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  • Opinion: Looming health care crisis can be avoided by restoring funds to community health centers

    Mollie Melbourne is acting chief executive officer of the Community Health Center Association of Connecticut, which is based in Cheshire and represents the state’s Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs). There is a brewing health care crisis in Connecticut, and it involves the state’s poorest and most vulnerable population of people. The good news is there…

  • State agencies asked to prepare cuts

    HARTFORD, Conn. – Already forced to find $200.6 million in savings in their 2016 budgets, state agencies are now being directed to cut 5 percent from their 2017 budgets — part of what state officials say is an annual exercise in responsible budgeting. Office of Policy and Management Deputy Undersecretary Gian-Carl Casa said the cuts…