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Municipal leaders urge Gov. Lamont to include PILOT in next biennial budget Hartford's PILOT shortfall is indicative of the state's level of funding of the program. On Friday, January 15,  New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker and 27 of his counterparts, executive officeholders from across Connecticut, sent a letter advocating that Gov. Ned Lamont includes in his budget the necessary funding to implement a tiered Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) program. Here is the complete text: Dear Governor Lamont, As you continue to guide our state through the COVID-19 pandemic your budget proposal for the nex...

A rendering of the proposed Killingly Energy Center generation facility. The 30,000 men and women of the Connecticut State Building Trades unions, were shocked and gravely disappointed by the Gov. Ned Lamont’s quotes, “I don’t want to build Killingly” and that the administration could “play some games there,” referring to slowing the permitting process at DEEP. These quotes are deeply hurtful to the hardworking members of the Building Trades unions who have been especially hard hit during the pandemic. To have 600 unionized construction jobs and over 1 million work hours of union ...

Multilingual, multicultural education is a foundational imperative As the calendar has turned to 2021, we cannot help but be reminded of how incredibly intertwined and interdependent we are all across the globe. What is said or done in one geographic location has ramifications far and wide, which underscores the importance of understanding each other and our actions, not only for the harm that can be inflicted inadvertently, but for the good that can be accomplished intentionally. At Mercy High School in Middletown, where students from more than 50 Connecticut towns and cities pursue their ed...

Cloe Poisson :: CTMirror.org Alan Miller, 78, of Marlborough, receives the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine from Valerie Faiella, RN, at Connecticut’s largest drive-through vaccination clinic administered by Community Health Center, Inc. The 10-lane clinic, which opened January 18 at Pratt & Whitney Runway in East Hartford vaccinates eligible individuals in Phase 1a and 1b by appointment only. The aforementioned article, written by Genevieve Diamant, stands to do potentially significant damage to the efforts by the citizens and government of the State of Connecticut to bring under control t...

On January 6 the world watched as domestic terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, DC.  The pictures seared into our memories of this day are replete with symbols of hatred, racism, and extremism: The Confederate battle flag, the white power hand gesture, and the gallows erected near the Capitol reflecting pool. What many may not have noticed within this sea of white supremacy was the prominence of anti-Semitic images: the black sweatshirt reading “Camp Auschwitz, Work Brings Freedom,” and T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan: 6MWE = “6 million wasn’t enough” abo...