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With gasoline prices in Connecticut creeping to their highest levels in seven years, Gov. Ned Lamont conceded Tuesday he likely won’t be able to revive legislative interest in joining a regional Transportation Climate Initiative any time soon.

He said that he has been watching, and studying, Town Council meetings archived on YouTube for the past five years, adding that Dickinson was not much older than he is now when he won his first election for Wallingford mayor in 1983. One of the biggest jobs for the Wallingford mayor is to create a proposed annual town budget, which the Town Council can amend. David Gessert, a former Republican Town Council member from 1973 to 1987, who served three years as council chairman and was a Public Utilities Commission member for 24 years, said Dickinson has made steady improvements while working hard to keep costs under control

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.

A new budget airline will begin flights from New Haven this fall, and the company that manages Tweed, Avports, is offering to spend millions to expand the airport. But records obtained by Connecticut Public show the airport is also facing new financial risks.

A proposal to burn about 2,500 tons of old coal at a major Hartford trash plant is getting a strong rebuke from state regulators. But the Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority said Wednesday that burning the coal in Hartford is “the most environmentally sound” way to get rid of it.

Electric vehicle adoption in Connecticut has a long way to go if the state wants to hit an ambitious target of getting more than 125,000 electric vehicles on the state’s roadways by 2025. And while this year has seen a spike in EV sales, overall registrations are still far off the goal.

The RecycleCT Foundation has launched a new app that will allow Connecticut residents to discover what items do and don't belong in the recycling bin.

Non-unionized managers who work for Connecticut getting 7.5% raise and $2,000 bonus

Hartford Healthcare has joined some other hospital systems in the state in requiring employees to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Hospital leaders say the shots will keep staff healthy, and reduce the possibility of exposing patients to the virus.

Connecticut's $40 billion pension debt gets some relief