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Hayes said she wouldn't take corporate PAC dollars. Then she accepted over $100,000 FacebookTwitterEmail U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes speaks at a news conference at Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo, in Bridgeport, Conn. March 29, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media WASHINGTON — In 2018 during her first run for Congress, then-candidate Jahana Hayes said she wouldn’t take campaign contributions from corporate political action committees as part of her commitment to clean up the influence of money in politics. But now as a two-term congresswoman, Hayes, D-5, has accepted $102,000 for her campa...

Connecticut representatives submitted lengthy wish-lists this week to congressional...

'It must be a movement for change': CT leaders react to Derek Chauvin guilty verdict FacebookTwitterEmail 1of9 In this image from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, center, stands after the verdict is read in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd, Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minn. Standing next to him are attorneys Eric Nelson, left and Amy Voss. (Court TV via AP, Pool)Associated PressShow MoreShow Less 2of9 In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, and defendant, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek C...

Stratford has until Friday to figure out how to allocate COVID-19 stimulus bonanza FacebookTwitterEmail Stratford Mayor Laura Hoydick leads a remembrance vigil for COVID-19 victims and survivors on the one-year anniversary of the first U.S. death from the virus outside City Hall in Stratford, Conn. on Monday, March 1, 2021.Brian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut Media STRATFORD — A federal windfall of tens of millions of dollars is headed to town, but how taxpayers will benefit remains up in the air. Mayor Laura Hoydick, who has until Friday to present her budget proposal, said Tuesday she’s...

Skip to main content Currently Reading CT is represented by only a handful of Black women. 'There's more work to do,' they say. FacebookTwitterEmail 2of9 3of9 5of9 Toni N. Harp, former longtime state senator and New Haven mayorBrian A. Pounds / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less 6of9 7of9 Melissa McCaw, secretary of the state Office of Policy and Management.Courtesy of Melissa McCaw /Show MoreShow Less 8of9 9of9 Pioneering Black women in Connecticut politics got together — apart — for a rare event Friday to talk about their paths to elective office, the trials along the way and th...