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 th

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 a

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

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. A

Marie Feniello, 65, a former Greenwich resident who lived on Bedford Road, is scheduled to appear in Stamford Superior Court on January 7, 2026. She faces multiple charges of animal cruelty and an additional charge of first-degree criminal trespass stemming from a separate incident in March 2025. The core of the case dates back to November 2024, when Greenwich Police visited Feniello's Bedford Road home. What they found was a scene of horrific neglect: two Black Labs, Augie