July 7, 2024
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CT theater groups seek millions in funding lawmakers slashed

More than a dozen theater organizations — including the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Torrington’s Warner Theater, Waterbury’s Palace Theater and the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford — are calling on state leaders to restore millions of dollars in funding that lawmakers slashed during the 2024 legislative session, which wrapped last month. Collectively,

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Legislators balk at calls for school meal funding

When faced with pleas to extend Connecticut’s free school meal program, leaders of the Appropriations Committee encouraged testifiers at a public hearing Tuesday to go back to their districts and tap into federal COVID relief funds. The committee chairs expressed resistance to H.B. 5510, a bill that would renew the $11.2 million program that has

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