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HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Stationary and gift boutique Hartford Prints! celebrated its grand reopening in downtown Hartford with a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday.
The new store is 3,500 square feet, nearly three times the size of the old location that opened in 2013. The transformation was made possible by the Hart Lift Program, an initiative to bolster storefronts impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner Frank Bisignano has not ruled out raising the retirement age to help shore up the payment system's solvency.
If Congress wanted to push back against President Donald Trump’s tariffs, it could have done so at any time by voting to end the White House’s declaration of a national emergency, which, Trump claims, grants him sweeping trade powers. But Republicans have repeatedly ceded their authority over trade to the executive branch using sneaky and sometimes bizarre legislative maneuvers to avoid voting on one of the administration’s most controversial policies.
U.S. Rep. John B. Larson said he has cosponsored a bill that would bar members of Congress from owning, buying or selling stocks.
He’s backing the Restore Trust in Congress Act, which would prohibit not only members, but their spouses, dependent children and trustees from owning, buying or selling individual stocks, securities, commodities, futures and other comparable assets.
Just one minute before the White House distributed via email a new executive order further dismantling collective bargaining protections for U.S. federal workers, President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor made another, somewhat surprising announcement.