Mark Pazniokas / CTMirror.org
Mark Pazniokas
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The Lamont administration’s ambitious plan to overhaul Connecticut’s waste-disposal and recycling system is being scaled back by legislators in the face of opposition from the industry and some municipalities.
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Gov. Ned Lamont rejected calls Wednesday by business owners and House Republicans to pause the collection of a new mileage tax on tractor-trailers that raised $4.3 million in its first month, the majority from out-of-state truckers.
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Karen Hobert Flynn was responsible for analyzing the legislation behind the state’s public financing program.
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A Connecticut bill would require transparency and set limits on quotas in warehouses. It's aimed at regulating Amazon’s use of quotas and biometric surveillance to keep warehouse workers “on task".
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SEIU 1199 members staged civil disobedience provoke arrests and publicize demand for better health coverage.
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Democrats claimed victory Tuesday night in special elections for three Connecticut House seats opened by the death of Quentin Williams, D-Middletown, and resignations of Dan Fox, D-Stamford, and Edwin Vargas Jr., D-Hartford.
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Connecticut recycles slightly more than half its trash, the fifth-best performance in the U.S. behind Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts and Oregon. But officials at MIRA say DEEP needs to be more aggressive in regulating the flow of trash and recyclables to protect both the environment and the finances of a trash disposal infrastructure expected to only get more expensive.
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University of Connecticut’s new president, Radenka Maric, lowered the temperature of her budget fight with Gov. Ned Lamont on Wednesday without retreating from her position that his administration is trying to shortchange the flagship university by $357 million over the next two years.
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Frustrations over Connecticut’s high cost of electricity and concerns over its ability to adequately regulate Eversource, the state’s largest distributor of electricity, are fueling a bipartisan effort to revise the complex rules of utility regulation for the second time in three years.
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With his second round of gun-safety proposals in four days, Gov. Ned Lamont would update Connecticut’s 1993 ban on military-style weapons, strengthen its post-Sandy Hook law and generally test the desire of the public and General Assembly for further gun controls.