That is Connecticut's tax program to combat the litter caused by people throwing out their empty little liquor bottles. The idea is the state charges an additional nickel for each nip sold and that money goes back to the municipalities to clean the liquor bottles up. The problem is, some lawmakers don't think it is working.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. Incumbent Dutchess County Legislator Kristofer Munn is running for election to a fourth two-year term to the Legislature’s District 20 seat. A Democrat, Munn criticized Republicans who control both the Legislature and the County Executive’s Office for what he said is putting the needs of special interests over county residents and said […]
April 29, 2021 2:00 PM, EDT
Connecticut Republicans Attack Governor’s Truck-Tax Plan
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont by Brad Horrigan/courant.com via Tribune Content Agency
HARTFORD, Conn. Republican state lawmakers, along with trucking and food-distribution executives, on April 28 declared war on Gov. Ned Lamont’s proposed regional climate initiative and user tax for heavy trucks on state highways.
They called for the state to invest instead in greenways and open space, and again called for Connecticut’s delegation in Congress to push for air pollution reductions in midwestern states whose emissions drastically affect air quality through prevailing winds.
On a downtown street corner a block from the State Capitol complex, House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora and Senate Minority Leader Kevin Kelly charged that Lamont’s participation in the regional Transportation and Climate Initiative would steadily raise gasoline taxes on working families while providing subsidies fo
CANTERBURY Lynne Denning doesn’t want your pity.
The 62-year-old Canterbury resident who barely survived a vicious 2014 dog attack in Plainfield is still petitioning for changes in animal owner laws, though she admits she’s getting tired.
“I look at myself and I don’t see the damage, just the age,” she said. “But I haven’t given up.”
On Dec. 3, 2014, Denning, then a home health aide working in a Plainfield home on Putnam Road, was mauled by dogs belonging to resident Jenna Allen. During a four-day bench trial of Allen she was later found guilty of first- and second-degree reckless endangerment and served 60 days in jail in Danielson Superior Court in May 2017, Denning testified that Allen’s dogs without warning lunged at her face before tearing at her torso and extremities.