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Connecticut Editor
(Updated 3:11 p.m.) Republican lawmakers unveiled their own deficit mitigation package Friday morning, which restores an $84 million cut in municipal aid, eliminates funding for the Citizens' Election Program, cuts state agency spending by $258.3 million, and restores the sales tax reduction.
The "alternative"' [...] 
Capitol Police Chief Michael Fallon, 47, died early Friday after a courageous battle with cancer.
Fallon, who served for 23 years with the Hartford Police Department before being named in Dec. 2006 as Chief of the State Capitol Police, was remembered by lawmakers Friday as the [...] 
In what was sometimes a heated discussion, municipal and state officials tried to tackle the issue of unfunded state mandates during a two-hour meeting Thursday.
But after municipal leaders spoke about all the cuts they already had made and brainstormed ways the state could offer [...] 
Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele, the man who has been Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's sidekick for the past three years formally announced his intention to seek the Republican nomination for governor Wednesday.
The announcement came Wednesday at a Connecticut Business and Industry Association meeting [...] 
A month after predicting the state will end the year $624 million in the red, state Comptroller Nancy Wyman adjusted her numbers downward Tuesday.
In her latest letter to Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, Wyman lowered the deficit by about $75 million to $549 [...] 
(Updated 4:25 p.m.) At the request of Gov. M. Jodi Rell, the Correction Department recommended closing Webster Correctional Institution in Cheshire.
The level two, minimum security prison currently houses 220 inmates and closing it could save the state $3.4 million on an annual basis, according to [...] 
The 21st World AIDS Day celebration in Hartford was part celebration, part memorial and part call-to-action.
"For many of us World AIDS Day is every day," Shawn Lang, executive director of the Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition, said Tuesday morning. And while there were victories [...] 
Sidetracked by the state budget crisis earlier this year, the now 17-member Commission on Enhancing Agency Outcomes regrouped Monday to brainstorm ways to streamline state government.
The commission created in February has only met a handful of times, but are ready to get [...] 
Unemployment insurance is a safety net for laid-off workers. But with nearly 100,000 people filing for benefits, Connecticut's unemployment trust fund went bankrupt on Oct. 13.
Over the past two months, Gov. M. Jodi Rell has sounded alarms and written Connecticut's Congressional delegation twice, asking them [...] 
Following a book signing at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford, Green Party darling Ralph Nader was asked if he would challenge U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd for his seat.
"Well, it's premature," Nader said. But in the same breath he also acknowledged the' [...] 
The Connecticut Green Party is hoping to woo Winsted native Ralph Nader into challenging U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, today, with homemade signs.
The group is expected to gather at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford Friday where Nader is scheduled to speak about his new book [...] 
(Updated 8:24 p.m.) Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell proposed cutting $337 million from the $18.64 billion 2010 budget passed by the legislature just three months ago.
Rell's deficit mitigation plan released Tuesday afternoon assumes that the planned sales tax reduction from 6 to' [...] 
As expected, state Sen. Sam Caligiuri officially switched campaigns Tuesday afternoon and decided to drop his bid for the U.S. Senate and instead run against U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy in Connecticut's 5th Congressional District.
"I have been deeply humbled by the outpouring of'" [...] 
Tom Foley, the former Ambassador to Ireland, Bush fundraiser, and Republican U.S. Senate candidate released a statement Tuesday saying he is considering entering the race for governor.
"We no longer have an incumbent Governor seeking re-election. I have had a number of conversations with" [...] 
In what he acknowledges to be an unusual move, Kevin Lembo, the state's Healthcare Advocate, filed papers today seeking the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.
Lembo hasn't joined any of the six (possibly seven) Democratic candidates exploring a run for the governor's office' [...] 
Ned Lamont, who may seek the Democratic nomination to run for governor, was a man of few words Monday.
He joined state and local elected officials at the CSEA/SEIU Local 2001 headquarters in Hartford, but bailed before helping to bag up 223 turkey's along [...] 
With little more than 24 hours left before the U.S. Senate goes forward with a test vote on its health care bill, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd made a stop at a small manufacturing business in New Britain.
After touring Metalform Company Inc., which manufactures [...] 
The state inked a 35-year contract that will change the operation and look of its 23 service stations along Interstate 95, the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways, and I-395, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Thursday.
A Subway restaurant franchiser and a private equity firm have teamed [...] 
Kevin O'Connor, a former U.S. attorney and former associate U.S. attorney general, told Dennis House during the taping of "Face the State" on Thursday that he will not run for governor.
O'Connor had been mentioned as a possible Republican contender when Gov. M. Jodi Rell [...] 
There are no cameras, but this small wireless device helps the staff at Mulberry Gardens in Southington provide a higher level of care to its residents.
Perry Phillips, executive director of the senior assisted living facility, said 90 percent of the residents don't even know it's [...] 
After the briefing on the long-awaited Senate health care bill, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd talked Wednesday about how he wished U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy were there to be part of this historic moment.
"This bill meets the test of history, reflecting the" [...] 
Starting on Jan. 1 foreclosed properties will now be subject to state and municipal conveyance taxes, according to language approved in the state budget passed three months ago.
It's a policy change which will hit a vulnerable population and it has lawmakers on both [...] 
The Connecticut Green Party has reached out to Winsted native and Green Party darling Ralph Nader to ask him to run against U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd.
"We're going to ask him to do it," Steve Fournier, state co-chairman of the Green Party, said Tuesday night. Nader' [...] 
(Updated 6:33 p.m.) After talks with Republican party leaders, state Sen. Sam Caligiuri will have a choice to make: continue his campaign against U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd or take on U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy.
Caligiuri said that he will make his decision over [...] 
In his weekly conference call with Connecticut reporters, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd reacted to last week's poll numbers and talked about how the health care debate is shaping up in the Senate.
"Of course I'd like to see better numbers," Dodd said of' [...] 
Just a few weeks after state Comptroller Nancy Wyman predicted the state would end the year with a $624 million deficit, the legislature's Office of Fiscal Analysis and the Office of Policy and Management agreed Monday that the budget deficit at the end of [...] 
(Updated 9:24 p.m.) Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday that he will seek legislation that requires greater disclosure of medical mistakes at hospitals.
From wrong-sided surgeries to sponges left in patients after surgery, Blumenthal said the hospitals failure to disclose these adverse medical mistakes [...] 
The man who was chosen for the vice presidency over U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd will visit Hartford Dec. 11 to raise money for the embattled senator.
Just two months after President Barack Obama came to Stamford to help Dodd raise $1 million for [...] 
(Updated 4:05 p.m.) The good news is the recession is over, the bad news is that the labor market and jobs aren't going to rebound until the middle of next year, Gov. M. Jodi Rell's Council of Economic Advisors told a roomful of lawmakers Thursday.
"Yes,'" [...] 
It wasn't just one court, one legislature, or one governor that made marriage equality for same-sex couples possible.
It was a movement supporters said Thursday at a gathering to commemorate the one year anniversary of the day Connecticut began allowing same-sex marriage.
' [...] 
With one Republican challenger beating him by 11 points, another by seven, and yet another by two, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd has to be wondering what more he can do to improve his poll numbers in Connecticut.
Since the last Quinnipiac University poll in [...] 
Standing outside the Community Child Guidance Clinic in Manchester state Rep. Ryan Barry, D-Manchester, offered his wholehearted support to former House Speaker James Amann's bid for governor in 2010.
"This is the kind of guy who grabs you by the lapels in the middle" [...] 
The inmate who has waged a hunger strike for more than two years watched his lawyers make their closing arguments Tuesday, but was not allowed to speak.
William B. Coleman, who says he's using a hunger strike to protest his 2002 spousal rape conviction and a "broken'" [...] 
(Updated 7:03 p.m.) "After much soul searching and discussion with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election next year," Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Monday at an impromptu 5 p.m. press conference in her Capitol office.
Rell fought back tears a [...] 
A Connecticut judge is scheduled to hear closing arguments Tuesday in the case of an inmate who has been on a hunger strike for more than two years.
Superior Court Judge James Graham was asked 11 months ago by the American [...] 
It's an issue that prevails in all economic climates and in all socioeconomic groups, but it's not an issue that resonates loudly enough in the hallways of the state Capitol.
At least not until now.
House Speaker Chris Donovan said Friday that he was [...] 
(Updated) A decline in the inmate population coupled with the need to find $63.4 million in savings over the next two years, has prompted Gov. M. Jodi Rell to ask the Department of Corrections to consider closing a prison.
According to the Department of Corrections, the [...] 
Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell used her executive authority Thursday to cut $34 million from the two-year $37.6 billion state budget. Some state agencies were dealt cuts as much as 5 percent, while others received cuts as little as $5.
"We have no choice but to" [...] 
Since he announced Wednesday that he would be exploring a campaign for governor, opponents and political insiders have speculated about whether Ned Lamont, the wealthy Greenwich businessman, would participate in the state's public campaign finance system.
"I think the answer to that is simple,"' [...] 
It's unclear at the moment if Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's deficit mitigation plan will attempt to close a $388 million budget gap or the $624 million budget gap calculated last week by state Comptroller Nancy Wyman.
What is clear is that the [...] 
The two non-voters in the race for U.S. Senate got out to the polls Tuesday and cast their ballots for local officials in Weston and Greenwich.
According to the Registrar of Voters in each town, Linda McMahon and Peter Schiff, two of U.S. [...] 
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Before leaving to spend Thanksgiving in Colorado Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Wednesday afternoon that she would be calling the General Assembly back Dec. 15 to vote on her deficit mitigation plan and fix the state's fledgling campaign finance law.
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