Mark Pazniokas / CT Mirror

It’s been 72 years since anyone has unseated a Connecticut governor. Republican Ryan Fazio, a state senator, faces incumbent Ned Lamont, a Democrat.

Stephanie Thomas said she called a press conference to reassure the voting public and combat misinformation, albeit with no information other than an indication in a CNN report that the Homeland Security Investigations office of DHS was interested in finding noncitizens on the voter rolls.

Ryan Fazio, Republican gubernatorial candidate, laid out his housing ideas Thursday. They include unspecified reforms to building codes and mandating that municipalities streamline permitting processes to make them faster.

After a high-stakes primary in which U.S. Rep. John Larson was soundly defeated by a younger challenger, it could be hard for U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal — and other aging members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation — to dodge questions about age and the calls for generational change that are sure to play a role in future campaigns.

Nancy S. Wyman, a prescient voice of caution about Connecticut’s unfunded pension liability as state comptroller, then the lieutenant governor who gave Democrats a crucial tie-breaking vote as the presiding officer in an evenly divided state Senate, died Wednesday. She was 80.

Connecticut Democrats go to the polls today in two high-stakes primaries: An ideological fight over whether to stay the course with Gov. Ned Lamont or opt for a liberal challenger, Josh Elliott; and a generational challenge to Congressman John Larson by former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, State Rep. Jillian Gilchrest and Hartford attorney Ruth Fortune.

Officials outlined plans to provide faster service by 2035 on the New Haven line, one of the oldest, busiest and pokiest stretches of commuter rail in the U.S.

Gov. Ned Lamont and his top public safety official acknowledged the presence of federal ICE agents at Bradley International Airport without being able to say if it signaled a new emphasis on immigration enforcement by the Trump administration in Connecticut.

An undocumented immigrant in Connecticut had been registered to vote through the DMV system in 2018. But he never voted.

Josh Elliott labored to exploit his only televised debate with Gov. Ned Lamont, twice tagging the two-term governor as “dangerously naive,” incapable of meeting a pivotal moment in American politics. Lamont casually dismissed Elliott as a state lawmaker of sound bites and no accomplishments.