Eliza Fawcett

“It’s painful to hear when my friends tell me how loud missiles are when they hit my hometown,” said Andrii Kryvoruchko, 23, a senior at the University of New Haven.

If Congress can’t find common ground — or if the funding is significantly slashed from Biden’s original proposal — the impact could reverberate to Connecticut.

The partnership comes at a time when hospitals in Connecticut and many other states have struggled to fill nursing positions,

As the highly transmissible omicron subvariant BA.2 gains ground in Connecticut, Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Manisha Juthani said Wednesday that the state is preparing for a potential spike in COVID-19 cases.

Members of the CVH Whiting Task Force, residents of Whiting Forensic Hospital and other speakers addressed state lawmakers during a marathon public hearing on Monday regarding proposals to improve the scandal-plagued state psychiatric hospital in Middletown, which cares for people found not guilty of crimes by reason of insanity

“When you come in about a year and it’s finished, you’re just going to see a big flat surface,” said David Kooris, chairman of the board of directors of the Connecticut Port Authority.

Testifying in support of the bill, Senate President Pro Tempore Sen. Martin Looney, D-New Haven, said that children and adults fleeing family violence face limited options as they seek help.

In the years following his Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Paul McMahon took the disease in stride, his wife said, maintaining a positive outlook and often assuring her, “We’ve got this.” Last summer, though, things quickly began to change.

Connecticut reported 62 additional deaths over the past week on Thursday, bringing its total during the pandemic to 10,677.

Gov. Ned Lamont, state officials and city leaders championed on Wednesday a proposed bill, currently under consideration by the Judiciary Committee, that would address gun violence in Connecticut by supporting community intervention programs and expanding the authority of law enforcement.

“This session, some of the most important things that will happen across all different committees may be the work on children’s mental health,” state Sen. Saud Anwar, a D-South Windsor, said.

Sara Bronin noted that the bill would apply to roughly 40 municipalities across the state with existing transit hubs, from Greenwich to New Haven, New London and Windsor Locks.

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, Connecticut faces a deepening crisis in children’s mental health care, according to multiple experts and lawmakers.

U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy urged the Biden administration on Friday to take additional measures to support Ukraine and its citizens, including by raising the nation’s annual refugee admissions cap.

“The testing positivity rate has gone way down, the hospitalizations have gone down,” Yale New Haven Health CEO Marna Borgstrom said this week.