Police chiefs are asking for changes on the use of deadly force as the legislature seeks to improve the controversial police accountability bill. Chiefs are concerned that the law now says police must have “exhausted’' all other options before using deadly force, but officers say that’s all being done in split-seconds and needs to be clarified.
From left, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities Executive Director Joe DeLong, Council of Small Towns Executive Director Betsy Gara, and former Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. (CTMirror.org)
For some municipal leaders, the state legislature’s 2015 promise to send hundreds of millions of dollars in sales tax revenue to cities and towns is one of the worst examples of fiscal bait-and-switch in Connecticut politics.
And for the Democratic state legislators who won re-election after making that pledge the promise is something they’d like to forget.
That’s because the Municipal Revenue Sharing Account, the mechanism through which municipalities would receive a portion of the state sales tax, also has become a recurring pain in the legislature’s side.
For 40 years, Connecticut residents have been returning their soda and beer bottles and getting the same amount back : five cents. As many bottles have ended up in the trash, Gov. Ned Lamont and House Speaker Matt Ritter are now supporting the idea of doubling the redemption to 10 cents in an attempt to increase recycling.
As more bottles have ended up in the trash, Gov. Ned Lamont and House Speaker Matt Ritter of Hartford are now supporting doubling the redemption to 10 cents.
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