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CTNewsJu**ie was launched in 2005 with a goal of filling the coverage void at the State Capitol in Connecticut, where traditional news organizations have largely vacated their desks in the newsroom because of declining revenue and marketshare. Our goal was not to be an opinion-based blog - not that there is anything wrong with blogs. Rather, we set out to produce professionally gathered and resear

ched news that you can’t find anywhere else, with an eye toward accuracy, objectivity, and fairness. We are a small organization with just a few reporters. We also offer an op-ed section with columnists covering as much of the political spectrum as possible, and we occasionally accept op-ed submissions if they are cogent, well written, and well researched. Feel free to share this page with your Connecticut-resident friends. It's not a place where we want people to engage in hate speech or enraged rants. This will be a respectful community. We don't tolerate name calling at all, regardless of your political leanings. Be civil or be gone. OUR COMMENTING POLICY:

As of Jan. 15, 2016, we started using Facebook for reader commenting. We will continue to monitor comments as they are posted on our site and keep an eye out for problematic comments that violate our policy outlined here. Commenters must follow Facebook Terms of Service and use their real names. Comments from fake accounts or accounts using pseudonyms will be deleted when we see them.

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-Keep it clean. Avoid profane, obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist, or sexually-oriented language or your comments will be deleted (or they simply will not post based on pre-determined filters). Discriminatory comments of any kind, or comments that hint in such a direction, will be deleted.

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-Do not attempt to hijack a comment thread to link with ads for your personal business, invective aimed at a person or a group against whom you have a personal vendetta, or long rants about unrelated issues or crusade. We will delete them.

-Do not copy the contents of someone else's work and attempt to publish it here - that is plagiarism. Write your own sentence summing up the other author's point and link back to their original work.

-Be proactive. If you see a comment that is offensive, let us know and include a link to the comment in question.

-At the end of the day, we hope to promote a lively, productive community of reader commenters. Constructive criticism is welcome. But we also are not here to be your punching bag and we are not required in any way to publish your comment(s) on our website or to allow them here on our page or within our Facebook group. We are not required in any way to publish your comment(s) on our website or anywhere on our social media platforms. It takes considerable time to read and approve your comments, and that takes us away from the job of covering the news. If you are spending a lot of time commenting here or simply reading the site on a regular basis, consider supporting our work. And good grammar, punctuation, and a *sense of humor* go a long way toward proving your point or at least making a convincing argument:

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With the clock ticking down on the legislative session, House leadership gathered at the Capitol Tuesday morning and cov...
06/05/2025

With the clock ticking down on the legislative session, House leadership gathered at the Capitol Tuesday morning and covered a wide variety of topics, from tense budget reflections to a forceful rebuke of cultural distractions. In the wide-ranging discussion, House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, and House Majority Leader Jason Rojas, D-East Hartford, addressed everything from […]

HARTFORD, CT — With the clock ticking down on the legislative session, House leadership gathered at the Capitol Tuesday morning and covered a wide variety of topics, from tense budget reflections to a forceful rebuke of culture war distractions.

STAMFORD, CT — The Connecticut General Assembly could take up what one library expert calls a “common sense” bill provid...
06/05/2025

STAMFORD, CT — The Connecticut General Assembly could take up what one library expert calls a “common sense” bill providing libraries, librarians and books themselves protections in Connecticut. If passed, Senate Bill 1271, An Act Concerning School and Public Libraries, would serve as a bulwark against book bans and promote access to knowledge, according to […]

STAMFORD, CT — One of the issues tucked into the budget bill that passed Tuesday night was what one library expert calls a “common sense” bill providing libraries, librarians, and books themselves new protections in Connecticut.

For the first time in state history, Connecticut’s hunters could be legally allowed to engage in the activity on Sundays...
06/05/2025

For the first time in state history, Connecticut’s hunters could be legally allowed to engage in the activity on Sundays after the state Senate passed legislation passed House Bill 7231. The 32-4 vote removed what lawmakers described as one of the last remaining "blue laws" on the books.

HARTFORD, CT — For the first time in state history, Connecticut’s hunters could be legally allowed to engage in the activity on Sundays after the state Senate passed legislation passed House Bill 7231. The 32-4 vote removed what lawmakers described as one of the last remaining "blue laws" on the...

HARTFORD, CT — A bill limiting the cost of taking out a small, short-term loan is on its way to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk a...
06/04/2025

HARTFORD, CT — A bill limiting the cost of taking out a small, short-term loan is on its way to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk after receiving bipartisan support in the state House of Representatives on Wednesday.

HARTFORD, CT — A bill limiting the cost of taking out a small, short-term loan is on its way to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk after receiving bipartisan support in the state House of Representatives on Wednesday.

In one of the most widely anticipated legislative actions this session, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed ...
06/04/2025

In one of the most widely anticipated legislative actions this session, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 4 on Tuesday night with a bipartisan 144-3 vote. The wide-ranging legislation seeks to lower electricity rates, modernize the electric grid, expand oversight of utility companies and prepare for a decarbonized energy future.

In one of the most widely anticipated legislative actions this session, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 4 on Tuesday night with a bipartisan 144-3 vote. The wide-ranging legislation seeks to lower electricity rates, modernize the electric grid, expand oversight of utility...

HARTFORD, CT – In raw and sometimes emotional personal testimony at the state Capitol, prison reform advocates called ou...
06/04/2025

HARTFORD, CT – In raw and sometimes emotional personal testimony at the state Capitol, prison reform advocates called out the General Assembly and the state’s Democratic majority specifically for their failure to pass a host of legislation aimed at correcting deficiencies in the treatment of incarcerated people.

HARTFORD, CT – In raw and sometimes emotional personal testimony at the state Capitol, prison reform advocates called out the General Assembly and the state’s Democratic majority specifically for their failure to pass a host of legislation aimed at correcting deficiencies in the treatment of inc...

Editorial cartoon by Pat Bagley.
06/04/2025

Editorial cartoon by Pat Bagley.

Editorial cartoon by Pat Bagley.

HARTFORD, CT — After 12 hours of debate and a series of failed Republican amendments, the state Senate approved a new, t...
06/04/2025

HARTFORD, CT — After 12 hours of debate and a series of failed Republican amendments, the state Senate approved a new, two-year state budget for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, unchanged from the one it received Monday night from the House. The budget is the result of a deal negotiated by legislative leaders and Gov. Ned Lamont.

HARTFORD, CT — After 12 hours of debate and a series of failed Republican amendments, the Connecticut Senate approved a new, two-year state budget for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, unchanged from the one it received Monday night from the House. The budget is the result of a deal negotiated by legisl...

HARTFORD, CT — The Connecticut Senate on Monday overwhelmingly approved a comprehensive energy affordability bill design...
06/03/2025

HARTFORD, CT — The Connecticut Senate on Monday overwhelmingly approved a comprehensive energy affordability bill designed to cut utility costs, protect ratepayers, and modernize the state’s electric grid. The final vote was 34-1 withSen. John Fonfara, D-Hartford voting against it Sen. John Kissel, R-Enfield, listed as absent or not votin. The legislation now heads to […]

The Senate Chamber on the third floor of the Capitol HARTFORD, CT — The Connecticut Senate on Monday overwhelmingly approved a comprehensive energy

HARTFORD, CT — With peace in Ukraine, “nowhere in sight,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal promoted new legislation aiding U...
06/03/2025

HARTFORD, CT — With peace in Ukraine, “nowhere in sight,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal promoted new legislation aiding Ukraine at a news conference outside the state Capitol on Monday.

HARTFORD, CT — With peace in Ukraine, “nowhere in sight,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal promoted new legislation aiding Ukraine at a news conference outside the state Capitol on Monday.

06/03/2025

HARTFORD, CT — Connecticut hospitals and community health centers are warning that the state’s new biennial budget — stacked with a $375 million tax increase on hospitals, cuts to provider payments, and no Medicaid reimbursement rate increases — will leave Connecticut's healthcare system dangerously exposed as cuts to federal Medicaid funding loom.

HARTFORD, CT — The two-year, $55.8 million budget that passed out of the Connecticut House of Representatives on a mostl...
06/03/2025

HARTFORD, CT — The two-year, $55.8 million budget that passed out of the Connecticut House of Representatives on a mostly party-line vote late Monday night remains within the state budget cap despite increasing spending by $2.63 billion over the next two fiscal years.

HARTFORD, CT — The two-year, $55.8 billion budget that passed out of the Connecticut House of Representatives on a mostly party-line vote late Monday night remains within the state budget cap despite increasing spending by $2.63 billion over the next two fiscal years.

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We launched in 2005 to fill the void of politics and public policy news coverage at Connecticut’s Capitol, where traditional news organizations had largely vacated their desks because of declining revenue and marketshare. Our goal was not to be an opinion-based blog - not that there is anything wrong with blogs. Rather, we set out to produce professionally gathered and researched news that you can’t find anywhere else, with an eye toward accuracy, objectivity, and fairness. We are a small organization with just a few reporters. We also offer an op-ed section with columnists covering as much of the political spectrum as possible, and we occasionally accept op-ed submissions if they are cogent, well written, and well researched. Feel free to share this page with your Connecticut-resident friends. It's not a place where we want people to engage in hate speech or enraged rants. This will be a respectful community. We don't tolerate name calling at all, regardless of your political leanings. Be civil or be gone. OUR COMMENTING POLICY: As of Jan. 15, 2016, we started using Facebook for reader commenting. We will continue to monitor comments as they are posted on our site and keep an eye out for problematic comments that violate our policy outlined here. Commenters must follow Facebook Terms of Service and use their real names. Comments from fake accounts or accounts using pseudonyms will be deleted when we see them. • Commenters are welcome to express opinions in a civil manner. Don't type your comments in ALL CAPS. • Be nice. Avoid personal attacks or name calling of any kind. • Comments that include threats of violence against anyone, or inciting violence in any form, will be removed and forwarded to law enforcement. • Comments should be directly related to the topic of the story. If you must criticize, your comments should be cogent to the topic of the story and should add something new to the discussion. If it's obvious that you're simply engaging in a pattern of mean-spirited, partisan attacks from one story to the next, we will stop approving your comments and ban you from the site. If we suspect that you are a paid commenter attempting to further a political agenda, your comments will be deleted and you will be banned. • We will not publish allegations of criminal, unethical, or other extreme personal wrongdoing based on facts that haven’t been published in articles. • Keep it clean. Avoid profane, obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist, or sexually-oriented language or your comments will be deleted (or they simply will not post based on pre-determined filters). Discriminatory comments of any kind, or comments that hint in such a direction, will be deleted. • Be truthful. Don't knowingly lie about anyone or anything. • Do not attempt to hijack a comment thread to link with ads for your personal business, invective aimed at a person or a group against whom you have a personal vendetta, or long rants about unrelated issues or crusade. We will delete them. • Do not copy the contents of someone else's work and attempt to publish it here - that is plagiarism. Write your own sentence summing up the other author's point and link back to their original work. • Be proactive. If you see a comment that is offensive, let us know and include a link to the comment in question. • At the end of the day, we hope to promote a lively, productive community of reader commenters. Constructive criticism is welcome. But we also are not here to be your punching bag and we are not required in any way to publish your comment(s) on our website or to allow them here on our page or within our Facebook group. We are not required in any way to publish your comment(s) on our website or anywhere on our social media platforms. It takes considerable time to read and approve your comments, and that takes us away from the job of covering the news. If you are spending a lot of time commenting here or simply reading the site on a regular basis, consider supporting our work. And good grammar, punctuation, and a *sense of humor* go a long way toward proving your point or at least making a convincing argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc&feature=youtu.be