Lamont s emergency powers extended through September ctmirror.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ctmirror.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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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 rally outside the state Capitol to protest a proposed two-month extension of emergency powers drew an estimated crowd of 250 and an appearance by Bob Stefanowski, the Republican who lost to Lamont in 2018 and is weighing seeking a rematch in 2022.
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The coronavirus left unprecedented damage in its wake. Massive unemployment, education interrupted for hundreds of thousands of students, and a safety net pushed beyond its limit not to mention more than 8,000 lives lost sparked countless appeals for government assistance to rebuild a struggling state.
Yet an analysis by the CT Mirror shows that more than six out of every 10 federal relief dollars built into the new state budget that began July 1 effectively will wind up in public-sector pension accounts.
And while Gov. Ned Lamont and others insist the new state budget and the billions Congress sent to Connecticut via the American Rescue Plan Act will be used to heal the state’s wounds, others question whether the administration’s priorities are askew. Pension debt deserves to be addressed after being ignored for decades, they say, but that shouldn’t come at the expense of the state’s response to a once-in-a-century health and econo
Published July 08. 2021 12:03AM
KEITH M. PHANEUF, The Connecticut Mirror
The coronavirus left unprecedented damage in its wake. Massive unemployment, education interrupted for hundreds of thousands of students, and a safety net pushed beyond its limit not to mention more than 8,000 lives lost sparked countless appeals for government assistance to rebuild a struggling state.
Yet an analysis by the CT Mirror shows that more than six out of every 10 federal relief dollars built into the new state budget that began July 1 effectively will wind up in public-sector pension accounts.
And while Gov. Ned Lamont and others insist the new state budget and the billions Congress sent to Connecticut via the American Rescue Plan Act will be used to heal the state’s wounds, others question whether the administration’s priorities are askew. Pension debt deserves to be addressed after being ignored for decades, they say, but that shouldn’t come at the expense of the state’s respo
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