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CTNewsJunkie is a locally owned & operated news org based in Hartford, CT providing fact-based news & commentary about politics and public policy since 2005. This account is usually monitored by Publisher/Editor Doug Hardy.
Celebrating OPP’s 50th anniversary - Our Piece of the Pie has been helping youth succeed for half a century in greater Hartford.
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Big crowds reported around CT today for the "No Kings" protests — these photos are from Hartford and Guilford #ctpolitics #NoKingsDay #NoKingsProtest #NoKingsInAmerica #NoKings #NOKINGSPROTESTS #NoKingsRally
June 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Last night’s wind and rain knocked out power to 16,601 customers in Connecticut, mostly in Litchfield County. At the moment, line crews have reduced that figure to 2,675 customers without electricity. #eversource #ctutilities

findenergy.com/ct/power-out...
March 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Growing crowd of about 500+ gathered outside the state Capitol to hear leaders talk about protecting Medicaid. @JoeCourtneyCT speaking #ctpolitics
March 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Last night’s wind storm knocked out power to 15,501 out of 1,704,261 customers (0.76%) in Connecticut. Line crews have restored about 430 so far, bringing the outage down to 15,071. findenergy.com/ct/power-out... #electricity #utilities
March 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
@GovNedLamont returned from India in a sling with a broken arm from a fall & w/a new trade deal. He also says he will line-item veto 2 of the Democrats spending plans (special ed & planned parenthood) $ reiterated his commitment to maintaining the fiscal guardrails. #ctpolitics #fiscalguardrails
March 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Breezy & cold but nice to look at. #Hartford #statecapitol
February 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Remembering a great friend & colleague today - Nancy Chapman, founder of the great local news site, NancyOnNorwalk.com. She was fearless, driven, brilliant. Stubborn enough to persevere an industry in free fall. I’m grateful that her legacy will live on in Norwalk #ctpolitics
January 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Today's snowstorm knocked out power for 15,507 electricity customers at its peak. Most of those outages were in northeastern CT – in Tolland and Windham counties, according to FindEnergy.com.
December 5, 2024 at 9:26 PM
According to United Illuminating, 5,776 customers are without electricity today, most of whom are in Bridgeport. A few hundred are in North Branford. #utilities #electricity

UI's map: www.uinet.com/outages/repo...

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December 3, 2024 at 6:37 PM
7/7 I think this is the last story she appeared in – at a 2018 gubernatorial candidate forum that was conducted much like individual job interviews. ctnewsjunkie.com/2018/06/08/2...
November 21, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Hi all - I've heard good things about BlueSky so I'm happy to be here. This post above got almost 30k views on X, my best yet since becoming sole owner of the family biz. Feel free to reach out to me here or at editor@ctnewsjunkie.com with story ideas or tips.
November 18, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Analysis: The Truth About Your Electricity Bill (Aug. 8)

In April, two PURA commissioners – John Betkoski III & Michael Caron – outvoted Chair Marissa Gillett & forced Eversource customers to pay $866 million in just 10 mos. instead of 3 yrs. #ctpolitics #ctenergy #ctnewsjunkie
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November 18, 2024 at 7:27 AM