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During his recovery from COVID, he said, he realized that regardless of wealth, education or status, everyone has the same allotted 24 hours to live each day.

The state is financing almost all of the cost of multiple school projects in Hartford, but investigators have zeroed in on the $150 million overhaul of Bulkeley High School on the city’s southside, according to public records and interviews with more than a half dozen people familiar with the project.In particular, the investigators appear interested in how Konstantinos Diamantis, the politically-influential former director of the state school financing program, persuaded Hartford to hire a se...

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“One state agency that serves vulnerable people said ‘We aren’t going to place any more people here,’” said Sarah Eagan, the state child advocate. “

It began with a column in the Courant revealing a patronage appointment for the daughter of influential state budget officer Konstantinos Diamantis. Then, last month news broke that a federal grand jury is investigating three costly state spending programs. Now, the emerging scandal threatens to become political ammunition as Gov. Ned Lamont heads into a re-election campaign.

Superintendent of Schools Walter Willet said that Diamantis “routinely emphasized there would be detrimental effects to the project if Tolland chose contractors or consultants other than” those he chose.

Levy is running as a conservative on social and foreign-policy issues.

Each time I return to Brainard Airport, I’m reminded of the people creating 50,000 yearly operations.

Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher took the unusual step of disbarring a divorce lawyer Nickola Cunha for making “empty and malicious” claims of abuse and antisemitic declarations to win an advantage for her client by “snarling the case into an un-triable mess.”

How are Connecticut restaurants being affected by the omicron variant, in regards to consumer confidence and staffing?