Chamber On the Move: Former UConn coach Dee Rowe will be missed
Larry McHugh
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Larry McHugh is president of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce in Middletown.Contributed photo / Larry McHughShow MoreShow Less
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The Citizens Bank 5K Winter Fun Run was held virtually in December. The Hal Kaplan Middletown Mentor Program and Amazing Grace Food Pantry were recipients of the race proceeds. Shown at the Jan. 11 check presentation is Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce President Larry McHugh, Melissa Alecia, manager, Citizens Bank, South Main Street, Middletown; Jay Woron, race committee president; Maryellen Shuckerow, executive director of St. Vincent De Paul Middletown and John Bysiewicz, race director.Contributed photo / Middlesex County Chamber of CommerceShow MoreShow Less
This story was originally published on November 9, 2020.
The principle of inclusive economic growth, holistic strategies aimed at helping all income groups prosper, is appealing in concept to state Sen. Saud Anwar, a physician for the past 25 years.
But in practice in Connecticut, it sometimes amounts to offering medicine to an asthmatic child trapped in a moldy, run-down apartment and hoping for the best. Medicine generally is helpful, but if offered within an overwhelmingly negative climate one that’s unlikely to change the prospects for measurable improvement are slim.
“I can write all of the prescriptions in the world, but the solution they need is to move to a healthy environment,” he said. “We are doing symptomatic treatment and feel-good treatment without treating the disease.”
If COVID-19 makes campus life less attractive, CT universities will pay a stiff price
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Harry Zehner, senior at the University of Connecticut, works before attending an online class in his room in New Haven. Zehner decided to live off campus this fall semester to live with friends going to different universities and because of the uncertainty coming from living on campus.
Connecticut’s public colleges and universities have walked on a fiscal knife’s edge for years.
Forced to frequently raise fees and tuition to offset dwindling state aid, higher education faces a new threat from the coronavirus potentially worse than the initial surge that closed campuses last spring.
If COVID makes campus life less attractive, CT colleges could pay price
Dec. 22, 2020
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Connecticut’s public colleges and universities have walked on a fiscal knife’s edge for years.
Forced to frequently raise fees and tuition to offset dwindling state aid, higher education faces a new threat from the coronavirus potentially worse than the initial surge that closed campuses last spring.
Simply put, what happens if students decide it’s cheaper or healthier to learn remotely, even after the pandemic?
Even a small shift in attitudes that saps 10 percent or 20 percent of fee receipts could push systems already in fiscal jeopardy into grave peril.
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