Interview edited by Ben Mattison May 20, 2021
In 2011, Roderick Bremby was named commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Social Services, with responsibility for the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and more than 60 additional programs, including Medicaid. CT SNAP was then ranked among the country’s worst food stamp programs, with overwhelmed staff and delayed and inaccurate benefits. Over the next several years, Bremby transformed the program, reengineering business processes and digitizing, and streamlining the application process. By 2018, the federal government recognized the program as one of the best in the country.
Before coming to Connecticut, Bremby served as secretary of health and environment in state government in Kansas, where he made headlines when he cited greenhouse gas emissions in denying a permit for a proposed coal-burning power plant. He is now an executive in the global public health business unit at Salesforce, which has pro
May 20, 2021
Professor Teresa Chahine talks with Roderick Bremby, who led a dramatic turnaround of Connecticut s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Today, he is an executive at Salesforce, which has provided contact tracing and vaccine management during the COVID-19 pandemic.
04/27/2021
FLORENCE, Mass. Joe Manning of Florence, Massachusetts, an author, historian, photographer, poet, and songwriter, died on April 27, 2021, after a short illness. He was 79 years old.
Nationally known for the Lewis Hine Project, he used his curiosity and belief in the inherent dignity of people to uncover the stories of hundreds of the child laborers Hine photographed from 1908 to 1924 for the National Child Labor Committee.
Manning was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. He served four years in the United States Air Force. In 1970, he received a BA in sociology from SUNY Cortland and became a caseworker for the Connecticut Department of Social Services, where he worked until his retirement in 1999.
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Connecticut has recently notified pharmacies and prescribing providers that various quantity limits and refill criteria will revert back to pre-COVID 19 requirements come May 21, 2021. The reinstatement of pre-COVID 19 requirements anticipates the scheduled May 20 expiration of Connecticut’s public health emergency. The changes appear in Connecticut Medical Assistance Program Provider Bulletin 2021-24 issued earlier this month by the Connecticut Department of Social Services (DSS).
When the changes take effect, the maximum allowable units and days’ supply for prescriptions that are non-maintenance drugs and not controlled substances will drop from ninety (90) to thirty (30). Prescriptions authorized under Connecticut General Statues section 20-616, that is prescriptions refilled without an order based upon a pharmacist’s exercise of their professional judgment to avoid an interruption in a therapeutic regime or pati
Joe Manning turned his efforts to genealogy, identifying hundreds of mill children photographed a century ago by Lewis Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Joe Manning, chronicler of the heart and soul of the city of North Adams, died Tuesday, April 27, at the age of 79 after a short illness. Manning first discovered the Steeple City 25 years ago and became a frequent and beloved visitor. The author, historian, genealogist, freelance journalist, poet, photographer, and songwriter made the city his spiritual home even though he never lived here. His writings included Steeples: Sketches of North Adams, published in 1997 and featuring a collection of oral histories, photographs, essays, and poetry inspired by interviews and conversations with local people, Disappearing into North Adams, a personalized retrospective of changes to the former mill town, and a book of similarly informed poetry Gig At The Amtrak.