May 12, 2021
Democrats in the General Assembly are busy with big plans for transforming Connecticut. Though state government is rolling in federal cash, the Democrats want to tax business and the wealthy a lot more. They want to overthrow suburban zoning. They want state government to start selling medical insurance to small businesses. They would legalize and commercialize marijuana and erase thousands of criminal records. They seek a vast expansion of state-sanctioned gambling.
But that’s all in the future. What Democratic legislators don’t want to do is take responsibility for running Connecticut in
the present.
Instead once again the Democratic legislators want to leave the daily nitty-gritty to Governor Lamont, who is acting with becoming modesty as King Ned the First and has governed by executive order for more than a year on the false presumption that the virus epidemic prevents the legislature from doing its ordinary work. In fact the legislature has been convened f
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Tolland agrees to settlement with insurer over crumbling concrete
Journal Inquirer (Manchester, CT)
The Town Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a settlement offer with
Connecticut Interlocal Risk Management Agency, CIRMA, the town s insurer to resolve pending claims of crumbling foundations.
Under the settlement, CIRMA pays the town
$600,000 in exchange for release from all present and future damage claims to the town buildings, and that all parties bear all of their own costs and expenses relating to the claims resolved by the agreement.
CONCRETE SETTLEMENT
OFFER: The insurer will pay the town
$600,000
Richard Conti said Tuesday. It has been a difficult negotiation.
Ex-children s museum leader pleads not guilty to child porn
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 9, 2021 at 10:58 am EDT
HARTFORD, Conn. A former leader of a Connecticut children’s museum has been charged with distributing images of child sexual abuse online, including while he worked for the museum.
Robert Eckert, 56, of Simsbury, former executive director of the Lutz Children’s Museum in Manchester, pleaded not guilty to one count of distribution of child pornography Thursday via a video conference in federal court in Hartford. He is detained pending a bail hearing Friday afternoon.
The museum, founded in 1953, offers educational programs and exhibits including live animals. It is known around the state as home to Chuckles, Connecticut’s spring-prognosticating groundhog.
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