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Official: Expect $3B+ in CT business aid under newest federal program Alexander Soule FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Gov. Ned Lamont in late November 2020 in Danbury, Conn. (Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/TNS)Brad Horrigan / TNSShow MoreShow Less 2of3 State Sen. Joan Hartley, D-Waterbury, left, and State Rep. Caroline Simmons, D-Stamford, in August 2019 in Stamford, Conn.Tyler Sizemore / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 3of3 As Connecticut restaurants and other businesses cash in checks fo...

It’s not often that an official state press conference results in a flood of tears. “Our state capital right now is totally crumbling and it’s devastated,” said Jody Morneault, owner of downtown Hartford clothing store Stackpole Moore Tryon at 242 Trumbull St.  Openly sobbing, Morneault added that she experienced many economic downturns in her 42 years in business but this was different. “It looks like a neutron bomb went off,” she said of a downtown that had been “deserted” by ...