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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.
ICE arrested seven people at a Newington car wash Saturday morning, according to a Facebook post by Newington Mayor Jon Trister.
A local veteran received two medals in acknowledgement of his service to the country in a ceremony in city council chambers at Bristol City Hall.
U.S. Congressman Rep. John Larson presented Command Chief Warrant Officer Patrick Nelligan with the Meritorious Service Medal and Legion of Merit Retirement Award on Thursday, Aug. 21.
“Officer Nelligan has led a life of service, both to our nation in the U.S. Army and to his community in Bristol,” said Larson, in a release Friday.
Unions representing government workers say chronic understaffing, job cuts and what they call union-busting by the White House are hindering services for the 60,000 veterans in Connecticut, and millions more around the country, who get their healthcare through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
Rep. John B Larson, D-1, presented both the Meritorious Service Medal and Legion of Merit Retirement Award to Bristol veteran Patrick Nelligan, according to the lawmaker, recognizing his 42 years of service.
This month marks the 90th anniversary of Social Security, and while defenders of the program celebrate its legacy, they raise new warnings of what they call an increasingly real threat in the Trump era: privatization.
While wholesale replacement of the government-run retirement and disability program with private accounts has long been considered politically radioactive, advocates say recent actions by the Trump administration show it could happen, if not directly, then “through the back door.”
Mike Turek had the perfect retirement home — in a planned cluster community on Deer Run Trail in which the homeowners also own the land, much different than a condominium.
The home also had a unique characteristic — it was mostly in Manchester, but the back of the property inches into Vernon.
But then things changed.
"I never thought I'd be living on a construction site," the 67-year-old Turek said.
New federal funding is on the way to help homeowners grappling with the lasting damage of pyrrhotite-infused concrete in their foundations.
The issue of crumbling foundations in Connecticut stretches back decades. Millions of dollars of state-funded relief have flowed into impacted communities.
President Donald Trump's pick for commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has argued for "sunsetting" Social Security, calling it a "Ponzi scheme."
Trump nominated Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni to lead the BLS less than two weeks after firing the agency's former commissioner, Erika McEntarfer, in response to weaker-than-expected job numbers. The dismissal has fueled concerns that upcoming BLS reports could be altered to advance Trump's political agenda.
U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to replace the top labor statistics official he fired earlier this month has called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme" that needs to be "sunset," comments that critics said further disqualify the nominee for the key government role.