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Homes with crumbling foundations in Conn. eligible for grant funds for repairs

The Crumbling Foundation Remediation and Restoration Program helps fund extra costs for foundation repairs, such as sidewalks, decks and landscaping.

The town meeting is a Yankee tradition. Does it still make sense?

Has this form of CT government outlived its usefulness?

CT towns grapple with how to govern as civic participation declines

Lots has changed in the centuries since the town meeting became CT's default form of town government. Some say it's outlived its usefulness.

Does CT need 169 municipalities? Some say merging makes sense

At a fall press conference about a plan to rebuild Hartford’s highways, Congressman John Larson praised the mayors of Hartford and East Hartford, Luke Bronin and Mike Walsh, for how well they were working together to get the major infrastructure initiative underway. This prompted Bronin to say he was “ready to sign the merger agreement” joining the two communities. Walsh nodded and smiled. To be clear, there is no merger agreement, proposal or plan to consolidate the two municipalities that are separated by the Connecticut River. Bronin was kidding.