Connecticut's largest health system, Yale New Haven Health (YNHH), is facing an urgent and deepening financial crisis, driven by a surge in uncompensated care, rising labor costs, and lagging reimbursements. These financial pressures on hospital operating costs are a uniquely difficult problem in CT. CT hospitals are losing money lagging behind the national average. In a move signaling the severity of the situation and the immediate need for change, the network has initiated a major...

Amidst a flurry of fierce bidding wars and skyrocketing prices in Greenwich, local real estate brokers are pointing to a heightened level of interest from New York City residents. This phenomenon is fueled by the prospect of a Democrat Socialist Zohran Mamdani winning the mayoral race in New York. In Greenwich, this has resulted in bidding wars more intense than what was even seen during the pandemic. Said Mark Pruner, a broker in the Greenwich office of Compass: "We were having a good year...

Local democracy is under direct threat, not by some abstract national crisis, but by the very officials elected to uphold its principles. Last week, a state court delivered a damning judgment against the Democrat members of the Board of Education (BOE) - Karen Hirsh, Laura Kostin, Sophie Koven, Kathleen Stowe. The ruling concerned an illegal emergency meeting they held in October 2024, in an attempt to bypass protocol and appoint their preferred candidate to a vacant Republican seat. Despite...

Riverside School ranked first in the U.S. News 2026 rankings of the top public elementary schools in Connecticut. The survey included 500 CT elementary schools. Riverside School ranked 1 North Mianus School ranked 7 Int'l School at Dundee ranked 9 North Street School ranked 14 Old Greenwich School ranked 20 Parkway School ranked 41 Glenville School ranked 142 New Lebanon School ranked 151 Julian Curtiss School ranked 170 Cos Cob School ranked 183 Hamilton Avenue School ranked 186 Between the...

You've seen plenty of coverage criticizing the White House for demolishing the East Wing to build a $350 million ballroom. Critics have framed this action as the historical erasure of the "people's house," calling it something akin to "slashing a Rembrandt painting", in the words of Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. The opposition's rhetoric has been severe. CT Senator Chris Murphy (D) declared on MSNBC, “there’s a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing, ....It is just...