera with a sweet and gentle smile. Book Cover: Overlaid on the bottom right corner of the portrait is the book cover for her novel, Demon Copperhead. The cover features a vibrant, dark blue background with a pattern of bright orange and yellow floral or leaf-like shapes. The title and author's name are printed in large, bold, yellow and white sans-serif text.

Best-selling novelist, essayist, and poet Barbara Kingsolver was born #OTD in 1955.

Her works include 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2023) for the novel 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥.

#booksky #litsky

Welcome to Ravenous We're a new, worker-owned food culture site. Let us tell you what we're all about.

A new worker-owned food publication: www.weareravenous.com/coming-soon/

Lawmakers press DDS officials about 'disturbing' report on abuse, neglect in CT's disability system “For too long, I think, people were not asking tough questions about the care of people with disabilities,” said Sen. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown.

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Lawmakers press DDS officials about 'disturbing' report on abuse, neglect in CT's disability system “For too long, I think, people were not asking tough questions about the care of people with disabilities,” said Sen. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown.

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Connecticut judicial nominee withdraws candidacy after questioning over his 2019 arrest “I understand the landscape, and do not wish to prolong the process,” John Shaban wrote to legislative leaders in withdrawing his candidacy.

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Connecticut judicial nominee withdraws candidacy after questioning over his 2019 arrest “I understand the landscape, and do not wish to prolong the process,” John Shaban wrote to legislative leaders in withdrawing his candidacy.

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A partially destroyed building in Iran. A headline reads: "‘Iran Is Being Destroyed in Front of Our Eyes’: Tehran Is Gripped by Fear." Photo by Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times

For five weeks, people in Iran have been caught in the cross-fires of the intensifying war with the U.S. and Israel. Residents of Tehran said in interviews and messages that the capital city was weathering heavy bombardment. trib.al/qEJ8cVl

The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA ob...

In his role overseeing federal climate rules at the EPA, former oil and gas lobbyist Aaron Szabo has solicited input and specific regulatory language from oil industry groups that stand to gain from watered-down methane rules, ProPublica has learned.

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A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

Nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz:
• paid himself $5M as a “ghost employee”
• diverted tens of millions owed to taxpayers & employees
• failed to pay at least 3 multimillion-dollar judgments awarded to grieving families

He also received a Trump pardon.

Peace Envoy Steve Witkoff’s Fortune Gets Bump From Trump And Musk The real estate mogul-turned-diplomat is 15% richer than he was a year ago thanks to his crypto venture with the Trump family and his stake in Musk’s SpaceX.

How Peace Envoy Steve Witkoff Got Richer Thanks To Trump And Elon Musk

On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

.@esqueer.net on why trans people are living within a “dual state” in Trump’s America: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Connecticut lawmakers debate public vs. private ownership of solid waste transfer station The solid waste transfer station in Torrington has been in operation for nearly 40 years, serving the northwest corner of Connecticut.

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CT company made parts for spacesuits worn by astronauts on Artemis II mission around the moon Squint at a photograph of the four Artemis II astronauts, and Connecticut residents can see spacesuit parts made in their own state.

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NPR's Fight: Defending Trust, Truth, and Your First Amendment Rights! #shorts YouTube video by National Press Foundation

@npr.org is standing firm on public trust, the First Amendment, and its journalistic mission, even when facing attacks, states NPR President and CEO Katherine Maher at NPF's Awards Dinner on March 12. #NPR #Journalism

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Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration to Hold ICE Shooters Accountable With the Trump administration refusing to identify agents or share evidence, the case is a game of constitutional chicken: states’ rights versus federal immunity.

Prosecutors are also investigating Gregory Bovino, the outgoing Border Patrol commander who was the face of the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota and who was seen on video lobbing smoke canisters into crowds in Minneapolis.

MULLINS!!!!!

Bill Murray sits with former UConn star at Elite Eight game vs. Duke Iconic actor Bill Murray has attended each of UConn's four NCAA Tournament games this season.

Last second Huskies in!!!Bill Murray sits with former UConn star Cam Spencer at Elite Eight game vs. Duke www.ctinsider.com/sports/uconn...

Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.

Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

#FridayReads
Happily doing homework for my public interview with crime writer Karen E. Olson April 2 at 7 p.m. at the Darien Library. ‘A Defiant Woman’ is the sequel to ‘An Inconvenient Wife’ - the novels move the murderous antics of King Henry VIII and the Tudor Era to contemporary America.

On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

Former Pentagon senior advisor @wesjbryant.bsky.social describes how Hegseth’s focus on lethality and dismissiveness towards “rules of engagement” puts human lives at risk: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...