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Monroe Town Hall Offices at 7 Fan Hill Road in Monroe, Conn. on Monday May 13, 2013. Monroe Town Hall Offices at 7 Fan Hill Road in Monroe, Conn. on Monday May 13, 2013. Photo: Cathy Zuraw / Cathy Zuraw Photo: Cathy Zuraw / Cathy Zuraw Monroe Town Hall Offices at 7 Fan Hill Road in Monroe, Conn. on Monday May 13, 2013. Monroe Town Hall Offices at 7 Fan Hill Road in Monroe, Conn. on Monday May 13, 2013. Photo: Cathy Zuraw / Cathy Zuraw Monroe readying for state phase 1 reopening, summer programming MONROE — With phase 1 of the state’s reopening and Memorial Day weekend approaching, town leaders are assisting businesses and working to finalize recreational offerings for residents. The state’s initial reopening comes as Monroe’s confirmed cases of coronavirus reached 100, according to the state Department of Public Health. First Selectman Ken Kellogg said while ongoing increases are to be expected, the town’s case rate — based upon population — ranks 89 out of 169 municipalities. Kellogg ...

The open-source project behind Rust has detailed the programming language's milestones over the past five years since releasing Rust version 1.0.  Rust was created at Mozilla and the project boasts that today, "Apple, Amazon, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft [are] choosing to use Rust for its performance, reliability, and productivity in their projects." "Rust is a general-purpose programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. Rust can be built to run anywhere in the stack, whether as the kernel for your operating system or your next web app," the project says in a blogpost detailing milestones since 2015. Mozilla developers were using pre-1.0 Rust in 2014 to build its new Servo browser rendering engine for Firefox. A major goal was to eradicate memory-related security bugs in Firefox's Gecko rendering engine, many of which were due to C++'s "unsafe memory model".  Then last year, Microsoft started ex...

The TAKE with Rick Klein President Donald Trump is making clear that he's ready and eager to move on from COVID-19 as a political storyline. His allies in Congress and his campaign apparatus are helping him get there. Whether they manage to get the country there as well looms as one of the bigger 2020 questions of the moment. The Senate is in session this week with no plans to work on an additional batch of pandemic relief. Republican senators are focusing on approving judges among other Trump appointments, while several committees dig in for investigations of Obama-Biden administration moves that Trump himself has been demanding. The president has been unapologetic in defending his firing of the State Department inspector general, and few Republicans have raised serious concerns about it. His campaign, meanwhile, is engaged in a hodgepodge of attacks -- many of them vicious and unfounded -- on former Vice President Joe Biden. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with his...