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For the first time, aid in dying legislation clears a key legislative committee.

“When you’re dying your choices are gone,” said Shimer, who also watched his mother die of lung cancer in 2015. “I think if you have the choice to say you want it or at least feel like you have it that gives you the dignity back.” Jason Smith of Greenwich said his aunt took her own life when the pain of her illness became unbearable. Jason Smith said his Aunt Rachel may not have taken her own life by suicide if Connecticut had a more compassionate, lawful way to aid sufferers. “She suffered the most ungracious, undignified and horrible death imaginable,” said Smith who heads the...

Gov. Ned Lamont announced a significant shift in his vaccine rollout plan Monday, moving forward with vaccinations by age group rather than prioritizing people based on underlying health conditions or frontline occupations. “I’m going to focus on the old business motto, KISS: Keep it simple, stupid,” he said of the new plan, which he and his administration argued would mean a faster rate of vaccination statewide.