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CT s P & D Ranking Leaders Voice Concerns Written by Sarah Clark
HARTFORD, CT - The CT State House just passed HB 6107, which was amended to incorporate additional Planning and Development bills’ sweeping changes from the original HB 6611 and SB 1024. These bills were drafted at the behest of interest groups. Following the vote, Planning and Development Committee Ranking Members Senator Tony Hwang (R-28) and Representative Joe Zullo (R-99) offered the following statements:
“This is a creation of feigned compromise. This bill has been crafted to maximize a one-shot attempt to ram through blanket, statewide mandates. When reading the strike-all amendment, I interestingly found that it included the more palatable portions of the two drafted bills,” said Sen. Hwang.
Mark Pazniokas / CT Mirror
SPRINGFIELD Late-afternoon gamblers strolling past the baccarat table ignored its sole player, a brooding dark-haired man whose gaze rarely left the table. He wore a white N95 mask, purple nitrile gloves and a lightweight hoodie the color of his chips, a bluish gray.
On her rounds at MGM Springfield, Amy Gabrila noticed him right away. The golden RESERVED placard on the table marked him as a high roller, as did the color and quantity of his chips. Grays are the color of money in Massachusetts casinos, each worth $5,000.
“He’s got about $210,000 in chips in front of him,” said Gabrila, a former casino dealer. She spoke in the low voice of a golf commentator.
State Senate declares racism a public-health crisis
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State Sen. Mary Daugherty Abrams, D-Meriden, co-chairman of the legislative Public Health Committee.Contributed photo / Mary Abrams /Show MoreShow Less
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State Sen. Tony Hwang, R-Fairfield, the top Republican on the legislative Public Health Committee.Contributed / Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney, D-New HavenKen Dixon / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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HARTFORD A year after the Black Lives Matter movement changed the national conversation on racial equity, and disparities in health, money and justice disparities, the state Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would declare racism a public health crisis.