Laura Bailey

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by John Moritz, CT Mirror | published April 13, 2025 | Editor’s note: We are now offering an audio version of our Sunday features. To access, click on the player above. Connecticut produces more trash than it can handle. Nearly three years after dousing the flames at the state’s largest waste incinerator, officials are still searching for way to deal with the mess created by the thousands of tons of trash local residents produce each day.

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by Laura Tillman | CT MirrorDisability advocates gathered in front of Hartford’s Superior Court on Thursday to announce a lawsuit that contends that the lower income requirements for the disabled to qualify for Medicaid are discriminatory and violate the state constitution. “We require people with disabilities to be extremely poor to quote-unquote deserve state-sponsored health care,” said Rep. Anne Hughes, D-Easton.

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by Jan Ellen SpiegelDavid Buck got the good news late last month. Federal funding he had been awarded for his Southbury goat and cow dairy —Guardians Farm — was being “unpaused.”Buck had signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, on January 17 to access just under $10,000 to set up a rotational grazing system, do seeding and run waterlines for three pastures.

1 month ago | bristoledition.org | Laura Bailey

by John Moritz and Andrew Brown, CT MirrorAn enforcement arm of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority began looking into a company owned by state Sen. John Fonfara, D-Hartford, late last year to determine whether it was illegally operating as an unlicensed business on Connecticut’s third-party electric marketplace.

1 month ago | bristoledition.org | Laura Bailey

by Laura Tillman, CT MirrorThis story has been updated. Several Republican lawmakers spoke out Wednesday against the effort to pass legislation designed to deter book banning in Connecticut libraries. They argue that parents should have direct input into which books are taken off library shelves, particularly regarding those that contain material about sexuality. “The focus should really be on local parental control with the local boards of education,” said Rep.