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• 11/20/2019 Governor Lamont Directs State Flags to Half-Staff in Honor of State Representative Linda Orange

  Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he is directing the flag of the State of Connecticut to fly at half-staff in honor of State Representative Linda Orange (D-Colchester, Lebanon, Windham, Mansfield), who passed away today.

• 11/19/2019 Governor Lamont Statement on House Democrats’ Transportation Proposal

  Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement regarding the transportation proposal announced today by the House Democratic caucus.

• 11/14/2019 Governor Lamont Statement on Senate Republican Transportation Proposal

  Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement regarding the transportation proposal announced today by the Senate Republican caucus.

• 11/13/2019 Governor Lamont Statement on Bradley Being Named the Fifth Best Airport in the Nation

  Governor Ned Lamont today released the following statement following the announcement made by Condé Nast Traveler, one of the nation’s leading travel publications, that Bradley International Airport has been named the fifth best airport in the United States in its 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards.

• 11/13/2019 Governor Lamont Partners With Mobile Carriers to Expand Ultra-Fast Internet Access on the New Haven Line as Part of CT2030 Transportation Plan

  Governor Ned Lamont today said that improving access to ultra-fast internet networks for commuters using Connecticut’s public transit system needs to be included in any legitimate plan that is designed to improve the state’s infrastructure, and that is why his multi-modal, ten-year CT2030 transportation plan includes partnering with the state’s major telecommunications companies to implement faster data signals along the New Haven Line – the busiest commuter rail line in the United States.

• 11/13/2019 Governor Lamont Statement in Response to Rocket Attacks Against Israel

  Governor Ned Lamont today released the following statement.

• 11/12/2019 Governor Lamont Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Allow Sandy Hook Families to Proceed With Lawsuit

  Governor Ned Lamont today released the following statement regarding the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a survivor and relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to pursue their lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used in the attacks.

• 11/8/2019 Governor Lamont Says State Will Illuminate the ‘Q Bridge’ Red, White, and Blue in Honor of Veterans Day

  Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the State of Connecticut will illuminate the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in New Haven – informally known by residents as the Q Bridge – in red, white, and blue lights on the evenings of Sunday, November 10 and Monday, November 11 in observation of Veterans Day.

• 11/8/2019 Governor Lamont Statement on the Resignation of State Representative Linda Orange

  Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement regarding State Representative Linda Orange (D-Colchester, Lebanon, Windham, Mansfield), who today announced her intention to resign her seat in the General Assembly effective February 1, 2020 to focus her attention on her health.

• 11/7/2019 Governor Lamont Presents CT2030: A Realistic, Fiscally Responsible Plan to Transform Connecticut’s Transportation System

  CT2030 is Governor Lamont’s ten-year vision to create a multi-modal, congestion-reduced Connecticut through smart enhancement projects in the state’s highways, trains, buses, airports, and ports.

• 11/6/2019 Governor Lamont Announces Veterans Affairs Commissioner Saadi Taking Six-Month, Quasi-Leave While on Active Duty

  Governor Ned Lamont today announced that Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Commissioner Thomas J. Saadi will be taking a six-month, quasi-leave of absence beginning Friday, November 15 while on active duty with the U.S. Army.

• 11/4/2019 Governor Lamont Receives Final Action Plan From PFAS Task Force

  Governor Ned Lamont today announced that the Connecticut Interagency PFAS Task Force, the group he created this summer and tasked with making recommendations for him to consider that address the potential harmful effects of a widely-used class of chemicals known as PFAS, has transmitted to his office its final action plan.

• 11/1/2019 Governor Lamont Announces Woodland Regional High School Educator Named Connecticut’s 2020 Teacher of the Year

  Governor Ned Lamont and Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona today announced that Meghan Hatch-Geary, an English teacher from Regional School District 16’s Woodland Regional High School in Beacon Falls, has been selected as Connecticut’s 2020 Teacher of the Year, the state’s highest recognition honoring extraordinary teachers.

• 11/1/2019 Governor Lamont Statement on the Passing of Supreme Court Justice Robert I. Berdon

  Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement regarding the Honorable Robert I. Berdon, retired Justice of the State Supreme Court, who passed away on Thursday, October 31.

• 11/1/2019 Governor Lamont Announces Launch of Loan Program Providing Supplementary Assistance to Homeowners with Crumbling Foundations

  Governor Ned Lamont today announced that a new loan program administered by the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) assisting homeowners with the associated costs of replacing their pyrrhotite-damaged foundations has launched and can now be obtained through participating financial institutions.