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A new state panel tasked with revitalizing Connecticut’s poor urban centers is recommending $76.5 million in financing for more than two dozen economic development projects in 12 communities.

At a small church in Bridgeport, one nonprofit has helped hundreds of domestic workers collect wages that were stolen from them.

Representatives from the Connecticut Employees Union Independent (CEUI) say that the University of Connecticut violated their contract when it moved 20 union workers from the athletic facilities to other locations on campus and hired new custodians through a private contractor.

It’s the first time a nonstop flight to Jamaica is being offered by an airline that operates out of Bradley, officials said.

Connecticut has reached a settlement of more than $60 million with cable and internet provider Frontier Communications. As part of the agreement, the Norwalk-based company will spend more than $40 million of that amount to upgrade internet service from DSL to fiber-optic cables, especially in economically distressed urban and rural communities.

A U.S. News report ranks Connecticut as the seventh-best state in the country for gender equality, based on factors related to economics, education, health, family planning and care, and representation in politics. Connecticut ranked in the top 10 behind three other New England states: Maine, Rhode Island and Vermont. So what is the region doing differently to promote equality for women?

The number of Connecticut residents seeking help paying their utility bills is already on a record pace, said the executive director of Hartford-based nonprofit Operations Fuel.

Gov. Ned Lamont and legislators spared Connecticut businesses from a special unemployment tax hike next month — and effectively helped them dodge a federal business tax increase in January. But business advocates say if state officials want to help businesses survive the next economic downturn, the government should give employers more help replenishing a state unemployment trust that was battered by the coronavirus pandemic.

A new lawsuit has exposed a deep rift between two of Paul Newman’s daughters and the late actor’s charitable foundation funded by profits from the Newman’s Own line of food and drink products.

Connecticut’s 2021 marijuana legalization act was intended to cultivate a state cannabis industry aimed at righting past wrongs by giving cannabis license preference to businesses majority-owned by people from groups that have suffered the most consequences from the drug war.