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The head of Connecticut’s largest teachers union is against the state imposing a vaccine mandate for school staff. The union wants a mask mandate instead.

With new cases of coronavirus delta variant ticking up in Connecticut, a number of the state’s 169 towns and cities are reverting to virtual public meetings and reimplementing mask mandates in government buildings.

The buzz in Washington is that Congress is poised to make its biggest investment in rail since it created Amtrak from the ruins of 20 private railroads in 1971. Behind the headlines are hard realities. The political coalition behind the infrastructure bill is fragile, and the $66 billion it offers for rail over five years is both historic and inadequate. A little more than half would go to the northeast corridor between Boston and Washington, the one region where Amtrak runs trains at a profit.

About 70.3% of Connecticut’s population has received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose and 63.5% are fully vaccinated, according to CDC data.

Nearly all residents in Canaan, Connecticut, have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

A construction hub for offshore wind based in New London’s State Pier won approval from Connecticut’s top environmental body.

Gov. Ned Lamont called Tuesday evening for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign after an investigator’s report alleged that Cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women.

A year after keeping the price of taxpayer-funded purchases out of public view in an effort to protect private business, state Comptroller Kevin Lembo has changed course and released unredacted contracts between 10 vendors and the state for COVID-19 testing. The release came one day before Connecticut Public was set to argue for the full disclosure of the documents before a state public records panel.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said he wants to know why a bank merger could result in hundreds of layoffs — after bank leaders told state...

Fingerprinting services at many Connecticut police departments were delayed after a glitch surfaced in a new statewide fingerprinting system.