Ned Lamont

Our public safety professionals are integral to the wellbeing of each of our neighborhoods, and it is imperative that we provide them with benefits that ensure we have adequately staffed forces.

To be clear, the risk to Connecticut residents is very low, although I encourage everyone to continue to keep taking sensible precautions by staying up to date on vaccines and practicing good hygiene.

As we prepare to welcome tourists visiting the region for the World Cup, I want Connecticut residents to know we are looking out for their health and safety.

This filing demonstrates our administration’s commitment to reducing costs for ratepayers.

On behalf of everyone whose unbearable weight of medical debt has been relieved, thank you to the hospitals, doctors, and other providers who have partnered with Undue Medical Debt. Your efforts have changed lives.

While the Trump administration continues to ignore patients’ plight by gutting essential medical programs, including Medicaid, FQHCs, and Planned Parenthood, tax credits and subsidies for the Exchange, Connecticut is taking an active role…

With the lack of action on gun violence prevention measures being passed by Congress, it is up to the individual states to enact laws like these.

This is a commonsense law that prioritizes public safety while respecting the rights of responsible gun owners.

Our gun violence prevention laws need to keep up with what’s going on in the world as far as it relates to emerging technologies and the development of weapons that enable criminals to easily circumvent these laws with the intention of…

This new law holds manufacturers to a basic safety standard requiring firearms not to be designed in a way that enables them to be converted into machine guns.

Teachers have one of the most important jobs in our society, helping students develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to succeed.

Connecticut will not stand by as the Trump administration uses hunger as a weapon against working families, veterans, and our most vulnerable.

By January, I expect serious, actionable recommendations on my desk.

I’ve created this commission to do thorough research, look at other states’ approaches, and come up with big ideas to ensure each Connecticut school is adequately funded and maximizing results for their students.

We need a full, top-to-bottom review of how the state funds its public schools and make the adjustments necessary to improve student outcomes and success in all schools statewide.

However, we need to do more to repair the state’s outdated education funding formulas to reflect the modern-day realities of our schools and the students they serve.

Last week, I signed into law a state budget for this upcoming fiscal year that delivers an historic increase in funding to all of Connecticut’s school districts—funding that will be used to help keep teachers in classrooms and protect the…

Enhancing these penalties by requiring a temporary license suspension for those repeatedly violating this law reinforces to all drivers the extreme caution they must take anytime they approach a school bus, and especially when the buses…

Existing laws requiring vehicles to stop for school buses are reasonable to protect the lives of children from reckless drivers.

She brings steady leadership, sound judgment, and a deep commitment to public service, and I know she is exactly the right person to help CSCU turn the page and continue focusing on what matters most: delivering opportunity and success for…

These actions will strengthen our communities, support families and businesses, and help make Connecticut more affordable and competitive.

Increasingly, social media companies are taking advantage of kids, creating apps and algorithms that decrease their attention spans and drive them to become addicted...

Medical debt is a burden carried by families in every Connecticut community, but it disproportionately affects working-class families.

On Memorial Day, we mourn and pay tribute to the heroes of the U.S. military whose lives were taken in the line of duty, and we keep in our hearts and prayers their spouses and families for the many sacrifices they have made over the…

We fear this unreasonable increase in transmission rates will needlessly burden the region’s households and businesses, impair our economic competitiveness, and undermine our efforts to deploy transmission investment that is needed to…