Hi all,
I’m moving to northern Connecticut (near the boarder of Springfield, MA) and needing to switch healthcare providers. I am nonbinary/transmasc, on hrt for 11+ years. As a trans person, I am looking for recommendations for educated, knowledgeable, and respectful healthcare providers/clinics.
I am also ADHD and autistic with mental health struggles so I am also in search of a psychiatrist and therapist knowledgeable in all of the above identities.

Aside from healthcare, where can I find welcoming spaces and like minded people/communities?! I am moving from 2 hours away and only know my partner as of now.

Thank you!

Connecticut’s electorate is approaching the midterm elections with a deep distrust of the federal government, a broader sense their opinions are not valued by officials, and partisan differences over taxation and spending priorities in a state with high costs, unmet needs and wealth disparities.

A new Wesleyan SurveyLab CT poll takes a measure of voter attitudes towards their government, sources of news and the tensions inherent in a desire for both lower taxes and selected spending increases in an era of state budget surpluses.

Evidence of disaffection was highest among voters who called themselves working class, as well as Republicans, whose party holds fewer than one third of the seats in the General Assembly and no statewide or congressional offices in Connecticut.

Has anyone stopped watching the NHL after the Whalers left?
Or you picked another team or stick with the Carolina hurricanes since they took them away from us.
I kinda wanna get back into hockey again

This is not my website. I did not write this. If you don’t like my posts, then feel free to block me or filter the flair.

CT is one of the most dependent states in the country. I am not happy about it, and I am trying to wean myself off it. Until then, apparently, I will need to pay more, stay colder, and fund (indirectly) Russia's war in Ukraine. For better or worse, CT has a big deal for Millstone nuclear power. Can we/should we have a strategy for significantly reducing our dependence on heating oil? I know that heat pumps and solar both can help, but the state does not seem serious about promoting either. What about natural gas?

I think it was Malloy who first proposed it, that the property tax would exempt the first $20,000 of your car's value (which meant most cars would be entirely exempt). Not sure if that was per vehicle or limited to per taxpayer. I remember a few years ago (when Lamont was governor) seeing something from the local government saying someting about a new Connecticut law that effected how they can tax vehicles so the town had to raise the mill rate to compensate.

For nearly two decades, Osborn’s residents and their families have decried the prison’s conditions.

Hi! I'm looking for recommendations for a body shop. I have a 2010 prius with lowish miles that runs great, but I'm getting water intrusion. I think it's the weather stripping on top and I would like that replaced. Any recommendations?

Thanks for your help. 😄

If there's a housing shortage and affordablity crisis in Connecticut, why does the state make it so expensive to sell a house? With all the taxes, fees and miscellaneous costs I now see why people aren't selling.

Manchester is grappling with the decision on whether or not to tackle regulating the public use of cannabis after Director Leslie Frey brought the issue to the table when she received complaints about cannabis being used near playgrounds at Charter Oak Park. Because Manchester has a population of over 50,000 people, state law says the town must allow smoking somewhere in public if it wants to regulate public consumption.

For a bit more context, when CT passed the law allowing cannabis (SB 1201), they added a provision limiting regulation in an attempt to protect folks who don't have access to private outdoor space.

This is in CGS 7-148 - here%20Regulate%2C%20on%20any). In summary, any municipality with >50k residents (approx 20 towns/cities) are specifically not allowed to regulate smoking (cannabis OR tobacco) on publicly owned land unless they also designate a place within the municipality where it's specifically allowed.

This has a few implications - one, towns can't ban smoking in public parks anymore unless they designate a zone, and many towns' bans that existed prior are now technically illegal. Two, while the state has banned smoking in state-owned parks, larger municipalities don't have that right without creating a "zone," a burden not felt by the state.

In Manchester, trying to find a space to designate has thrown a wrench in the rarely-smooth local legislative process and (for now) both cannabis and tobacco are legal in Manchester parks.

Has anyone able to get a job in mid - senior level using LinkedIn? I have been told only reference works.

Guess I can’t watch UCONn tonight. Big10 plus Pay per view comes up with page not
Found when subscribing.

Greetings! My employer provides health insurance for me but not my wife and 2 kids. They have a plan through Access Health. Our 2026 reported income was just above the threshold for the kids to qualify for Husky B, Band 2. Instead, we get nearly the maximum advance tax credit possible for a family of 4 on the Anthem silver plan. This has also been the case for the past few years.

We just got the renewal notice in the mail and the state must have increased the income threshold, because it says that with our current reported income, the kids will be eligible for Husky B, Band 2 starting in 2027. My first question is: how is the coverage? Do all Yale New Haven Health affiliated offices participate? How does it compare to a silver plan with copays?

As far as I know currently, our 2027 income will be the same as what we reported for 2026. Sometimes I get a mid-year raise. Sometimes I don't. Some years I get a Christmas bonus, some years I don't. My wife is a stay-at-home-mom but has the potential to work here and there if the opportunity presents. To the best of my knowledge, my income for next year will be my current base salary only. In past years, if we earned more than what I reported to Access Health during enrollment, it wasn't a problem since it was all reconciled at tax time and I would just pay back whatever excess tax credit I received in advance (usually only a few hundred dollars).

My second question is this: if we take Husky B, Band 2 for the kids, my wife would be the only one still on the Anthem plan, but the advanced tax credit basically disappears. What happens if our final income of 2027 is higher than what we estimated for enrollment and it ends up exceeding the threshold for Husky B, Band 2? How would the payback be calculated? If the correct income was given from the start, we wouldn't have been eligible and we would have just continued with Anthem and the large monthly tax credit that we have now.

I have asked this question to my tax preparer, an Access Health phone representative, and an Access Health broker/ advocate and they have all said that they have yet to encounter such a scenario. I obviously do not want a surprise bill at the end of the year.

Thank you!

• The Trump regime’s research cuts delayed a promising treatment for a deadly childhood brain cancer by at least a year, according to CNBC
• Connecticut has moved dozens of seriously ill children off the waitlist for a Medicaid program that pays for their care at home
• Lawmakers reviewed the program’s renewal Tuesday, the result of years of work that began with a Guilford family

I live under an hour from each one, which do you think will be more fun? Especially since Halloween is on a Saturday this year…

Hello! Reposting my request to find a traveling tarot card reader for a party on Halloween on the CT Shoreline.

Thanks!

On December 17, 2025, Ray and Barbara Dalio announced a $75 million commitment to provide $250 to approximately 300,000 Connecticut children through Trump Accounts. As of October 20, 2026, how much of that money has actually been transferred into children's accounts, how many children have received it, and when will the remaining eligible children receive their contributions?

Fazio has used questionable people in the past to pump him up in ads. I just checked the last actor he used, and ..."Alicia is Alicia Teitelbaum, a Stamford Democrat who was one of the few donors to Republican candidate Jadon MacCormack, Teitelbaum and her husband each contributed to $50.00 to MacCormack, the endorsed Republican candidate in the 50th House District whose hateful anti-LGBT, antisemitic and anti-Catholic social media posts led the Brooklyn Republican to a landslide defeat in an August primary."