Tom Dudchik and the Capitol Report team discuss this week's hot topics in Connecticut politics:

- Judge approves date for new Democratic primary election in the Bridgeport mayor's race - Gov. Ned Lamont (D-Conn.) appoints a new Department of Economic and Community Development commissioner - Lamont and his confidence in growing Connecticut's business community - Connecticut Department of Children and Families Commissioner Vannessa Dorantes highlights National Adoption Month - Republican leaders push back on Lamont's proposed 2035 EV mandate - Axios: One-third of U.S. newspapers as of 2005 will be gone by 2024

Israel resumed fighting in Gaza minutes after a temporary cease-fire deal ended, and accused Hamas of having violated the truce.

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The New Haven Adult Education Center has been closed since it flooded last month, but school leaders are hopeful it will reopen by early 2024.

It was a Sunday night full of music, food, and activities, all to honor the life of 15-year-old Elijah Gomez of Hamden, also known to loved ones as “Eli”.   

Two men were found shot after a rollover crash in Waterbury, according to police.

Two vehicles were hit by gunfire early Sunday morning in New London, according to police.

A woman was found shot to death inside an apartment in New Britain on Friday.

NAACP celebrates work done to help the incarcerated

Basketball games raises money for fallen Hartford officer's memorial fund

Hamden gun range could become healing garden

Bump in the road for Lamont's 2035 EV plan

Hanukkah will be celebrated this year from Dec. 7 through Dec. 15, but will the holiday be subdued due to the Israel-Hamas war? Dennis House talks to Rabbi Shaya Gopin about the “Fire on ICE” event, hosted by Chabad of Greater Hartford and will be held on Sunday, Dec. 10, in the West Hartford Town Hall parking lot.