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The CROWN Act will prohibit workplace discrimination based on hairstyles that are commonly associated with people of color, such as afros, Bantu knots, braids, cornrows, dreadlocks, and twists. Continue Reading →
The DMV’s new online renewal option has already been offered to residents whose driver’s license or non-driver ID expired within the last 45 days. Continue Reading →
“”The pharma companies say they are manufacturing a lot of this, and for reasons that are hard to track, we’re not sure where is it and why aren’t we getting more.” – Marna Borgstrom, CEO, Yale New Haven Health System Continue Reading →
Governor Ned Lamont announced on Thursday that his administration will deliver an additional $40 million to Connecticut’s acute care hospitals to support their ongoing work responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding, which comes from the state’s Coronavirus Relief Fund, will be distributed to non-governmental, short-term general hospitals that meet certain requirements based on applicable costs and expenses incurred as a result of the pandemic. It supplements the over $980 million direct federal funding received by the hospitals to date during the pandemic. “This funding recognizes the frontline role Connecticut’s hospitals and their dedicated employees have played throughout this pandemic,” Lamont said in a release. “It is not an overstatement to say that this role has been heroic and continues to be indispensable as we all work together to defeat the virus. Continue Reading →
Connecticut’s daily test positivity rate continued to trend downward, and had dropped to 3.86%, which Gov Lamont described as “remarkable.” Hospitalizations were also trending down Continue Reading →
“I think every day you’re going to see somebody like Dr. Grant who took the vaccine. There were no side effects. He felt good. He feels safer. And I think that’s what it will take to get from 60, to 70, to 80, to 90 percent of the people willing to get this vaccine on a timely basis.” – Ned Lamont Continue Reading →
On Friday Greenwich First Selectman Fred Camillo announced the total number of positive cases in town increased 104 from 1,656 on Wednesday to 1,760.
In one week – Friday, Nov 27 to Friday, Dec 4 – Greenwich had an increase of active 224 cases. Continue Reading →
Governor Lamont shared 3 days of Covid numbers: while hospitalizations and fatalities were up, the state’s positivity rate was down. Continue Reading →
The rules impact team sports (team is considered a group of more than 4 people jointly engaged in an organized or recreational athletic activity on a court, field, etc), as well as gyms and fitness centers. Continue Reading →
In consideration of playing football at a later time, the CIAC board of control has a number of questions including how has the viability of synthetic surface fields passing the G-max test during winter months. Continue Reading →