Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) announced today that he has appointed Norwalk Mayor Harry Rilling to the Task Force to Study the Training Curriculum and Education of Law Enforcement Officers. Source: CT Senate RSS Feed
Senate Majority Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) today cheered a new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation ranking Connecticut as one of the five best states in the nation for overall child wellbeing. Source: CT Senate RSS Feed
According to Fortune Magazine’s 2016 list of Fortune 500 companies, Connecticut’s 18 Fortune 500 companies put it at the top of the list of states when measured on a per-capita basis. Source: CT Senate RSS Feed
“The Republicans’ sudden interest in the needs of poor people is heartwarming. It’s also absurd. Where was this concern when they voted against the Earned Income Tax Credit, maybe the single most effective way to help lift people out of poverty? What about when they voted all those times against increasing the minimum wage—another effective…
“The level of hypocrisy here is mind-boggling. If you cut down all the trees in all the forests of our beautiful state you still wouldn’t have enough paper to list all the times Republican legislators voted to cut various types of local funding—oftentimes for education—and services for the poor, including health care. For them to…
Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff (D-Norwalk) joined Side by Side School Director Matthew Nittoly and state and local officials to announce that on Thursday the General Assembly gave its final approval to $2.5 million in funding to help Side by Side build a new, permanent middle school. Sen. Duff played a critical role in securing…