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MANCHESTER, CT — After years of mounting losses and uncertainty over their survival, Manchester Memorial Hospital and its Rockville campus entered a new chapter Monday as Hartford HealthCare formally marked its takeover of the two community hospitals.
While the wealthy were sleeping off New Year’s Eve, more than 293 Americans paid all their Social Security tax for the year. Unlike the richest earners, 95% of Americans will pay for the entire year.
This week, the Trump administration suspended the leases for five offshore wind projects along the East Coast.
“Trump obviously doesn’t care much about the future,” said Democratic Rep. John Larson from Connecticut, one of the states impacted. “He only cares about himself.”
President Donald Trump's administration has renewed attempts to stop the construction of the offshore Revolution Wind project.
Connecticut will defeat what Attorney General William Tong called “a new brazen attempt” from the administration of President Donald Trump to block construction of the Revolution Wind project on national security grounds.
The Trump administration’s efforts to thwart a transition from climate-wrecking fossil fuels to renewable energy continued on Monday with a halt on five wind farms along the US East Coast under the guise of national security concerns.
Connecticut lawmakers are calling the latest Trump administration order stopping several Northeast offshore wind farm projects an attack.
Connecticut's top democratic leaders are reacting to the latest move from the Trump Administration to pause leases on five large-scale offshore wind projects that are under construction on the east coast.
The administration cites the Pentagon's decision that the projects present national security risks.
Some Connecticut community school programs have been notified by the federal government that a Biden-era grant is going to be discontinued.
A Connecticut member of Congress has joined others in introducing a measure they say is intended to take on “the cost-of-living crisis squeezing families nationwide,” to “expand affordable housing, lower energy bills, cut taxes for working families, help student loan borrowers, and protect households from skyrocketing healthcare premiums.”