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Students, teachers and school administrators were gathered at the steps of the Meriden Board of Education building Tuesday in support of an increase to Connecticut’s core school funding grant when they got some bad news from their state senator, Jan Hochadel. The legislature’s Appropriations Committee had proposed flat-funding the grant for yet another year. A wave of “boos” passed through the crowd. “Oh yeah. We need it louder!” Hochadel said. “Boo!” several members of the crowd shouted.

If words won wars, then the braggadocio and jingoism spewed by President Trump and his so-called Secretary of “War, Pete Hegseth, would have won wars “the likes of which the world has never seen.” Indeed, according to the president, the war in Ukraine would never have occurred had he been President when Russia invaded its neighbor.

Of all the Trump-era falseisms– global warming is a hoax, non-citizens vote in America, tariffs are paid by foreign countries– one of the most toxic is that Judaism equals Israel. The equation is not articulated just like that; rather, it is embedded in Trump’s definition of antisemitism. I’m sure by now you got the memo: Antisemitism consists of criticizing anything that Netanyahu’s government does or standing up for the rights of people Israel attacks.

Proposed Connecticut bill SB 365, which had a public hearing earlier this month and is undergoing review by the Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis, would require emergency departments to offer buprenorphine to patients with opioid use disorder.

After more than two decades, the Sun is starting to set on major league sports in Connecticut. On Friday, Texas-based PaperCity Magazine and ESPN both reported that Connecticut’s last major league sports team, the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun, would be sold and relocated to Houston. The deal was later confirmed by the team’s current ownership, the Mohegan Tribe on Monday, ending months of speculation over the future of the team.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stirred up widespread uncertainty surrounding U.S. vaccine policy during his time as Health and Human Services Secretary. Under Kennedy’s leadership, the federal agency has overhauled the committee that issues vaccine recommendations and amended longstanding guidance for childhood immunizations. However, a federal judge in Massachusetts issued an order in late March temporarily blocking every major vaccine policy change made in the last year. Gov.

Lori Reynolds stood behind the circle of occupied chairs at the public safety town hall meeting on Friday evening and demanded more action from Mayor Arunan Arulampalam. “You’ve been avoiding us,” Reynolds told him, speaking into a microphone. “His children should not live with regret saying ‘I should have not called 211.’” Last month, Reynolds’ best friend lost her brother, Everard Walker, after he was fatally shot by a Hartford police officer.

These news briefs are part of The Connecticut Mirror’s 2026 political coverage. For more news about the 2026 legislative session, campaigns, elections and more, sign up here for The Issue, the CT Mirror’s weekly politics newsletter. Bridgeport Mayor Joseph P. Ganim, whose two tenures in city hall were interrupted by a stay in prison on a federal corruption conviction, is kicking off his 2027 reelection campaign on April 16 with an event headlined by Gov.

Under Connecticut law, unpaid medical bills cannot be reported to credit agencies for inclusion on a credit report. In May 2024, Gov. Ned Lamont signed Public Act 24-6, “An Act Concerning the Reporting of Medical Debt,” which took effect July 1, 2024. The law prohibits health care providers, hospitals, and collection entities from reporting any portion of a person’s medical debt to a credit rating agency.