Author: Jake Dressler
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Waterbury Ranks No. 1 for Worst Drivers in America
Connecticut just took a title nobody wants. In ConsumerAffairs’ 2026 analysis of federal crash data, Waterbury ranked as the single most dangerous driving city in the United States — first out of 338 cities with populations above 100,000. It is the only city in the entire Northeast to appear anywhere in the 45 worst-ranked. The…
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Massachusetts Ranked Best State for DriverS
SmartAsset just published its 2026 ranking of the best and worst states for drivers, and Massachusetts came out first in the country. Ahead of Minnesota. Ahead of New Jersey. Ahead of the forty-six other states that don’t feature the Storrow Drive merge. Connecticut placed sixth. If you’ve driven the Pike at rush hour or tried…
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Did Massachusetts Just Legalize Abortion Up to Birth? What the Statute Actually Says
On August 10, 2026, Governor Healey signed An Act Prioritizing Patient Access to Care (H.5595, 194th Gen. Court). Most coverage has described it in terms of what it means — “removing the 24-week ban,” “expanding access throughout pregnancy,” “abortion until birth,” depending on who’s talking. Very little of it has quoted the statute. The bill…
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Connecticut’s Supreme Court Sanctions Its First Lawyer Over AI-Fabricated Citations
Connecticut’s highest court just handed down its first punishment for AI-generated fiction in a legal brief — and the story is more unsettling than it sounds. On July 31, 2026, the Connecticut Supreme Court punished a lawyer for filing court papers that cited cases which had never been decided, by judges who had never heard…
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CT Adopts Duty-to-Warn Rule After Branford Dentist Killed His 21-Year-Old Ex-Girlfriend
Caroline Ashworth was about eighteen when she met Michael Mollow. He was about fifty-seven. They started seeing each other in the winter of 2019, and for the next three years he paid her rent until he stopped paying it, controlled where she went and who she talked to, and cut off her phone service when…
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Tong Stops Trump From Cutting Parkland-Era School Safety Funds
In the wake of devastating school shootings, members of Congress from both parties came together and appropriated roughly $1 billion to permanently place 14,000 mental health professionals in the schools that need them most — low-income districts and rural communities. By the numbers, it worked. In the first year, the programs delivered mental and behavioral…
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Connecticut Drivers Rear-End Someone Every 17 Minutes
Somewhere in Connecticut, roughly every 17 minutes, one car drives into the back of another. That’s not a dramatization. It’s what the numbers say. Between January 2023 and the middle of 2026, the state logged 110,407 rear-end crashes — about 86 a day, one every 17 minutes around the clock, holidays included. Out of every…
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Tong Settles With 23andMe for $18 Million and Connecticut Takes $887,729. Here’s How Bankruptcy Turned a $100 Billion Demand Into Pennies
If you’ve read the headline — “Attorney General Tong leads a 42-state settlement over the 23andMe genetic data breach” — you already know the soundbite. What the soundbite hides is the real story, and it’s a story about bankruptcy law, not privacy law. Forty-two states filed claims asserting at least $100 billion in damages. They…
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Breathing the Air in Connecticut and Massachusetts on July 18 Was Like Smoking 1 to 2 Cigarettes, Berkeley Research Suggests
If you stepped outside in Connecticut or Massachusetts this weekend and thought the sky looked a little off — that hazy, washed-out, someone-lit-a-campfire-two-towns-over look — you weren’t imagining it. Smoke from the wildfires burning up in Canada rolled back down into New England, and the air we were all casually breathing wasn’t as free as…
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Connecticut Law Grants Sweeping Cancellation Rights, Including Click to Cancel, Renewal Reminders, and No Forced Mail-In Cancellations
If you have ever tried to cancel a gym membership and found yourself trapped in a phone tree, put on hold, transferred to a “retention specialist,” and finally told you had to mail a written request to some address in another state, you already understand the problem Connecticut just fixed. As of July 1, 2026,…
