Would you buy a used war from these men?
edited by: Judy Aron,
Connecticut Editor
Every so often you get to be pleased. (I think.) Months ago, I suggested to Auxiliary Bishop Peter Rosazza that he and I do a full-show interview. My idea was to focus the conversation on his person experience of faith and mysticism. Today was the day, and I confess [...]
We're hearing an awful lot about the troubles of the Connecticut casinos, yet they still rake in millions of dollars a day.
Then there's the Connecticut Lottery, which tells us the holiday season is the perfect' [...]
They first met in 1989 in the meeting room of a Windsor Locks church. "It was a small group,'' recalled Richard Kendall of Stratford. "We were struggling.''
Over the course of two decades, that small circle of Christians loosely affiliated with James Dobson's Focus on Family grew into one of the most prominent [...]
The state's former banking commissioner, Jack Burke, has died.
Burke kept a low profile throughout his entire tenure under then-Gov. John G. Rowland and Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
Longtime Hartford Courant banking reporter Ken Gosselin has the details at [www.courant.com]
[...]Crude, a documentary, will finish its run at Real Art Ways tomorrow evening. It’s worth seeing, if for no other reason than that it does not fixate on Iraq, hybrid cars, or George W. Bush. The film documents the long, arduous, and frustrating class action lawsuit against Chevron-Texaco [...]
This paper was published on October 8th:
“Evaluation of the efficacy and safety of a statin/caffeine combination against H5N1, H3N2 and H1N1 virus infection in BALB/c mice”
by Liu, Zeyu et al.
European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 38:215-223, 2009
“The development of novel antiviral drugs is necessary for the prevention and treatment [...]
Washington, D.C. -- At the dawn of a ramped-up war in Afghanistan, Joe Lieberman used a moment in the spotlight Wednesday to try to define the mission -- as lasting well beyond mid-2011.
Lieberman's moment lasted seven minutes, actually.
That was the Connecticut senator's time to [...] (WTNH) – (WTNH) - Members of the Obama cabinet went before the Senate Armed Services Committee today to answer questions on the war in Afghanistan. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) sits on that committee and he talked exclusively with Chief Political Correspondent Mark Davis after the hearing.
Read more »The Courant's Rinker Buck reports the following:
Irish-American writer Frank McCourt was revered around the world for his epic tales of growing up poor in Limerick and then emigrating to America in such memories as "Angela's Ashes" and "'Tis."
But less well known was McCourt's local role in promoting the arts' [...]
For opponents, the decisive, 38 to 24 vote in the N.Y. state Senate is another big win in a Northeastern state, coming on the heels of last month's referendum in Maine.
For gay rights activists, it's a stinging defeat in a state they had hoped would follow Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont and New [...]
He'll make stops in New Haven, Norwich and Hartford and he'll be joined by U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Duncan has conducted similar "listening and learning sessions" around the nation.
We'll post more details about the specifics of the trip as they' [...]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) – Environmental officials in Maine and a dozen other states say federal laws to protect the public from toxic chemicals are too weak and states instead are leading the way.
Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution.
[...]Albany, NY (AP) – New York lawmakers have rejected a bill to legalize gay marriage.
Read more »Original post blogged on b2evolution.
[...]CROMWELL - With an anti-tax, pro-business message, Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele formally announced his candidacy for governor Wednesday by saying he would create jobs for the state in the same way he did it for his own small business.
Fedele made the announcement before about 100 manufacturing executives at a forum [...]
Former wrestler Jesse "The Body'' Ventura criticized professional wrestling the other day, but he actually talked about a whole series of other topics.
One of them was the infamous Kelo case from New London, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a highly controversial, much-debated decision that a government entity could take" [...]
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 [...] The $50 Million Woman's latest ad is giving Rob Simmons, ex-CIA and ex-U.S. Rep., some red meat to throw to the far right fringe he is courting.
The new McMahon ad trumpets job creation and what seems like her opposition to the stimulus package. That's the same one that economists generally agree has prevented a [...]
Poor Lt. Gov Mike Fedele can’t get no respect. He was endorsed by Jodi Rell but then he kinda wasn’t, exactly. And now that he’s finally making his official announcement today, guess who’s raining on his parade?
Another one of those darn “Greenwich millionaires”! The Courant’s Rick Green that [...]
Abdel Sattar Qassem outside his home in Nablus. (Marcy Newman)
By Marcy Newman, The Electronic Intifada, 27 November 2009
Abdel Sattar Qassem, a professor and author of numerous publications on Palestinian history and Islamic thought, is well-known for his pungent critiques of Israel and the Palestinian Authority [...]
Can't these Republicans show a little respect for each other? Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele is making his long-awaited announcement this morning that he will run for governor. What does job-shopping Tom Foley do? He announces this morning that tomorrow will be his big day.' [...]
12 December 2009
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the regime will return to settlement construction after a "temporary" moratorium on new construction in the occupied West Bank.
Netanyahu said on Tuesday that a 10-month settlement freeze he had earlier announced was only a "one-time, temporary" move, [...]
The number of Arab residents of East Jerusalem Al-Quds stripped of their residency rights by the Israeli Interior Ministry strikes an all-time record.
Last year, the ministry revoked the residency of 4,577 Palestinian residents of the illegally annexed neighborhood, the Israeli daily Haaretz said on Wednesday, compared with the [...]
Israel says the Palestinian dismay at the partial halt of settlement expansions should be the last issue of concern.
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has said that Israel disregards Palestinians' opposition to its offer for a partial freeze on its settlement activity.
"The last thing that should interest us'" [...]
Cigar-chomping New Haven rainmaker Willie Dow again proves he's the Connecticut lawyer to call when you are looking at jail time. My colleague David Owens reports that Dow's arguments helped to convince Superior Court Judge William H. Bright to sentence former UConn [...]
There has been a DPUC investigation brewing for quite a while now of our own East Hartford Community Television after it was revealed that EHCT had been falsely claiming it was a non-profit for some 20 years and had managed to squirrel away almost a million dollars in cash and [...]
The award goes to Daniela Altimari at Capitol Watch:
If Obama’s a socialist, his comrades aren’t happy
The post covers the response from the Socialist Party of Connecticut to President Obama’s plan to increase the number of American troops in Afghanistan:
We hope that the disenchanted popular movement that brought this administration [...]
A leading state health-care reformer decided Tuesday not to decide yet whether to run for governor.
Juan Figueroa, a prime mover as chief of the Universal Health Care Foundation behind the passage of a health reform law called SustiNet, originally set a Dec. 1 [...] 
Christmas at Dylan's house. 
