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Rep. Joe Courtney: “This isn’t really a gift. ...You’d basically have to tear the plane down to the studs and rebuild it to meet all the survivability, security and communications requirements of Air Force One. It’s a massive undertaking—and an unfunded one at that.” www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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The number of Americans buying self-defense insurance—dubbed 'murder insurance' by critics who believe it can encourage the use of deadly force—has soared in recent years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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University of Connecticut has not, as of yet, signed on to this list. Several other colleges and universities in CT -- public and private -- have.

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Friendly reminder that one quarter of negative GDP growth does not mean we're in a recession. ctmirror.org/2024/06/10/u...

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Ugh. It's happening. The economy shrank in the first quarter, at an annual rate of -0.3%. The good news: Consumption and investment remained strong. Think of this as a hard-to-interpret report due to -- all of this. Remember, this is the average of Q1, and the real concern is about Q2.

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Attention, CT foodies! My next guest in @ctmirror.org entrepreneur event series This Could Work, is Jason Sobocinski. Founder of Haven Hot Chicken, Jason has also had a hand in other tasty startups like Olmo, Black Hog Brewing, Mystic Cheese Co. and Caseus. Join us! ctmirror.org/2025/04/18/r...

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🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

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CT Mirror reporters will be covering today’s “Hands Off Higher Ed” protests at Yale and UConn. If you’re there and you’d like to get in touch, send a note to [email protected]

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The showdown with Harvard is wild. It’s not just an Ivy — it’s possibly the most recognized and revered name in higher ed in the world, truly one of this country’s most valuable exports.

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“I cry to my wife every night. There’s nothing fun about any of this." ctmirror.org/2025/04/15/c...

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I’m sooo happy about UConn!!

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Shout out to college kids taking intro macro this semester.

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Musk’s offer of free Starlink for the White House puzzled some former officials. But it immediately struck @propublica.org 's @reneedudley.bsky.social & Doris Burke as the potential Trump-era iteration of a business maneuver they’d recently spent months reporting on.

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Who lost their jobs at the FDA? The people who determine if a costly drug is ready to be a generic The people who test food and drugs for contaminants and deadly bacteria in several labs were let go The people talking to overseas drug safety regulators to get ahead of foodborne illness & deaths

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Americans earning $250,000 or more annually — the top 10% of earners — now account for nearly 50% of all U.S. spending, the highest since 1989. qz.com/trump-tariff...

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Thanks I hate it. www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-stora...

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Remembered this story from last summer. "Germany is Connecticut’s top economic partner, O’Keefe said. German companies and investors account for roughly 17% of foreign direct investment in Connecticut, and the state’s annual exports to Germany top $2 billion in value." ctmirror.org/2024/07/23/l...

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Connecticut Republican lawmakers called for the creation of an inspector general’s office to investigate unethical behavior and alleged corruption in state government, citing local news stories about alleged waste and fraud. ctmirror.org/2025/03/27/c...

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Zeldin went on to say: “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion.” ctmirror.org/2025/03/27/e...

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NEWS: ESPN announced that it is ending its Los Angeles edition of “SportsCenter” and relocating the production of that show to its headquarters in Bristol, Conn. @andrewmarchand.bsky.social has more: www.nytimes.com/athletic/623...

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"More than 40% of the CSCU system’s $611 million total reserve came from the community colleges, where tuition this fall was up 11% from two years earlier." ctmirror.org/2025/03/25/c...

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Firing 300,000 federal workers would save the US govt ~$35Bn. But it would reduce GDP by ~$119Bn that, with the ~$3Bn in unemployment claims, a net economic loss of $87Bn. "That would be an outcome that is bad for everybody." Analysis from @iata.org — yes, IATA. www.iata.org/en/publicati...

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Do data centers create jobs? The tallies are in and the conclusion is: Meh. www.wsj.com/tech/ai-data...

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Federal funding cuts have forced wildland firefighters to cancel prescribed burns, which help prevent wildfires. “We will be more vulnerable to a catastrophic fire in the future as a result,” one firefighter said.

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From WSJ: During two months that shattered records for presidential transitions, healthcare executives wrote among the largest checks. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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In light of Trump's pause on enforcing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, thought I'd see if any companies with CT connections were involved in FCPA cases. Looks like RTX Corp (2024), Gartner (2023), Alexion (2020), United Technologies (2018), GE (2010). Interesting docket: www.sec.gov/about/divisi...

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At an aerospace suppliers conference last week, one consultant joked, “Thank God we have a stable political and regulatory environment to help us through these difficult times,” to laughter. He said industry was blindsided by the tariffs on Canada and Mexico. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

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“If the product is free, you are the product.”

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To offer some context/scope… thehill.com/homenews/lgb...

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Watching the Fox broadcast of UConn v. St. John’s, and I’m pretty sure that’s Benjamin Zachs, chief operating officer of local CT Cannabis retail chain Fine Fettle.

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“Move fast and break things”

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"Trump wants to re-establish multiple policies regarding trans Americans that were in place during his first term, while seeking to cement a broader message: In his administration’s view, trans and nonbinary people don’t exist." 19thnews.org/2025/01/trum...

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I must echo for those mourning the possible loss of BookTok 💙📚, your local public library is still there and even better! Most librarians are literally trained to give you book recommendations (we call it readers' advisory and reference interview, and we even take classes on it 📚). #skybrarians 👇

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President Joe Biden said Friday that he believes the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements needed for ratification but he did not order the archivist to publish it. Without publication, the move is largely symbolic.

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