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Food deserts persist as Congress seeks to help

WASHINGTON — By the time Tracie Killar was 17, she said much of the food she ate contained too much sugar and there were health consequences from it. Killar, who has lived in upstate New York for more than 50 years, grew up in Albany’s South End area, a food desert where most of her meals were highly processed and unhealthy.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand visited the cafe last month, a few weeks after introducing legislation in Congress that aims to eliminate food deserts by allocating federal fu
CT Examiner •

Connecticut’s Young Democratic Delegates Weigh in on DNC

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Corey Frate, one of Connecticut’s young delegates at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, did a complete 180 when he went to vote in the 2016 presidential election.

Frate, 27, comes from a long line of Republicans in the historically conservative town of Darien. He had registered as a Republican right out of high school. But in 2016, he found himself questioning his place in the party.
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