Helen Bennett

1 week ago | courant.com | Helen Bennett

Some CT legislators call for more taxes on the rich. Will Lamont agree?

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Helen Bennett

As president and CEO of the Hartford Foundation, Jay Williams knows full well that there is an issue on the minds of people across the state and the nation: the negative impact that enormous student loans can have on college graduates. “Students who graduate college with crushing student loans, the ability to make life choices, buy a house, start a family, give back to the community, is limited,” Williams said.

4 weeks ago | courant.com | Helen Bennett

Mike Lauria says he was just “sick and tired of something controlling my life” when he decided to seek help. He had been drinking about 12 (sometimes more) shots of 100-proof alcohol a day at that point. Then he reached out to The Ridge, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in eastern Connecticut. It wasn’t open yet, so Lauria, now 50, waited. It was worth the wait, he said. He turned out to be a patient on its first day of operation in January 2024.

1 month ago | courant.com | Helen Bennett

Licensed Professional Counselor Yvette Bunting-Watts puts it simply: “No one enjoys feeling the lack of joy.”Bunting-Watts, knows the topic of mental health well, as she is the founder and CEO of Centerpiece Behavioral Health Services in Wallingford. It is a mental health practice with multiple types of services and has clients age 5 and older, as well as families.

1 month ago | courant.com | Helen Bennett

Dr. Ulysses Wu is worried. The chief epidemiologist and system director for infectious diseases at Hartford HealthCare has been worried before but this worry comes as the state, nation and world mark five years since the global pandemic that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said killed 1,222,603 people in the United States.