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CT to remove most COVID capacity limits starting March 19 FacebookTwitterEmail Gov. Ned LamontJohn Minchillo / Associated Press On a day when Connecticut’s COVID positivity rate was the lowest it’s been in weeks, Gov. Ned Lamont announced a reopening plan Thursday that will allow restaurants and most businesses to return to full capacity this month. But masks and social distancing will still be required. Starting March 19, capacity limits will be lifted at all restaurants, retail stores, personal services facilities, houses of worship, museums, aquariums, zoos, office buildings and other ...

Dan Haar: The inside story behind Lamont's vaccination order reversal FacebookTwitterEmail Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont receives his first dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine at The First Cathedral church Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, in Bloomfield.File photo The first hint for Gov. Ned Lamont and his top aides that Connecticut might be better off sticking with age groups as the vaccination order, not front-line workers or people with medical conditions, came in a mid-afternoon meeting on a very hectic day at the state Capitol in early January. It was the Core Four: Lamont sat behind his desk on the s...

Dan Haar: Break all vaccine rules to end the racial gap we can't measure FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Adam Rinko, right, emergency management director for the city of Waterbury, shows the vaccine storage room to Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz and Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Feb. 19, 2021, at a vaccination clinic at a magnet school run by the city and St. Mary's Hospital.Dan Haar/Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Amos Smith, CEO of the Community Action Agency of New Haven, at an online forum on COVID-19 vaccine access, with a tropical vacation backdrop.Screen ShotShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Am...

Image Mike DeLuca That’s certainly been the case for most Connecticut news outlets, but over the past dozen years, national media giant Hearst Communications has stood out in an otherwise shrinking sector here. Hearst Connecticut Media, led since 2019 by Group Publisher/President Mike DeLuca and Editor-in-Chief Wendy Metcalfe, has grown into the largest news organization in the state since 2008, employing some 200 journalists across eight Fairfield County-centric daily papers, including the Connecticut Post and New Haven Register, as well as a dozen weeklies and various websites. Hearst has...

Lamont will propose to use federal funds not yet approved, and will rely on a rising...