NavigateThe legislature’s budget-writing committee is recommending that the state spend $180 million more on municipal aid in the fiscal year that begins July 1, a 7.4% increase.By comparison, Gov. Ned Lamont’s released in February recommended flat-funding education and spending $50 million more on municipal aid, a 2% increase. That increase, however, would be a one-time infusion paid for by borrowing, as the governor did not recommend it continue into the second year of his two-year budget proposal.Municipalities also are slated to get hundreds of millions in additional federal pandemic...…NavigateThe legislature’s budget-writing committee is recommending that the state spend $180 million more on municipal aid in the fiscal year that begins July 1, a 7.4% increase.By comparison, Gov. Ned Lamont’s released in February recommended flat-funding education and spending $50 million more on municipal aid, a 2% increase. That increase, however, would be a one-time infusion paid for by borrowing, as the governor did not recommend it continue into the second year of his two-year budget proposal.Municipalities also are slated to get hundreds of millions in additional federal pandemic...WW…

NavigateA coalition of state and national civil rights groups filed a against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in federal court on Thursday, claiming that a new Trump administration will make it much more difficult to challenge unfair housing practices in Connecticut and Rhode Island.The rule, set to go into effect on Monday, “would immediately render it virtually impossible for most victims of discrimination to prevail in HUD’s administrative enforcement process,” reads the 66-page lawsuit filed by Connecticut’s Open Communities Alliance and SouthCoast Fair Housing...…NavigateA coalition of state and national civil rights groups filed a against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in federal court on Thursday, claiming that a new Trump administration will make it much more difficult to challenge unfair housing practices in Connecticut and Rhode Island.The rule, set to go into effect on Monday, “would immediately render it virtually impossible for most victims of discrimination to prevail in HUD’s administrative enforcement process,” reads the 66-page lawsuit filed by Connecticut’s Open Communities Alliance and SouthCoast Fair Housing...WW…

LET�S GET SOCIALShow your love for great stories and out standing journalismGov. Ned Lamont said Thursday he will use his emergency powers to extend until October the ban on evictions, a step that will require him to either declare a new public health emergency or seek legislative support for the dozens of orders that otherwise expire on Sept. 9, the last day of the six-month emergency declared in March.During a late-afternoon briefing, Lamont confirmed what has been clear for weeks: Connecticut’s battle with the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 would not expire with the emergency...…LET�S GET SOCIALShow your love for great stories and out standing journalismGov. Ned Lamont said Thursday he will use his emergency powers to extend until October the ban on evictions, a step that will require him to either declare a new public health emergency or seek legislative support for the dozens of orders that otherwise expire on Sept. 9, the last day of the six-month emergency declared in March.During a late-afternoon briefing, Lamont confirmed what has been clear for weeks: Connecticut’s battle with the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 would not expire with the emergency...WW…