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Connecticut officials and advocates are in the thick of a fight over it, with emissions levels and air quality hanging in the balance. ... Read full Story
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There are statistically significant improvements in student outcomes that go beyond the financial variable. ... Read full Story
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Trump’s Bizarro-like idea of meritocracy amounts to a patronage system of blatant incompetency. ... Read full Story
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Officials are discussing the purchase of Prospect Medical's Waterbury Hospital and Bristol and Day Kimball hospitals by UConn Health. ... Read full Story
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Officials say they’re turning the tide in a long-running fight against hydrilla — but to continue, the Army Corps needs additional funding. ... Read full Story
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Every school district must establish policies to ensure libraries have a process for handling challenges to books and other materials. ... Read full Story
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White House rhetoric has left Canadians a rare breed of visitors in New England, usually a hotspot vacation destination from nearby Quebec. ... Read full Story
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The Constitution Pipeline will link up with two existing pipelines that serve both CT and the wider region. ... Read full Story
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The attempt to shut down Revolution Wind shows that Trump is hell-bent on replacing renewable energy projects with price-volatile gas. ... Read full Story
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The number of overdoses reflects the challenge facing the DOC: keeping illegal drugs out of CT prisons and treating addiction within them. ... Read full Story
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The proliferation of e-bikes and e-scooters is giving motorists another thing to look out for; and for their owners, new safety rules to observe. ... Read full Story
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Connecticut residents should demand that our symbols of honor reflect the best of who we are —not the worst of what we’ve allowed. ... Read full Story
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Congressman John B. Larson relied on familiar themes, faces and places as he began a campaign unlike 13 previous runs for reelection. ... Read full Story
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State auditors wrote that some private special education schools in CT are failing to give students all the services they need. ... Read full Story
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How would CT Democrats exert what leverage they have in a Republican Congress — and what would they accept in a spending deal? ... Read full Story
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Planned Parenthood said Thursday’s ruling means that more than 1.1 million patients can’t use their Medicaid insurance at its health centers. ... Read full Story
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Connecticut's COVID cases have been rising throughout the summer, reaching levels in August not seen since February. ... Read full Story
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The confluence of Charlie Kirk’s assassination and a 9-11 anniversary inspired moments of introspection in CT about political discourse. ... Read full Story
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The CT Office of the Behavioral Health Advocate aims to help residents access behavioral health services and help providers receive payments. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 16, 2025 is:
debunk • \dee-BUNK\ • verb
To debunk something (such as a belief or theory) is to show that it is not true.
// The influencer remained enormously popular despite having the bulk of their health claims thoroughly debunked.
Examples:
“Conspiracy theorists (and those of us who argue with them have the scars to show for it) often maintain that the ones debunking the conspiracies are allied with the conspirators.” — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
To debunk something is to take the bunk out of it—that bunk being nonsense. (Bunk is short for the synonymous bunkum, which has political origins.) Debunk has been in use since at least the 1920s, and it contrasts with synonyms like disprove and rebut by suggesting that something is not merely untrue but is also a sham—a trick meant to deceive. One can simply disprove a myth, but if it is debunked, the implication is that the myth was a grossly exaggerated or foolish claim.
