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    David Collins
    Wednesday, April 24, 2024

    DAY NEWSROOM: Day Staff Columnist

    David Collins

    Day Staff Columnist
    d.collins@theday.com

    Phone: (860) 701-4370

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    By David Collins

    Work has begun on a new $15 million exhibit space that is tentatively scheduled to open in the spring of 2025.
    Connecticut Republicans, watching the head of their party sit through a serious criminal trial, might want to consider what it could be like to have a felon at the head of their ticket.
    The General Assembly last year widened the number of municipalities that can use a receivership law to address blighted properties. New London should use it to address the rubble that remains of the First Congregational Church and other blighted properties.
    The Merrill House building on Water Street is being deeded to the organization that has been running a writer-in-residence program in the late poet’s apartment, since he died in 1995.
    Noankers might be welcoming the kind of explosive growth that has engulfed Mystic, if they allow a big new restaurant with a liquor license on the former Ford’s Lobster site.
    A challenger for Sen. Heather Somers, in her re-election bid for the 18th District, has yet to emerge.
    Connecticut Republicans don’t even want a study council to look at a transition to sooner electric vehicle mandates.
    Lawsuit settlements are bringing changes this summer to the way houses are bought and sold.
    Proposed legislation that would create a study on ways to grow Mystic tourism is at least acknowledgment in Hartford of how important the tourism in this region is to the state’s economy.
    Lawmakers are considering a bill that would require the effects of power-hungry data centers on electric rates and the stability of the power grid be studied.