OPINION: Lamont and Fazio an Unlikely Firewall greenwichsentinel.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from greenwichsentinel.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Sen. John Fonfara (left) and House Speaker Matt Ritter, two Hartford Democrats, are trying to expand state investments to ease urban poverty.
Majority House Democrats will unveil a compromise next week to enable greater investments in poor cities while avoiding the transparency issues and hefty tax hikes that have bogged down a competing Senate Democratic plan.
“I think we’re all very sympathetic” to the poverty concentrated in the state’s urban centers, said House Speaker Matt Ritter, D-Hartford, whose community faces one of the heaviest burdens in Connecticut.
The speaker and other House Democratic leaders are trying to find middle ground between Gov. Ned Lamont and other fiscally moderate-to-conservative Democrats and the more liberal wing of the party.
Letter - Hartford s Big Brother attitude is frightening
April 21, 2021
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To the editor:
George Orwell, the author of the totalitarian novel “1984” was only 37 years off, at least in Connecticut. The Big Brother attitude of Hartford is frightening.
There are a number of bills waiting for a vote in Hartford that will take away local control of zoning throughout Connecticut. Appointed judges and Hartford politicians are going to decide what is built in our backyards. Local rule and locally controlled zoning boards will have to bow to the power of Hartford. Big Brother is taking over.
The idea of Hartford controlling local zoning is outrageous. What may be good for New London may not work in Sherman. The Hartford Democrats can’t manage the state without huge tax increases now, how are they going to manage and control our local zoning laws? And why should they?
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Battle over a proposed mansion tax highlights CT s affordability issues
Alexander Soule
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Martin Looney, D-New Haven, is sworn in as Senate President Pro Tempore during the of the start the legislative session held outside at the State Capitol, in Hartford, Conn. Jan. 6, 2021.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut Media
For East Hartford resident Torrina Evans, it’s about long, stressful nights spent figuring out how to make ends meet on the low pay she draws in disabilities services.
For Woodbury’s Deborah Schultz, it comes down to how much more she’ll have to shell out in retirement, dipping into a lifetime of earnings she and her husband saved over the years.