Connecticut just passed H.B. 5408, An Act Concerning The Purchase Of Print And Digital Advertising By The State, which requires each state agency of the executive branch of the state government to procure a certain amount of print or digital advertising with commercial or nonprofit news publishers whose principal place of business is in Connecticut for at least 50% of the total annual value of the agency's contracts for such advertising.
Christian Barrios, 32, was pictured in a black hoodie, smothered in grime and brush, staring at the floor in shame in the back of police cruiser as a cop propped him up following his Saturday arrest....