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5 days ago | 
ctmirror.org | Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
The election of a new pope has Connecticut Catholics talking. Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church on Thursday. Prevost took the name Leo XIV. Archbishop Christopher Coyne, head of the Archdiocese of Hartford, said he was not expecting a decision to come so soon.
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1 week ago | 
ctmirror.org | Chris Polansky |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
At the Congregational Church in South Glastonbury, Judy Doering is discussing her volunteer work on behalf of new arrivals to the country. “It kind of is a calling for me,” Doering says. She’s just spent her afternoon helping an Afghan family apply for WIC benefits. Doering’s group of church volunteers helps new arrivals with everything — finding housing, grocery shopping, English lessons, trips to the mosque.
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1 week ago | 
ctmirror.org | John Smith |JOhn Smith |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Hamden homeowners are facing steep property tax increases this year following a state-mandated revaluation that has left residents and Mayor Lauren Garrett scrambling to respond. In a letter to residents in mid-April, Garrett warned that the assessed value of homes had risen by an average of 55%.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Maysoon Khan |Connecticut Public |Erica Phillips
After years of delays, state officials are now targeting fall 2025 to resume the automatic erasure of most old criminal records under Connecticut’s Clean Slate law. The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP), which is overseeing the law’s implementation, was approved for $10 million in state bond funding in April to put toward the project.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Eddy Martinez |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Several international students in Connecticut can now resume their employment and studies after their records were restored in a federal database, according to the University of Connecticut.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Daniela Doncel |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
At a community center in New Haven, members of the immigrant community are putting on a kind of play. Two volunteers pretend to cook over a stove when another pair acting as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents comes knocking at the cardboard cutout of a door. This is the set up for a skit that undocumented advocates put on at their Know Your Rights training sessions. Rojas helps organize them.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Eddy Martinez |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Connecticut (ACLU) is suing the federal government for unlawfully terminating the student status records of four international students who are studying in Connecticut. The ACLU says the actions by the Trump administration now put their student visas in jeopardy.
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2 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Sujata Srinivasan |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Fairfield County, Connecticut, is among the 25 most polluted counties in the U.S. for ozone pollution, according to the annual State of the Air report from the American Lung Association. Ruth Canovi, the association’s director of advocacy in Connecticut, said year after year, Fairfield County used to have the worst ozone pollution east of the Mississippi. “This year, actually, there was one metro area that has worse worsening ozone than we do,” she said. “But that’s not because we’ve improved.
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3 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Abigail Brone |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Rising rent and mortgage interest rates are causing a squeeze on Fairfield County’s housing market. Developers in Connecticut are looking for ways to ease the squeeze placed on middle-income renters.
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3 weeks ago | 
ctmirror.org | Eddy Martinez |Connecticut Public |Gabby DeBenedictis
Four international students living in Connecticut are suing the federal government after learning their student visas are now in jeopardy. In a complaint filed last week, the students accused officials from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of unlawfully terminating their student status, stripping them of their ability to pursue their studies and maintain employment in the United States.
