The Appropriations Committee unanimously passed a plan to spend $2.8 billion in federal COVID-relief funds, including paying down $310 million in unemployment funds borrowed from the federal government to pay the massive influx of unemployment
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The Department of Public Health dropped its fines against Audrey Hussey of Putnam, one of the first state residents hit with fines for allegedly violating Gov. Ned Lamont’s travel restrictions. Hussey had traveled to New
On July 25, 2020, Audrey Hussey left her rented house in Putnam, Connecticut and caught a flight from Providence, Rhode Island to New Orleans. The trip would fulfill two long-time dreams for Audrey: To visit
The Department of Consumer Protection sent an email to local elected officials, health officials and emergency management directors on Thursday asking them to report any COVID-related rumors they may find on social media so the
On the day Connecticut received its first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine, approximately sixty restaurant owners and employees marched in a cold rain outside the Governor’s Residence in Hartford to protest against the possibility of
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday struck down a challenge to Gov. Charlie Baker’s emergency powers in a lawsuit similar to those filed in Connecticut, including one that will be heard in Connecticut Supreme
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Tuesday that he is extending the public health emergency declaration until February 9, which also allows his executive orders to remain in effect. The governor’s emergency powers were set to expire
Gov. Ned Lamont’s emergency powers under the public health and civil preparedness emergency statutes are set to expire on September 9, six months after he was granted those powers by a vote of legislative leaders
Gov. Ned Lamont issued an executive order Friday that extended his April 17 order requiring face masks to be worn in public places where six feet of social distancing cannot be maintained. The order, signed
Meeting in special session, the Connecticut House of Representatives yesterday voted on an eclectic range of bills, with the most controversial centering on police reform and voting changes. Protesters outside the Capitol included unionized nursing home workers and teachers; police; self-designated representatives of Black Lives Matter; and
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