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  • April 08, 2023 — by Cat Zakrzewski
    When Sen. Chris Murphy watched the video "A.I. Dilemma," he saw a familiar face. Tristan Harris, a tech ethicist well-known among lawmakers for ringing the alarm about the harmful effects of social networks, was now arguing that artificial intelligence represents a potentially catastrophic advance - riskier perhaps to human survival than... Read More
  • April 07, 2023 — by Paul Doyle
    The state's Congressional delegation will introduce a resolution to honor the national champion UConn men's basketball team.  U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy along with U.S. Reps. Joe Courtney, Rosa DeLauro, John B. Larson, Jim Himes, and Jahana Hayes announced the plan for the resolution Friday. The Huskies... Read More
  • April 06, 2023 — by Molly Ingram
    Oxford Performance Materials in South Windsor has sent more than 150 3D-printed surgical implants to hospitals in Ukraine since September 2022. The company has partnered with Orthopedic Help for Ukraine to provide the parts pro-bono to victims of Russian violence. U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) praised Oxford Performance Materials for... Read More
  • April 05, 2023 — by Michael Gagne
    MERIDEN - A steady procession of customers made their way through the line and to the counter at V. Czapiga & Son early Wednesday afternoon. Customers arrived either empty-handed or with empty reusable grocery bags and left with armloads of fresh smoked kielbasa, loaves of rye bread, and bottles of horseradish. Nearby, horns honked... Read More
  • April 05, 2023 — by Lisa Hagen
    As Connecticut legislators and the Federal Trade Commission both consider limiting non-compete clauses, workers are sharing their stories about these agreements, which can establish restrictions on where and when they can take a new job within their same field. One 32-year-old hair stylist who has worked in Greenwich for 12 years was required to... Read More
  • April 02, 2023 — by EMILY MAE CZACHOR
    In the wake of another deadly school shooting, Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut who is at the forefront of gun control legislation in Congress, has again called for action from federal lawmakers that could help reduce the risks of future tragedies involving assault weapons. While Murphy acknowledged during an... Read More
  • April 02, 2023 — by STEPHEN NEUKAM
    Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday conceded that a federal ban on assault rifles is unlikely because of a lack of congressional support but pushed for lawmakers to consider a bill that would require training before purchasing such a weapon. "There's not the votes to do that," Murphy said of an assault weapon ban on CBS's... Read More
  • March 31, 2023 — by Hugh McQuaid
    A bipartisan package of gun control reforms passed last year by Congress has already prevented more than 100 troubled young people from buying weapons and allowed the seizure of hundreds of firearms from gun traffickers, Connecticut's U.S. senators said Friday. When it was signed into law last June, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act represented... Read More
  • March 31, 2023 — by John Craven
    Despite this week's school shooting in Nashville, Sen. Chris Murphy said Friday that a new national gun law is saving lives – and will prevent future mass shootings.   Murphy brokered the historic deal with Republicans after last year's shooting that killed 21 people at a school in Uvalde, Texas. The Safer Communities... Read More
  • March 30, 2023 — by Michael Walsh
    WEST HARTFORD - A Starbucks employee who helped unionize her former shop in Connecticut traveled to Washington on Wednesday to hear the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions question Howard Schultz, the former chief executive officer of coffee chain. Jordie Adams, who now works at a non-unionized Starbucks in western... Read More
  • March 30, 2023 — by Alex Putterman
    The question of whether international athletes at UConn and elsewhere should profit from their name, image and likeness as their American teammates do has officially reached the highest levels of U.S. government. At a hearing of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee this week, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., asked Homeland Security... Read More
  • March 29, 2023 — by Lisa Hagen
    As Jordie Adams and Salwa Mogaddedi listened to former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testify before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday about the company's labor practices, they recognized parallels to their own experience helping to organize a union at their store in Vernon. Before the election to unionize last July in Connecticut, they said, management... Read More
  • March 29, 2023 — by Nick Miroff
    The record number of Americans dying of fentanyl overdoses is now the “single greatest challenge we face as a country,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told a Senate panel Wednesday. The statement appeared to be the first time Mayorkas or any other Cabinet-level member of the Biden administration has... Read More
  • March 28, 2023 — by Anand Giridharadas
    Yesterday came another barbaric American moment of a kind we are too used to: a school shooting in Nashville, Tennessee, that left six dead, including three children. As the country grieves once again, and while some who elevate the interests of gun companies over kids issue phony "thoughts and prayers," I wanted to share below excerpts from my... Read More
  • March 27, 2023 — by Susan Dunne
    At a time when many states dispute whether accurate history should be taught in schools, Connecticut Historical Society is celebrating $1 million in federal funding to digitize its documents dating back to the colonial and Revolutionary War era. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., made the importance of accurate historical records... Read More
  • March 23, 2023 — by Lau Guzmán
    U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy joined a bipartisan delegation of U.S. lawmakers that met with Mexican president Andrés Miguel López Obrador over the weekend. Even though there have been many disagreements between López Obrador and the United States, Murphy said the two countries met to discuss issues like... Read More
  • March 22, 2023 — by Brian Zahn
    To better prevent gun violence, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal believes knowledge is an important tool. Blumenthal spoke at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences to announce that, with Sen. Chris Murphy, he procured $1 million in congressionally directed spending to support data analytics... Read More
  • March 22, 2023 — by Alex Putterman
    Connecticut's two U.S. senators are pushing for tweaks to federal law that would allow international college athletes - including some of UConn's top men's and women's basketball players - to profit off their name, image and likeness the way other athletes currently do. Currently, international students typically refrain from... Read More
  • March 22, 2023 — by Lisa Hagen
    Connecticut’s senators are pushing new legislation to create a permanent office within the U.S. Department of Justice to focus on a “coordinated government response" to gun violence prevention and help implement the bipartisan gun safety bill passed by Congress last year. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., and Rep. Maxwell... Read More
  • March 16, 2023 — by Katherine Tully-McManus and Marianne LeVine
    What's happening: NCAA President Charlie Baker met with one of the loudest critics of the organization on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Baker to the basket: Baker, who just started on the job on March 1, met with Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), making clear his investment in open lines of communication with lawmakers frustrated by the... Read More

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