by Katherine Concepcion | Apr 2, 2013 | Education, Features, General, Health Care, Municipal, Politics
Advocacy organizations and many Connecticut residents are united in opposing a bill mandating the psychiatric screening of children and teenagers in Connecticut. S.B. 374, An Act Requiring Behavioral Health Assessments for Children, would require schools to administer...
by Katherine Concepcion | Apr 1, 2013 | Features, General, Politics
Connecticut’s early release program is hotly debated by critics questioning the plan’s impact on public safety. For most, prison is the default solution to crime, but some experts question this approach. Imprisonment does not have to be the only answer. Learning about...
by Katherine Concepcion | Mar 26, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care
The Department of Public Health’s vaccine inventory is “grossly inaccurate,” according to a recent audit. DPH did not record vaccine supplies, prompting the Auditors of Public Accounts to request a report. Subsequent review of the DPH submission found failure to...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 25, 2013 | Features, General, Municipal, Politics
State contractors and the people who work for them can make donations to Connecticut’s government and quasi-public agencies, but they can’t talk about them. In 2006, the Citizen’s Ethics Advisory Board held that lobbyists, state contractors and businesses regulated by...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 23, 2013 | Features, General
If financial success can predict the outcome of college basketball games, the University of Michigan will win both NCAA basketball tournaments, despite getting seeded fourth (men) and eighth (women). I completed a NCAA tournament bracket – provided by ESPN – based on...
by Suzanne Bates | Mar 22, 2013 | Economy, Features, General, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Residents gathered at the statehouse on Friday to ask lawmakers to stop thinking about them as revenue sources and to instead think about how the state’s laws are affecting their daily lives. Connecticut College student Michael Coscarelli said he was at the Capitol on...
