The Greenwich Police Department just posted their police blotter for the month of December 2025. They received 2,997 calls for service during the month, one of the lowest months of calls of the year. Surprisingly, for the holiday season, the number of DUIs dropped to the lowest level of the year numbering only four, but the number of motor vehicle collisions were 204, the most of any month of the year. The number of stolen vehicles and residential thefts spiked to nine and seven,...

It's nine months away from the mid-term elections and the "Pizza vs Pocketbook" debate has officially boiled over. This week, the CT GOP launched a biting digital campaign titled: "Let Them Eat Pizza" here , targeting what they call the "tone-deaf" priorities of the Lamont Administration. The tension stems from a state tourism blitz featuring new highway signs that proudly declare, "Welcome to Connecticut - the Pizza Capital of the United States." The GOP's ad suggests that while Governor...

Wondering why you are seeing so many people masking up at the grocery store again? The "Super Flu" has officially arrived, and it has hit Connecticut especially hard. Connecticut is experiencing one of the most aggressive starts to its flu season on record. In December 2025, cases in the state surged over 600% compared to the same time last year. The culprit is a specific variant which was identified as Influenza A (H3N2, Subclade K). Because this strain was identified after the current...

If mail theft hasn't made you re-think using the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), here is another: you can no longer drop a time-sensitive document into the Big Blue Box and assume it will be postmarked that day. Effective December 24, 2025, a new USPS rule officially clarified that a postmark is technically defined as the time when a piece of mail is processed at a regional facility (e.g., Stamford), not when it is dropped into a collection box. To guarantee a legal postmark on the day you send...

As of January 1, 2026, Connecticut's minimum wage has officially climbed from $16.35 to $16.94 per hour. That means Connecticut now ranks as a national outlier with the second highest statewide minimum wage in the United States, trailing only Washington state ($17.13). This latest uptick marks a significant milestone in a journey that began in May 2019, when Governor Ned Lamont (D) signed the law tying annual increases to the CT Department of Labor's Employment Cost Index. According to this...