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CTDOT ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF NEW ONLINE HUB FOR TRANSPORTATION DATA

Nov 20, 2021 Stephen Krauchick

Commissioner Joseph Giulietti announced that the Connecticut Department of Transportation has launched Open Data Hub, a new one-stop-shop for the public to access transportation data. The Hub allows the public to access and download timely location-based data and perform analysis through easy-to-use online tools, applications, and dashboards. As a live platform with geospatial data, the Hub allows users to access official CTDOT data, such as traffic volumes, crashes, and roadway characteristics and classifications. Additional authoritative datasets and applications are in development and will come online as they are available. “The Open Data Hub is about empowering the public with information,” said Commissioner Joseph Giulietti. “By putting data at the fingertips of the people we serve, we are transforming the way the CTDOT…

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Teacher and Moms Of Fairfield Come Through!

Nov 19, 2021 Stephen Krauchick

How about some likes for Mary Droesch Kennedy and the Moms Of Fairfield page on Facebook for coming through for Geraldine Johnson School in Bridgeport? Mary wrote to Moms of Fairfield "Hi everyone- I teach English in Bridgeport and my seventh graders are currently supposed to be reading Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan. The books never came in, and the students are struggling to read the book on the pdf on their computers. I made an Amazon wish list for a class set- if anyone would like to purchase one the kids would really appreciate it!" Within a week the class got their wish. Way to go everyone!

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BLUMENTHAL STATEMENT ON STATE AGs INVESTIGATION INTO INSTAGRAM’S IMPACTS ON CHILDREN & TEENS

Nov 19, 2021 Stephen Krauchick

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chair of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security, released the following statement in response to an investigation into Instagram’s impacts on young people announced today by a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general: “Combined with our Congressional scrutiny, this investigation will shine a bright light on Instagram’s profiting from harm to kids. Facebook can no longer hide or conceal facts that parents need and deserve to know. Mark Zuckerberg must make a choice: either Facebook comes clean on its own, or this bipartisan group of state attorneys general will show the world even more ugly truths.” “Facebook must release its full research, give access to…

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THIEVES TARGET SCHOOL BUS FLEET CATALYTIC CONVERTERS

Nov 18, 2021 Stephen Krauchick

On Thursday morning, November 18, the Trumbull Police were called to investigate anovernight theft of catalytic converters from an entire fleet of student transportationvehicles, at 25 Oakview Drive, forcing the Cooperative Educational Service (CES) School to be closed. Police learned that thieves stole catalytic converters from twenty-eight (28) school owned vehicles, where each of these vehicles had two (2) catalytic converters cut off from them with a reported loss of over $75,000. The Trumbull Police have noticed a drastic increase in the theft of catalytic converterswhich is not only on the rise in Connecticut, but has become a serious problemnationwide. Thieves are targeting business parking lots during the overnight hourswhere many fleet vehicles, trucks, vans, and busses are parked. Thieves…

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BLUMENTHAL URGES FTC INVESTIGATION REGARDING HIGH GAS PRICES

Nov 18, 2021 Stephen Krauchick

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) during a confirmation hearing for Alvaro Bedoya to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, urged the FTC to conduct a vigorous and prompt investigation into skyrocketing gas prices, as requested earlier today by President Joe Biden.  Senator Blumenthal is chair of the Consumer Protection Subcommittee with oversight of the FTC. “This investigation is overdue, absolutely necessary, should be pursued vigorously and promptly. The present monopolistic practices of these companies need to be exposed for what they are so consumers understand why prices are rising. And we need to call attention as well to the monopolistic prices of OPEC and the producers of gasoline,” said Blumenthal. “There's no reason that consumers should be left in the dark…

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