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State Officials, Educators Celebrate $300M Early Childhood Endowment
CT News Junkie - Connecticut
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July 24, 2025
State Rep. Mary Welander speaks about Connecticut’s Early Childhood Education Endowment on July 24, 2025. Credit: Donald Eng / CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — The campus of one of Connecticut’s most prestigious colleges may seem like an odd location...
As deportation fears keep immigrants from work, their churches feel financial strain
Religion News Service
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July 24, 2025
(RNS) — At Celebration Church, a Portuguese- and English-speaking Baptist congregation in the Boston area, the benevolence fund is supposed to be there to help church families meet basic needs, such as food, clothing and heat, throughout the year....
Highest-earning counties in Connecticut
Voices News - Connecticut
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Highest-earning counties in Connecticut Data shows that annual annual income depends heavily on an individual's educational attainment, race, ethnicity, gender, and even location. One cluster of the United States is particularly well off: The five...
Unscientific Predictions: 2025 Big East Volleyball Preseason Awards
Anonymous Eagle - Wisconsin
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August 1, 2025
HELLO AND WELCOME TO AUGUST! The Marquette volleyball season starts 28 days from today, but history has shown us that the Big East tends to like releasing the volleyball preseason all-conference honors first out of the three fall sports we cover...
Rosa DeLauro criticizes GOP on environment, education funding, and minimum wage
SC Connecticut News
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July 24, 2025
Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Congresswoman representing Connecticut’s 3rd district since 1991, has used her social media platform to criticize Republican policies and highlight issues affecting working families, public education, and environmental...
Notes: Newport Gulls, Mystic Schooners set for winner-take-all game 3 at Cardines Field
What's Up Newp - Rhode Island
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August 3, 2025
Good morning, Newport! 🗓️ Today is Sunday, Aug. 3, the 215th day of 2025. There are 150 days left in the year. 🚨 You need to know The Newport Gulls will host the Mystic Schooners in a winner-take-all Game 3 of their New England Collegiate Baseball...
What is Celtics Co-Owner Steve Pagliuca’s Net Worth in 2025?
Essentially Sports
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August 3, 2025
“I will never stop being a Celtic,” said Steve Pagliuca when predicting that he might not be successful in securing a bid for the Boston-based franchise. Sure enough, the Grousbecks decided to ignore the former co-owner and instead sell the...
New Yorkers are triggered by Connecticut's 'rage bait' pizza advertising campaign
Connecticut Public Radio
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July 24, 2025
State officials say a campaign promoting Connecticut's pizza prowess hit its mark, sparking strong pushback and some profanity-laced tirades from New Yorkers. The Connecticut Office of Statewide Marketing & Tourism recently placed billboards in...
CT’s Biggest Children’s Hospitals End Gender-Affirming Meds For Minors Amid Federal Pressure
Daily Voice
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July 24, 2025
Yale New Haven Health confirmed it will stop prescribing medication as part of its gender-affirming care for minors. The announcement came shortly after Connecticut Children’s Medical Center revealed it would also be “winding down” its youth...
Democrats, Republicans split on providers' decision to roll back gender-affirming care
NBC Connecticut
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July 24, 2025
Democratic leaders expressed disappointment and concern after two healthcare providers announced changes or closures of pediatric gender-affirming care programs. They also said they want to find ways to support access to that care, although some...
A timeline of Colorado gun laws since the Aurora movie theater shooting
The Canon City Daily Record - Colorado
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August 3, 2025
Colorado lawmakers have passed a slew of new firearm laws in the dozen years since a major local mass shooting — with the bulk of them enacted in just the last five legislative sessions. Here’s a timeline of the major laws, along with several...
AVIAC president on states’ lawsuit challenging Trump immigration policies: Illegal immigrants ‘costing states billions’
Chicago City Wire - Illinois
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July 24, 2025
Don Rosenberg, president of Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime (AVIAC), objected to a lawsuit filed by Illinois and 20 other states aimed at blocking Trump administration rules that limit federal education and health care funding based...
Yale follows Connecticut Children’s in gutting pediatric gender care
The Derrick and The News-Herald - Pennsylvania
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HARTFORD, Conn. — Under threat from the Trump administration, Connecticut hospitals are ending gender-affirming care for transgender and gender diverse youth, potentially leaving hundreds of young people without lifesaving care. Connecticut...
Activision seeks dismissal of Uvalde suit
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 20, 2025
LOS ANGELES -- A lawyer for the maker of the video game Call of Duty argued Friday that a judge should dismiss a lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the Robb Elementary School attack in Uvalde, Texas, saying the contents of the war game...
History surrounds New York’s The Armory Foundation, where Track & Field is the vessel for personal development
AM New York Metro
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August 3, 2025
In New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood, The Armory has withstood the test of time. The wartime structure, once home to the New York State militia, is now a track and field cathedral, where youth and seniors alike come to learn and...
Yale Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital to end medication part of gender-affirming care for children
NBC Connecticut
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July 24, 2025
Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital are eliminating the medication treatment component of the gender-affirming program for patients under age 19. The announcement comes as Connecticut Children's said it is winding down its gender care...
3 Key Things for LGBTQ+ Prospective Parents to Know
Bay Windows - Massachusetts
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Starting a family is always a momentous decision. Doing so as an LGBTQ+ person often means additional complexities and considerations, especially at a time when our rights and identities are under attack. For those considering parenthood or newly...
Yale New Haven Health to cut youth gender-affirming care services
The Connecticut Mirror
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July 24, 2025
Support trusted journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. Yale New Haven Health will no longer provide medication treatment as part of its gender-affirming care services for patients 19 and under, a spokesperson...
YNHH Ends Gender-Affirming Care For Youth
New Haven Independent - Connecticut
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July 24, 2025
Laura Glesby Photo Pride Center's Laura Boccadoro (pictured in file photo with mom Karen): Decision "not a representation of who New Haven is." They didn’t want to do it, but they felt they had no choice. That’s the upshot of a letter sent to...
Southern Connecticut Students Hold Archeological Dig in Guilford for 7th Year
The Connecticut Examiner
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July 24, 2025
“Oh, look at this cutie!” exclaimed archeologist Bill Farley as a graduate student handed him an artifact no bigger than the head of a pin. The artifact had just been sifted from soil in the north yard of the Henry Whitfield State Museum. The...