Patricia Dillon

West Nile virus alert! The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station has detected the virus in mosquitoes in New Haven and four other Connecticut towns, signaling “a major expansion of West Nile virus activity in the state,” said Dr. Philip Armstrong, medical entomologist.

With more than 600,000 lives lost across America (including over 8,000 here in Connecticut) since the start of the pandemic, we've known for some time how terrible a disease COVID-19 has become.

As of last Friday, July 16: The next distribution of ‘Pandemic EBT’ food benefits went to 57,800 schoolchildren; EBT cards were mailed out.

Busy Wednesday! Because in May the General Assembly modified the law so that future executive orders require legislative approval, yesterday we met in Hartford to do that.

The Department of Arts, Culture, and Tourism recognize that art can provide powerful experiences and conversations in advocacy for change.

Curbside pickup locations. Parents and guardians can pick up.

Over the next few days Connecticut is expected to experience extreme temperatures that have prompted heat advisories from the National Weather Service through Wednesday.

(NEW HAVEN, CT) – State Representative Pat Dillon (D-New Haven), author of Connecticut’s student athlete’s “right to know” law, hailed today’s Supreme Court ruling in NCAA v Alston, which held that the NCAA can no longer bar colleges from providing athletes with education-related benefits such as free laptops or paid post-graduate internships.