ConnectiCare to Stop Selling Fully Insured Small Group Plans
Health insurance provider ConnectiCare will stop selling new fully insured small group plans later this week as it begins to depart from a market in which it currently insures just over 20,000 Connecticut residents. Read it here!
Lamont Signs Special Session Bill
Gov. Ned Lamont signed the sweeping 28-page bill that extends a suspension of Connecticut’s gas tax, supplements funding for energy assistance and sets aside more money for an essential workers’ bonus pay program. Upon signing the bill Tuesday, Lamont said it will make Connecticut “a little bit more affordable.” Read it here!
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Bronin Won't Seek Third Term As Hartford Mayor
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, who led Connecticut’s capital city from the verge of bankruptcy to fiscal stability by winning passage of a state-financed bailout in 2017 and rallying business leaders, announced Tuesday he will not seek re-election in November 2023. Read it here
Darien School Board Rejects Open Choice Again, Meaning No Norwalk Kindergartners For 2023-24
Darien's Board of Education unanimously rejected implementing Open Choice in the next school year. Read it here
Senate Passes Same-sex Marriage Protections
The bill now heads to the House, where Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said the chamber will take it up as soon as next week. Read it here!
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HEALTH COST HEARING will take place at 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 1 at the LOB.
CT SOLID WASTE ADVISORY COMMITTEE will meet via Zoom on Jan. 24.
WINTERFEST in downtown Hartford will open at 9 a.m. on Dec. 3.
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Most towns have strict zoning codes and they don't generally hesitate to enforce them. Sometimes there are gray areas in the law, the parties cannot agree and the matter winds up in court. On rare occasions, national politics intrudes. Welcome to Washington – not the District of Columbia, but the sleepy town of 3,500 in Litchfield County. Read it here from Terry Cowgill
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