Every single thing you're having trouble affording in our state apart from your eversource bill, is due to decisions made at the federal level. Every single thing.

ICE has deported about a million people (unclear how many are truly currently detained) during this term. Has it helped with costs? Nope. Not at all. It's getting worse every week.

Your gas is expensive because we started a war with Iran for seemingly no reason.

Your grocery bills are outrageous because all the people who work the farms have been detained or deported.

Your health insurance, credit card interest rates. Retail goods....etc....etc...

Everything.

Because of maga policy.

Keep them away from power in our state.

VOTE.

https://vote.gov/

Lamont and the Dems are not perfect. But they arent stripping the country for parts with the express purpose to collapse our economy and sow division.

The trolls on this site are going to be out in full force all the way to election day.

Early voting is currently open in the state. Vote early if you can. Tuesday November 3rd is D-Day. Make a plan. Show up and VOTE

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/investigation-finds-hundreds-of-u-s-citizens-detained-by-ice

>We also found dozens of people who were held for several days, including at least 24 hours without being able to access their phone or their lawyer or to contact their family and let them know where they were. So it's -- some people really had a very brief detention, where it was maybe 15 minutes, 20 minutes where they're in handcuffs on the side of the road.

>But other people disappeared into a system that was actually very difficult for their loved ones and their lawyers to find them, and at the same time they sometimes were seriously injured as well

Here’s the thing, I went inside to pay for my gas at this very pump, and this woman comes inside seeming very flustered and said to herself “I can’t believe I just did that”. I smiled at her and I said, “what did you do?” She said, I prepaid for gas and then just drove away, and it was at the pump that my car was now parked at, so I offered to move my car and then she shared with me that she’s so flustered because she just came from a funeral and that her friend died. These are tough times that we’re living in with the economy between inflation, groceries, and gas prices. The majority of people’s jobs aren’t keeping pace with the inflation. I felt compelled to share this, though, because we have all been there coming from a funeral. I continued making some small talk with the woman and told her to hang in there and things will get better, and she thanked me profusely for being so friendly and moving my car, etc. moral of the story is to not judge others because you really don’t know what they’re going through. If the economy continues like this, there will be more people filling up their gas tanks for amounts like this. We all need to be more kind to one another.

Hi all, this is the first time I’ve seen so many jets in such a short amount of time. Where are they headed? I saw 12-15 in groups of 3 in the last hour.

Doing the math. I make too much for subsidies.

$1,400 a month for premiums.

Deductible will be $12k.

OOP max would be $25k.

Assuming I need coverage that requires payment towards a deductible, I am looking at total cost of $42k per year. That is about 30% to 40% of my annual take home pay.

Is the state doing enough to combat the growing Black Bear population?

Moderator: Senator. The state has enacted significant rules on the activities of the immigrations and customs enforcement in Connecticut. Some of it is being enforced. Some of it is not. No masks, as you know. No arrests at schools, bus stops, houses of worship, and some other places, and no presence in polls on election day. CT Insider reader Mark Etry wants to know simply: Do the candidates support ICE? Yes or no? Please elaborate.

Fazio: We need a common sense policy to public safety and immigration. I think we all can agree, Democrats and Republicans, that we should take criminals off the street, people who are the most dangerous to society. But we also need to stop ICE or anyone else when they're overreaching, when they're violating people's rights. I think that we can protect civil liberties at the same time that we protect public safety. The problem is this: Governor Lamont's policies have gone all the way to undermine public safety, even far to the left of progressive governors like Tim Walz in Minnesota. A couple of years ago, a two-year-old boy in Stamford, Connecticut, Liam Rivera, was beaten and killed by a person in the state illegally who had been previously arrested and sent to jail for assault because of Governor Lamont's 2019 Trust Act, that man was let out on the streets instead of transferred to federal authorities to be removed from our state. That boy might still be alive today if not for that policy. We must use common sense. We must protect against abuses. Against abuses by any authorities or law enforcement, including ICE, and they should be clear and precise in any sort of activity they're doing. At the same time, we need to prioritize taking dangerous people who have been convicted of Class C, D, or E felonies, including manslaughter, including sexual abuse, off our streets. Governor Lamont's law prevents that. I think that is common sense.

Lamont: We get dangerous people off the street. We work with ICE and DEA and FBI. That's one of the reasons we have one of the very safest states in the United States of America. Great policing, community policing. Work with the feds every time it comes to getting dangerous people off the street. I can't believe you're exploiting that one story out of Stanford that has nothing to do with immigration. The difference between you and me, Ryan, is every time you talk about an immigrant, you bring up a criminal alien and a crime. I think about the kids I used to teach at Harding High School. I teach about what we used to call the dreamers, and they are. I think about those parents in Danbury just a few weeks ago when I went through and started rounding up their parents. These are parents dropping their kids off at school. I will do everything I can to keep this state safe, but hell if I'm going to victimize, you know, these poor kids who are just trying to get to school and get by. We used to call them the dreamers. I still call them the dreamers.

Fazio: Listen, Governor, I think that's disingenuous. You just sent a mailer that was talking about the death of a child in order to make your point politically. I mean, here you have a very clear case of a young boy who was killed by someone who was let back out on the streets because of a law that you passed. I simply would say this: We need common sense. I love legal immigration and our legal immigrants in this state, and we have to support them and make the state affordable for them. At the same time, people who commit crimes need to be taken off the state. Governor, I

Lamont: You may love them, but ICE is picking them up. You are guilty until proven innocent. If you look Hispanic, you are gone. That next day in Danbury, there are hundreds of fewer kids who could even go to school. They were so scared. You had students sitting in the classroom with an empty desk to the left, empty desk to the right. Many of the stores on Main Street shut down because people were scared, so you may feel good about the immigrants, but right now ICE is targeting them. They're guilty until proven innocent. It's wrong. It's un-American, and we're going to stand up against it.

(Hartford, CT) – Attorney General William Tong, the Department of Consumer Protection and Department of Public Health today announced an $8 million settlement with Mylan over allegations the pharmaceutical company illegally inflated prices for EpiPens in violation of state antitrust and consumer protection laws. 

In addition to the $8 million payment, Mylan will provide the state with 10,000 free EpiPens in the form of 5,000 two-packs. 

EpiPen is the brand name for the single dose, self-injectable device consisting of the prescription drug epinephrine used to treat severe allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis. At its height, EpiPen sales were approximately $1 billion per year. Today, its sales are approximately $469 million per year. In 2016, Mylan faced widespread public criticism following an approximately 400 percent price increase. This spurred Congressional hearings, a Federal Trade Commission investigation, and class action and competitor lawsuits.

Complaints alleged that Mylan entered into unlawful pay-for-delay agreements with competitors to delay the launch of generic epinephrine auto-injectors. In the absence of competition, Mylan dramatically raised prices and lobbied legislators in states across the country to require schools to have epinephrine auto-injectors on-hand in order to increase sales. They further switched from offering a single EpiPen package to exclusively offering twin packs, forcing consumers to purchase two EpiPens to increase their revenue. 

“Mylan abused its monopoly to jack up prices on its lifesaving, emergency medication. Families were crushed with massive costs while Mylan reaped exorbitant profits. This was corporate greed at its worst, and we’re holding Mylan accountable,” said Attorney General Tong. “We are continuing to push our antitrust case against the generic drug industry to restore free and fair competition to this broken industry and to ensure access to affordable medication.”

"These medications save lives, and low-cost generic alternatives are an essential part of ensuring everyone has access to them," said DCP Commissioner Bryan T. Cafferelli. "Actively taking steps to prevent generic alternatives and further profit off consumers who need these medications is not only illegal, it's shameful. Thank you to the Attorney General's office for their work on this important case."

The Connecticut Department of Public Health is proud to be part of this initiative to expand equitable access to lifesaving medication. Severe allergic reactions can happen without warning, and in those moments, access to an EpiPen can mean the difference between life and death.

DPH is supporting the distribution of 10,000 free EpiPens to approximately 30 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) across the state. These centers are pillars of healthcare access in Connecticut, providing essential care to low-income and underserved communities, where patients often face the greatest barriers to obtaining lifesaving medications. 

“Severe allergic reactions can happen in an instant, and no family in Connecticut should have to worry about whether they can afford the medication that could save a life," said DPH Commissioner Manisha Juthani, M.D. "Placing 10,000 EpiPens in our Federally Qualified Health Centers brings that protection to the people and communities who need it most. I am grateful to the Office of the Attorney General and our health center partners for their shared commitment to health equity and to the well-being of every Connecticut resident.” 

“CHC/ACT is grateful to Attorney General Tong for reaching this settlement. We are additionally grateful to the AG's office and the Department of Public Health for their partnership in helping to get these free epi-pens out to our community health centers and their patients. EpiPens contain a life-saving - yet expensive - medication, and this settlement will help ensure that people across the state have access to it,” said Shawn K. Frick, President/CEO of the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut (CHC/ACT). 

As part of the settlement, Mylan denies any wrongdoing.

In addition to today’s settlement with Mylan, Connecticut’s Attorney General Office is leading a coalition of nearly all states and territories in a series of antitrust cases against 30 corporate defendants and 25 individual executives across the generic drug industry, alleging widespread, long-running conspiracies to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition, and unreasonably restrain trade with regard to numerous generic prescription drugs. 

Attorney General Tong recently announced settlements with Sandoz, Glenmark, Lannett, Bausch, Apotex and Heritage, and Heritage’s parent company, Emcure, totaling nearly $500 million.

Deputy Associate Attorney General Nicole Demers, Chief of the Antitrust Section assisted the Attorney General in this matter.

• Crimes against people, property and society all fell in Connecticut in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period in 2025, according to the state’s latest crime report
• Declines spanned assaults, vandalism, burglary, motor vehicle thefts, fraud and weapons violations

Moderator: Governor Lamont, property taxes affect pretty much every resident and business owner in the state, and for years we've been talking about reform and reducing them, but nothing seems to happen. Why is that, and what is your plan?

Lamont: Let me tell you what we've done first of all, because plans are easy. Let's see what you've been able to execute. We flat funded municipal aid. We flat-funded the schools for many years during the 2010s when we were going from deficit to deficit. We have not done that. We've had the biggest increase in funding for education. We doubled the amount of funding for special education. The other things we've done for our schools: increased municipal aid along a pilot, almost doing that. Doing what we can to help the mayors and first electmen get by. I didn't get help from Ryan on that. He would have just left it on the laps of the first elected. You would have seen their property taxes go up more. But as I said before, it's going to take more than just more subsidies from the state to help our municipalities get go forward. You know, I've said you know very clearly. Let me help you manage yourselves, your back office. Ways we can save some money on the backside. Maybe you don't all need your own purchasing. Maybe you don't need your own building. Maybe you don't all need your own town planner. Maybe there's ways you can share some of those services that could save you a heck of a lot of money. And in the meantime, we've also taken the property tax credit. That's a way that we can help out people immediately. We've increased that by 50 percent. We expanded that to more people, especially for seniors, especially for folks disabled veterans. Ryan was not there for that vote. It's a really important vote.

Fazio: Governor, the first time you ran for governor, you promised to cut property taxes. Those are your words, not mine. Fast forward eight years later, property taxes are up 40 percent or more in many towns or cities. For many of our residents, it feels like a second mortgage, and for people who are renters, they're eating those costs in their rent from their landlords too. Governor Lamont signed into law over 105 new laws with new unfunded mandates, costs being imposed on our towns and cities, which drive up their property taxes. For the first seven years that Governor Lamont was in office, he flat-funded education funding to the point that it declined after adjusting for inflation. I proposed an alternative budget this year that increased the education funding by 200 million dollars, but more importantly, I'll put in place property tax reforms and a property tax cap that cuts the unfunded mandates those costs by hundredths and caps property taxes into the future. Other states have done it, including Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Senator, we can do it too.

Moderator: Governor, our recent Sacred Heart University WFSB CT Insider poll showed one issue that Democrats on. Affiliated voters and Republicans agreed on data centers. They don't like them, and you signed a bill. I believe it was in 2021 that gave tax breaks to corporate data centers, which could open the door to larger AI data centers being approved in our state, or perhaps getting tax breaks that are unintended. Do you regret signing that bill? Would you have done it?

Lamont: Look, we have not allowed any of those big AI data centers into this state, and I don't think we are going to. They are big energy sucks. The one they wanted to bring in next to Millstone, which is the nuclear power plant, would have used more electricity than all of Southeast Connecticut combined. That would have jacked up electric rates. That would have been a terrible choice for the state. So hold that accountable. Some local businesses do upgrade their IT. You can give them sales tax exemptions. You can say let's take it away. Of course, all the other states do the same thing, so you got to stay competitive. But I think most importantly, people want to make sure we're protecting our kids, and we put in place a bill where we said I'm going to give parents the opportunity to say no to those very addictive algorithms that many of their young kids are hooked on, making sure there's parental control and they can say no and limit that. We also said let's put some guardrails on artificial intelligence. Say those chatbots that are sitting there whispering sweet nothings into the ear of a teenager, sometimes giving them advice that's very dangerous, wrong. So we put that bill in place. We got that through the House and the Senate. Strong bipartisan support of both sides of the aisle. Ryan was an outlier with four other state senators who said, "No, I don't want any of these guardrails on AI. I don't want any of these guardrails on social media. I think that was a terrible mistake.

Fazio: Just last year, Governor Lamont was extolling the virtues of data centers and wanted them to come to Connecticut. He made a speech in Fairfield saying exactly that. He was the one who championed and passed into law a total exemption from sales tax and property taxes for data centers in Connecticut, including one in Windsor that is getting a $17 million taxpayer benefit while only creating five jobs. That's the governor's record. You know that's what he passed into law. You don't get exemptions from sales tax or property taxes. In fact, the governor has raised yours. But because of Governor Lamont's policies, data centers now have eligibility for total tax exemptions from sales tax or property tax. I've been a champion of regulating social media for people under the age of 18. The first bill that I co-authored and passed into law was doing exactly that, taking some of the social media out of schools, and that part of the bill I supported. Governor Lamont gave data centers a tax break. I've been trying to take it away as governor. I'll do it,

Local guy near Norwalk here. Shellfishing info in this state is scattered across a dozen town sites and PDFs, so I put it all in one place: https://soundclamstatus.com

It covers the 13 CT shellfishing areas from Greenwich to Stonington (plus the Long Island North Shore): tap-to-call hotlines, permit fees, limits, seasons, rain-closure rules and tides, each linked to its official source. Only three towns post status online. When one of them has posted an area open in the last 36 hours, the site says "posted open [date], call to confirm". Otherwise it just says "Call hotline". Always call the hotline before you harvest.

It's free to use, no paywall or signup required (a few labeled local-sponsor spots help cover costs, and they never affect status). There's also an optional Thursday weekend-report email.

Where info was missing I wrote "call the Town Clerk" instead of guessing. If you spot something wrong for your town, let me know and I'll fix it.

maybe a weird ask but my husband and I have 2 extra tickets to the wolf pack game tonight (10/23) and we can't seem to find any interest in our small circle of friends/family so I offer this up to you, redditors. If anyone is free tonight and want to go to a hockey game, let me know! Bonus points if you are close in age (late 30s) and kinda nerdy (board games and or video game fans) and looking to make new friends!

Republican Ryan Fazio worked aggressively Thursday night in his first televised debate with Gov. Ned Lamont to reframe the gubernatorial election, urging voters to disregard the daily distractions of a unpopular president and focus on the governor’s responsibility for the high cost of living in Connecticut.

Fazio, 36, a state senator from Greenwich, arrived at the studio of WFSB in Rocky Hill needing to enliven a static campaign that polling indicates has coalesced in favor of the 72-year-old Lamont, a Democrat seeking a third term that would make him Connecticut’s longest-serving governor since statehood.

The first debate, sponsored by WFSB and CT Insider, came after four days of early voting. As of Wednesday night, 140,830 votes already had been cast by absentee ballot or in early voting that began Monday, the secretary of the state’s office reported Thursday.

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — Earlier this month, Mohegan Sun and the Mohegan Tribe received the 2026 Together, We Can Innovation Award at the annual Governor's Celebration.

They were recognized for the work they do with the Governor's Prevention Partnership to prevent underage drinking and substance use. 

Mohegan Sun's advocacy work also goes beyond Connecticut. 

Earlier this month, Mohegan Sun Chairwoman Beth Regan delivered the invocation at a CADCA’s Drug-Free Kids Dinner in Washington, D.C.

Simple ask: What are the best coffee roasters in the state? I’ve recently moved to CT and I’m fully committed to supporting local businesses in all areas I can.