HARTFORD, August 30 – “Magnets are dangerous for young children, not only because they could lodge in a child’s throat or nasal passages, but if two or more magnets are swallowed, they can attract each other and cause intestinal perforations or blockages which can be fatal,” Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. said today...
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that the Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) — less than a week after his request — has agreed to investigate the Connecticut Water Company’s (CWC) possible plans to reduce its workforce mere weeks after it was permitted to raise rates to fund higher staffing levels. “I commend the...
Those of us who were forced to start collecting Social Security benefits at 62- the earliest year – still have an opportunity to bump up our benefits to a much higher level. There is a little known loophole in the Social Security regulations that permit people to pay back their benefits and start all...
Mindfulness is an ancient technology that has relevance to today’s problem of chronic stress overload. Part of the reason we are chronically stressed is because there is a mismatch between the environments our stress systems evolved within and the challenges of contemporary life (see my previous entry on “Stress is Crucial, So Is Learning...
