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The state’s application for federal funding for a multistate pilot program pledges taxpayer money, lays out how a mileage tax would work, demonstrates how tracking devices would transmit driving data to taxing authorities and offers possible per-mile fees.

“While Democrat lawmakers and the governor’s office have tried to downplay their efforts to implement a proposed mileage tax, the state’s application shows that this is something they are clearly very serious about, and the administration is willing to spend taxpayer dollars to make it happen,” Fasano said.

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Last month, the White House released an estimate that stated Connecticut would be eligible for $9 million over two years in emergency funding under Obama’s budget proposal of $1.1 billion to “expand access to treatment for opioid use disorders.”

“This legislation is barely a symbolic step,” Blumenthal said.

[...] we commit resources, our words will be a glass half empty.

Yet local health advocates say that the filled part of that glass adds momentum to a growing shift to treat heroin addiction as a disease as opposed to just a moral and legal failing.

With increased authority to

Badaracco, 80, was sentenced in 2013 to seven years in prison, but in April was granted early release because parole officials believed he had shown remorse, behaved well in prison and was unlikely to commit another crime.

[...] Department of Corrections Spokeswoman Karen Martucci said Badaracco, a former Sherman resident, has moved to the Renaissance East, a 32-bed work release facility, where he will remain at least until Oct.

Police make quick arrest in Stratford bank robbery

STRATFORD - Police made a quick apprehension Wednesday of an alleged bank robber, who was located near the train station.

A 10-year old boy was rescued midday Sunday at Squantz Pond State Park in New Fairfield, officials said.

Lifeguards were able to pull the boy from the swimming area, said First Selectman Susan Chapman.

The boy’s parents declined to have him brought to the hospital, Chapman said. She said she’s thankful he’s OK.

NORWALK — A city man was arrested Saturday for advocating violence against police by posting threatening messages on social media, police said Sunday.

The posts indicated that Vanzuuk believed the shooter in Dallas, who killed five police officers during a downtown rampage last week, was a hero and called for more police officers to be killed, Blake said.

State Senate President Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, commended the university for taking back the pay hikes at a time when the school is dealing with a $40 million deficit and a roughly 30 percent tuition hike for students.

“At a time when hundreds of people are losing their jobs in the executive and judicial branches and budget cuts system-wide are severely hurting government services for the needy, to give well-paid senior staff members at UConn big raises defies logic,” House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, said in an earlier interview.

Police said officers responded to a complaint by a passing motorist of a fight between two individuals near the school, which is located near the intersection of Routes 133 and 25 in Brookfield Center.

A section of Ledges Road is closed in Ridgefield because of downed wires and a reported brush fire on both sides of the road.

Two engines and a tanker responded to the scene, according to the fire department.

Many parked their cars at nearby parking lots or on side streets on Sunday and walked to the beach along Route 37.

First Selectman Susan Chapman has advocated for the state to create a policy restricting walk-ins for two years.