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 [...] 
Using a tiny specialized microscope that can see living cells inside patients in real time, physicians at Yale-New Haven Hospital are developing new methods to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early, more survivable stage.
The new tool is a very small confocal laser microscope that [...] 
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 [...] 
Armed with an incriminating photo, a band of blackmailers hustled $200,000 from a prominent New Haven attorney. They demanded more -- then Det. Robin Higgins and her "take-down team" stepped in.
Seeking help after a year of torment, the attorney came to Higgins in October. [...] 
A federal judge Tuesday ordered the City of New Haven to promote Frank Ricci and 13 fellow firefighters, ending a years-long freeze on advancement on the city's fire force.
Judge Janet Bond Arterton issued the order in U.S. District Court in New Haven on [...] 
(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' [...] 
After an "unbelievable" closed-door session, the New Haven Democracy Fund slapped a $500 fine on the mayor's campaign for a late filing. Then it gave him a pass for "flying in the face of" the spirit of the clean elections law by moving cash [...] 
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 [...] 
Bringing her campaign to the morning bacchanalia outside the Yale-Harvard Game, U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon declared her trust in President Obama on Afghanistan -- but not on health care reform.
McMahon, one of five Republicans running to unseat Democratic incumbent U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd [...] 
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" [...] 
It is not possible on today's wireless networks to send text messages to 911 dispatchers, however, the Connecticut Department of Public Safety is busy working on a new system that would support this kind of emergency call.
The issue of texting 911 became [...] 
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 [...] 
As a judge considers a motion to promote white firefighters who brought the Ricci case, seven African-American firefighters have stepped into the case.
On Monday, a group of seven black firefighters filed a Motion to Intervene in Ricci v. DeStefano, the controversial case stemming [...] 
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 [...] 
She was already scared of her mother's boyfriend for allegedly fondling her. Now, she said, she awoke to find him pouring liquid on her head and lighting matches.
She struggled with him, twice, to break free.
A 12-year-old girl, who saved her baby sister's life and [...] 
(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 [...] 
The following opinion article, about lessons of the aftermath of a New London eminent domain case that went to the Supreme Court, originally appeared in condensed form on the New York Times website. Click here to read the latest news development that prompted the [...] 
(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,'" [...] 
Four towns in Connecticut will need to hold runoff elections on Nov. 24 for one Town Council and three Board of Education seats.
According to the Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz, recounts following the Nov. 3 municipal elections resulted in ties in four communities.
In Avon, [...] 
Key clues that led police to solve the murder of a Yale grad student included a green ink pen, a pair of boots, and a bloody sock. And a suspicious encounter with Raymond Clark involving a bloody box of "Wipe-Alls."
The hunt for clues that led to [...] 
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" [...] 
Merrick Alpert, the Democrat challenging U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, is running a campaign with a striking resemblance to that of President Barack Obama having just published his memoirs, Morning Sun.
However, Alpert says that he had no intention of emulating Obama's successful campaign because [...] 
Four months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of 20 New Haven firefighters, the controversial case has landed back in a local courthouse, where a jury trial looms.
The case is Ricci v. DeStefano, the reverse discrimination suit filed by city [...] Christine Stuart, Paul Bass and Thomas Macmillan, Thomas MacMillan, Kim Grzybala, Abram Katz, Ben Johnson, Ellen Andrews, Leonard J. Honeyman, CTNewsjunkie Staff, Liz Dupont-Diehl, Paul Bass, Jim Diamond
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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