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For Nancy Miclette, the co-chair for the Relay for Life of Southeastern Connecticut, the pandemic has affected donations to the organization. In 2020, the nonprofit raised $50,000 compared to $100,000 in 2019. But the outlook is promising for 2021, with changes allowing big events like Relay for Life to resume again. “We’re trying to get back on track,” Miclette said. As COVID-19 vaccinations become more available, nonprofits that had to put fundraising projects on hold last year, or change formats from in-person to remote, are trying to bring events similar to what they did in the ...

Lessons learned: Education is not enough to combat anti-vaccine propaganda Anti-vax protestors outside the State Capitol. The Connecticut House of Representatives just passed legislation to end the religious exemption for the school vaccination requirement ( HB6423).  The Connecticut state Senate must act quickly to do the same.  If passed, Connecticut would require medically able school children to receive vaccines as recommended by the CDC. Opponents argue Connecticut should pursue education to voluntarily increase vaccination rates.  We support education, but not as a substitution for s...

Lumber Dealers Association of Connecticut Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce Connecticut Bus Association, Inc. " Now is the worst possible time to increase costs on hard-working residents who cannot afford to have their health coverage jeopardized as we work to recover from this pandemic," the coalition stressed. " Thousands of local businesses in Connecticut are proud to provide health care for their employees. Yet, this proposed tax has the potential to force local business owners into unwanted and difficult decisions that will impact their ability to fully recover and re-open." Earlier...

The bill is thanks to one organization: Desegregate CT, a coalition of nonprofits and community members that formed in the wake of this summer’s protest movement to desegregate the state. The founder is Sara Bronin, a Hartford-based architect, attorney, professor and policymaker who saw, throughout her work, how zoning upheld segregated land use, with one-family lots making up wealthy, white neighborhoods and denser housing concentrated in lower-income urban areas. “We started public conversations about what zoning could do for our state,” she notes. “One of the questions we constantl...

A proposed package of reforms working through the Connecticut Legislature would loosen zoning codes in a state traditionally committed to single-family zoning.