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MARK PAZNIOKAS :: CTMIRROR.ORG Mark Walsh of West Hartford, a retired Hartford firefighter who is a frequent critic of Gov. Ned Lamont on talk radio, holds a sign mocking the governor’s offered $1,000 inducement for job seekers. Capitol police estimated the crowd at 250. Aided by talk radio hosts, Republicans tried Monday to gauge the political value of residual resentment towards Gov. Ned Lamont over COVID-19 restrictions that largely disappeared in May as infections plummeted. A midday rall...

GOP state senator: Democrats want everyone to be driving electric vehicles FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Patrick Sasser, of Stamford, founder of No Tolls CT, protests new gas and food taxes at a Stop the Gas Tax/Food Tax rally in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday, April 29, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 2of5 State Senate Republican Leader Kevin Kelly speaks at a Stop the Gas Tax/Food Tax rally in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday, April 29, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Co...

UpdatedSun, Apr 11, 2021 at 1:26 pm ET Replies(10) A demonstrator holds a sign at a rally Saturday in Fairfield. (Anna Bybee-Schier/Patch) West Haven Planning and Zoning Commission member Steven Mullins speaks Saturday in Fairfield. (Anna Bybee-Schier/Patch) Demonstrators hold signs at a rally Saturday in Fairfield. (Anna Bybee-Schier/Patch) A demonstrator is seen at a rally Saturday in Fairfield. (Anna Bybee-Schier/Patch) FAIRFIELD, CT — A crowd of over 50 people gathered Saturday on Town Ha...

Published March 16. 2021 5:31PM | Updated March 16. 2021 5:36PM As the long session in the state legislature continues on, another extreme bill advances under the radar. Senator Winfield of New Haven deserves credit for the directness of his bill, SB447, titled “An act concerning the phase-out of the use of school resource officers.” That is where the credit should end. In a time of rising violence, this bill would make our school children less safe. I remember a time not so long ago when ...

One of a kind: Friends remember Stamford man killed in snowmobile crash in Maine Tara O’Neill FacebookTwitterEmail A file photo of a candlelight vigil in Connecticut.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media STAMFORD — Friends of a city resident killed in a snowmobiling accident in Maine earlier this week have taken to social media to remember the man as outgoing and one of a kind. Police in Maine said Wednesday that 33-year-old William Arnow, of Stamford, died after a snowmobile crash o...

With barely one month complete in year 2021, several senators have proposed bills that should leave Connecticut taxpayers wondering if they have lost

While the coronavirus dominated summer headlines, Connecticut’s five-year effort to accelerate the transportation rebuilding program slowed to a stroll on July 1. A risky initiative to force tolls — by borrowing and spending billions of extra dollars on new projects between 2016 and 2020 — concluded July 1, without those controversial fees or any other plan to pay for all of it.

Two years ago Connecticut lawmakers were unable to find the votes for Gov. Ned Lamont’s electronic toll proposal, now the special transportation fund is going...

Bob and Amy Stefanowski receive NAACP award for mask effort FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Amy and Bob Stefanowski, at center, received an award from the Waterbury NAACP Youth Corps on Sept. 9, 2021, for their volunteer work buying and distributing masks in the spring of 2020.contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 2of3 The first deliveries of masks for Masks for Heroes was made possible by (l-r) Stamford Firefighter Patrick Sasser and Masks for Heroes Founder Bob Stefanowski.ContributedShow MoreShow Le...

Two Democratic state senators introduced a bill this week that would install electronic highway tolling systems on I-84, I-91, I-95 and portions of Route 15, even as Gov. Ned Lamont has said he would seek other options to Connecticut’s transportation funding problems.