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Due to federal restrictions, time is now running out on Connecticut's pause on bus fares, leaving lawmakers and transportation advocates scrambling to find a long-term solution.

Growers should not be able to just use up our lives, wrote one farmworker. We are not tools or cattle, we are human beings.

Washington state lawmakers heard public testimony Thursday on a bill allowing employers to choose certain weeks when farmworkers could be exempt from overtime pay.

Redesign of Hartford's Asylum Avenue sparks controversy amid national debate on roadway safety.

The Hispanic Federation and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving are joining forces to invest more than half a million dollars in local Latino, Black, Indigenous and Asian-led community-based organizations in 29 cities and towns in the Greater Hartford area.

BiCi Co. is the only bike shop in the city of Hartford and is designed to help the Hispanic community.

WSHU’s Ebong Udoma spoke with CT Mirror’s Tom Condon to discuss his article, “CT Transit bus ridership is recovering, in part because of free fares,” as part of the collaborative podcast Long Story Short.

The city has added a bike lane to Wethersfield Avenue near the 200 block where a cyclist was fatally hit from behind in 2020 by someone driving as much as 90 mph, according to Michael Looney, director of public works.

Daisy Rodriguez of Hartford takes the bus across town for her jobs — full-time on weekdays, part-time on weekends — as a patient care assistant. She was paying $63 for a 31-day bus pass. But the state’s fare-free bus program, which began on April 1, has been a godsend. She said the money she saves can go towards the higher costs of groceries and other necessities. She noted that before the program began, “Sometimes you don’t have the money for the bus fare, and you have to walk.” It�...

“There’s no question customers are really enjoying it, and benefitting from it,” said Doug Holcomb, general manager of the Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority.