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CT legislators and labor are asking if the administration is making progress fixing a staffing crisis and responding to health care needs.

Connecticut's truck-only vehicle miles tax, called the Highway Use Fee, just started collecting revenue, and already it's causing confusion in among truckers.

By causing the underfunding of property tax relief grants, the 2017-18 guardrails produced an imbalance in CT budget priorities.

On Jan. 10, recreational cannabis sales officially became legal in Connecticut. Already, consumers age 21 and older have shown there is demand for adult-use pot products. Through the end of February, recreational cannabis sales surpassed $12 million. As the marijuana industry gears up to meet that growing demand, the state’s Social Equity Council has helped create a new accelerator program, which is offering technical business assistance and entrepreneurial support to qualified social equity cannabis startups.

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors isn’t holding a public hearing on its proposed salary increases until Tuesday (March 21), but some county workers have already made their opposition known. A union representing over 2,000 county government employees criticized the proposal as a blow to workers, whose projected pay raises aren’t expected to be fully