Former state Rep. Bill Dyson and media strategist Dean Pagani will be among the guests Sunday morning on "The Stan Simpson Show'' on Fox 61.
Dyson, the longtime co-chairman of the budget-writing appropriations committee who retired as the dean of the House of Representatives, and Pagani, the former chief of staff" [...]
The University of Connecticut announced Friday that it has called off a controversial proposed merger between the UConn Health Center and Hartford Hospital - a deal that failed to gain enough support at the state Capitol.
The announcement came soon after the faculty at the health center voted this week to [...]
Owner of Bristol Mums Inc., he oversees the cultivation of hundreds of thousands of the [...]
The state's unemployment rate has jumped to 8.8 percent - although that is still lower than the national rate of 10.2 percent.
As the unemployment rate constantly increases, it becomes more and more of a political issue as the candidates head into the 2010 election.
"Today's announcement is yet another stark reminder" [...]
A report from Courant Staff Writer Edmund H. Mahony:
Kevin O'Connor, a Republican former U.S. attorney and former associate U.S. attorney general, said Thursday he will not run for governor, a decision that reshapes what is expected to be a hard-fought contest to replace Gov. M. Jodi Rell.
O'Connor, of West Hartford, [...]
The faculty at the cash-strapped University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington has voted to unionize.
The details are at [www.courant.com]
[...]The Courant's Edmund H. Mahony reports the following:
Buried in debate over the Obama administration's decision to try conspirators in the Sept. 11 attacks in a civilian federal court in New York was talk about where the case could end up should the defendants succeed in seeking a change of venue. [...]
In the age of cell phones, sending text messages is a common occurrence.
But the technology isn't yet perfected to send a reliable text message to the 911 emergency call center.
The reason, as the legislature's public safety committee was told in a forum this week, is that some of the phone calls' [...]
Even as 5th District Republicans await word on whether state Sen. Sam Caligiuri is entering the race for Congress, Republican Justin Bernier continues to line up support.
Bernier announced today that he has picked up the endorsement of the Washington Republican Town Committee. He adds this latest vow of support to endorsements from Republicans [...]
About 650 members of the Yale University community -- students, faculty and staff -- signed a letter urging Sen. Joseph Lieberman, a Yale grad, to reverse course on the health care bill.
Lieberman has said he opposes any healthcare bill that includes a government-funded insurance option and has threatened to filibuster any [...]
Republicans yesterday thwarted an effort by Democratic Sen. Christopher Dodd that would have frozen credit card rates on existing balances.
"On behalf of several Senators on this side of the aisle, I object," Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Mississippi, said when Dodd attempted to raise the matter.
UPDATE 1: In response to a good question posed by [...]
Superstar Billy Graham ranked among the greatest professional wrestlers of his generation - winning the WWWF championship and helping to sell out Madison Square Garden nearly 20 times.
He traveled around the world and made plenty of money, but it came at a steep price.
Graham admits that he took steroids for [...]
Superstar Billy Graham, one of the best-known professional wrestlers of the 1970s and 1980s, is criticizing Linda McMahon for recent changes in wrestling as she is running for the U.S. Senate.
World Wrestling Entertainment, which McMahon operated as the former CEO before announcing her campaign in mid-September, says the changes and [...]
Before he became a political operative, Chris Healy worked as a reporter at the Register Citizen in Torrington. (This was back in the mid-1980s, an era that is now recalled as the Golden Age of community journalism. Just about every governmental body in Litchfield County -- from the Norfolk board of zoning appeals to the Goshen [...]
I'm down and out.http://blogs.courant.com/cityline/2009/11/downtown-no-freeze-shelter-con.html
Downtown “No Freeze” Shelter Concerns Residents, Business Owners
By Jeffrey B. Cohen
on November 17, 2009 12:32 PM
The city plans to open a men’s “no freeze” shelter for the homeless in an annex of Center Church in the heart of downtown, but the idea has raised concerns of nearby residents and business [...]
In a move that would shake up two political races, the state Republican chairman is publicly asking state Sen. Sam Caligiuri to run against Democratic incumbent Rep. Christopher Murphy in the 5th Congressional district.
As the former acting mayor of Waterbury, Caligiuri is well-known in the Greater Waterbury area, which is near the core [...]
The Connecticut League of Conservation Voters has announced its top 12 "green'' legislators for their support of the environment.
The entire legislature was rated by the CTLCV with ratings ranging from 24 percent to 100 percent - based on votes at both the committee level and on the floor of the" [...]
In case you had not heard, Dean Pagani, Gov. John G. Rowland's former chief of staff and longtime spokesman, is leaving for Washington, D.C.
A former reporter for WPOP-AM in its heyday, Pagani covered everything from local Manchester politics to the creation of the state income tax in 1991. He eventually' [...]
The retirement of longtime city lawyer Ann Baldwin leaves a gaping hole in the city attorney’s office.
Baldwin, a 32-year veteran, was one of two full-time attorneys working for the city.
Her departure means the city has to get by without a corporation counsel – the part-timer who’s supposed to [...]
I just came across this old Love and Rage newspaper article and thought it looked relevant and interesting. The Love and Rage Archive can be viewed here.
The ongoing challenge in feminist discourse over social constructionist versus biological determinist views of gender often remove us from the people feminists would hope [...]
Vice President Joseph Biden will be the headliner at a luncheon fundraiser for his close friend, U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, on Friday, December 11 in Hartford.
The new Connecticut Science Center, overlooking the waterfront, is the venue.
Daniela Altimari has the details at [www.courant.com]
[...]When longtime Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy came in third place in the Quinnipiac Poll last week with 9 percent of the vote in a potential Democratic primary that is almost 10 months away, some insiders were surprised at his lack of name recognition.
Malloy spread his name around the state by [...]
To all our readers:
You should know that we've been having some technical computer problems that is slowing down both the publishing of various posts and your comments. You should also know that it is being worked on.
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Gov. M. Jodi Rell's executive assistant, Lt. Col. Fran Evon, is heading off to Afghanistan as part of the largest deployment for the Connecticut National Guard since the Korean War.
Rell and some of her staff members gathered at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford - as part of a larger [...]
Former state Sen. Gary Hale, who is now a lobbyist in Hartford, owes nearly $78,000 in state income tax.
Hale became well-known in the hot summer of 1991 for providing one of the crucial votes that allowed for the creation of the state income tax under then-Gov. Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
The [...]
The Ct TransAdvocacy Coalition, MCC/Hartford and many of our allies and community will be Remembering those individuals who are brutally murdered simply because they did not conform to societies standards of what a “real man or woman” looks or acts like.
Friday, November 20, 2009
5:15 PM [...]
The following statement is from our comrades at SRLP and also available online at [srlp.org]
For the reasons stated below, we believe that a law that links our community’s experiences of violence and death to a demand for increased criminal punishment, as well as further funding for imperialist war, [...]City councilors agreed recently to consider allowing municipal board members to participate in meetings without actually attending them.
First-term city Councilor David Mills said that more people would be able to participate if they could sometimes attend through web-based meeting programs or other electronic means.
“Maybe the pool could be [...]
New Britain Mayor Timothy Stewart has been fighting for years in the trenches of partisan warfare as a Republican mayor up against a Democratic-dominated city council.
Stewart is expected to clash again with Phil Sherwood, a longtime political activist who is now the council leader.
"Phil Sherwood?'' Stewart asked in today's Hartford" [...]
To raise revenue, the city is exploring the idea of putting advertising on the side of residential trash bins.
They’d be like “mini-billboards” on both sides of the wheeled receptacles the city distributes to residents to toss their trash.
The idea, which a public works committee is looking into, hasn’t [...]
Our colleague, Rick Green, analyzes the latest Quinnipiac College poll that shows former U.S. Rep. Rob Simmons ahead of U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd.
It is the sixth straight Q poll - dating back to March - in which Simmons is ahead of Dodd.
The details are at [blogs.courant.com]
[...]Longtime political reporter John King will be replacing controversial host Lou Dobbs on CNN in a prime-time spot.
The details are at [www.courant.com]
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