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As many small businesses are still struggling from the pandemic, top Connecticut officials Tuesday urged shoppers to patronize their local small businesses.

And Colin Powell dies at 84.

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As part of its annual competition, the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists awarded the Courant the Stephen A. Collins Public Service Award for a collection of the newspaper’s coronavirus coverage titled “From deaths to lost jobs to health care, the coronavirus has changed our way of life in Connecticut.”

HARTFORD, Conn. — Community members and journalists, along with Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Mayor Luke Bronin, gathered Saturday afternoon in Hartford for a rally opposing the sale of the Courant and Tribune Publishing to Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund with a reputation for cutting costs. The “Save Local News” rally came less than a week before shareholders vote on May 21 on a deal to sell Tribune Publishing to Alden for $633 million. A rival group, led by Maryland hotel magn...

A coalition of groups called Tuesday for allowing all Connecticut adults to grow their own marijuana and helping those who have been arrested on marijuana charges in the past as part of the effort to legalize recreational marijuana. About 100 people gathered for a rally outside the Legislative Office Building in Hartford to push for the controversial bill that top legislators say has about a ...

Connecticut Gov. Lamont lobbies for regional effort to fight climate change; electric school buses could be funded under initiative Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant © Christopher Keating/Hartford Courant/TNS Gov. Ned Lamont and state environmental commissioner Katie Dykes unveiled Connecticuts first electric school bus in Middletown as they touted a controversial bill calling for battling air pollution and climate change. Opponents say the bill will sharply increase gaso...

With $2.7 billion in federal funding expected to come to Connecticut over the next three years, the state House of Representatives voted unanimously Tuesday to ensure that the legislature plays a key role in deciding how the dollars will be spent. Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration initially balked at the idea last week in an earlier version of the bill, but the two sides reached a compromise, ...

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont’s poll ratings doubled in COVID year, but extraordinary powers and federal money will eventually run out Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant © Brad Horrigan/The Hartford Courant/Hartford Courant/TNS Gov. Ned Lamonts poll ratings have doubled in the past year as he has ruled Connecticut with extraordinary powers as the legislature has been unable to block his moves like they did on electronic highway tolls. Here, Lamont receives his first dose o...

Connecticut bill to ban foam takeout containers in 2023 advances Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant As many restaurants are still struggling and increasingly relying on foam containers to carry takeout food, a key legislative committee voted Friday to ban the containers starting in July 2023. Democrats on the environment committee say the single-use containers are major polluters that should be banned because the products do not break down naturally, pollute the oceans and ta...