As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
Erica Moser
As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
Published March 04. 2021 5:28PM | Updated March 04. 2021 6:11PM
As we approach the one-year anniversary of Connecticut s shelter-in-place order, many of us have been working from home for an entire year.
If you ve been working from home, we d like to know what your experience has been like. Are there things you really like or dislike about working from home? Have you found any advantages to working from home? Are there more distractions at home than in your office space? Do you feel like your productivity has increased or decreased? Do you have any helpful tips for people who are still trying to perfect their work-from-home space or routine?
School board members have agreed to form an advisory council to make recommedations on how to address COVID-related issues in the schools going forward.
Citing the state’s success in containing COVID-19, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Thursday he’ll roll back capacity restrictions on restaurants and other businesses in a couple of weeks while keeping in place an 11 p.m. curfew and doubling down on such safety protocols as mask-wearing, social distancing and frequent cleaning.
“This is not Texas, this is not Mississippi,” Lamont said during a virtual news briefing. “This is Connecticut. We are maintaining the masks. . We have a much lower rate of infection than those maskless states, and we’re going to keep going with what works.”
As of March 19, restaurants will be allowed to operate at 100% capacity, though they still will have to limit seating to eight people per table and observe the curfew. Bars that only serve alcohol will be required to stay closed “a little bit longer,” the governor said.