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Connecticut Editor
With a key vote in the U.S. Senate scheduled for tomorrow night on national health care reform, Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman is one of the key Senators to watch.
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Will a tax revolt this be the ultimate trickle-down economic effect? Revenue is drying up not only at the Federal level but is now doing so, as was inevitable, at the State and local levels. I’ll go out on a [...]
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 [...] Help support Bethel Temple Church Of God on Frank Street, in need of about $6,000 to replace stolen equipment.
Pastor Larry Pinkard will invoke the prophet Nehemiah from the pulpit Sunday — and tell a tale about how walls will be rebuilt on Frank Street.
The sermon will touch on the tale [...]
Sen. Joe Lieberman isn’t worried about the political consequences of his stance on health care reform:
“I don’t think about that stuff,” Lieberman told POLITICO this week. “I’m just — I’m being a legislator. After what I went through in 2006, there’s nothing much more that anybody [who] disagrees with [...]
Rick Torres decision to run for the GOP nomination in CD4 against Himes, besides not making a heck of a lot of sense, also assists Sen. Dan Debicella as he seeks the nod. Torres is from the same town, the same Bridgeport GOP “club”, as it were, as former Sen. [...]
Owner of Bristol Mums Inc., he oversees the cultivation of hundreds of thousands of the [...]
Washington (WTNH) – Chief Political Correspondent Mark Davis talks exclusively, one-on-one with Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, the man in the middle of the national heath care reform debate.
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Washington (AP) – The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making “inconsistent, misleading or incomplete” statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama. The committee didn’t recommend any punishment.
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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 [...] COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina lawmakers say they’ll formally consider the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week.
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[...]Wow. You take a few days away from blogging to focus on the job that pays and look what you miss:
1. Hearst’s drooling front page love fest on Linda McMahon
(see “McMahon’s wealth dwarfs resources of most GOP foes”).
McMahon’s money “makes her instantaneously … a formidable candidate,” [...]
According to Dennis House, former U.S. Attorney Kevin O’Connor won’t be running for Governor in 2010:
The 42 year old Republican made the announcement tonight during a taping of WFSB’s political program, “Face the State.” O’Connor is now an attorney with the Bracewell Giuliani law firm.
In the same upcoming episode [...]
Wethersfield (AP) – The Connecticut Labor Department says the state’s unemployment rate increased slightly to 8.8 percent, even though employers added 1,000 jobs in October.
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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 [...] Washington (AP) – The Senate will hold its first vote on health care legislation on Saturday night and Democrats will need 60 votes to prevail.
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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 [...] Connecticut Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz has been touring the state for weeks holding ceremonies to honor veterans.
Some though, like Brian Lockhart at the Stamford Advocate, are raising questions about whether it is a proper role of the the Secretary of the State – an office charged with registering [...]
Washington (AP) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday the government’s $700 billion bailout program will end “as soon as we can,” and that part of it will be used to lower the soaring federal debt.
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Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, is a front-line supporter of the government takeover of this nation’s health care system and spares no one from her lash who stands in the way.
DeLauro’s irrational conduct was just part of the Obama administrations confusion convention this week over breast [...]
Registration Form pdfPer the Courant, Fifth Congressional District Rep. Chris Murphy is at the center of a controversy over his health care vote.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is running an advertisement criticizing his vote while a liberal-leaning health care reform group is praising the second term Congressman in a rebuttal ad.
So [...]
New York (AP) – Fox News Channel correspondent Major Garrett says he’s a “conscientious objector” in his network’s fight with the White House. He interviewed Barack Obama on Wednesday, and the topic never came up.
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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 [...] By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
Washington (AP) – Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor this week would extend coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans at a cost of $849 billion over a decade, a Democratic leadership aide said Wednesday, citing a report from congressional budget experts.
Read [...]Hartford (WTNH) – Texting technology may soon be adaptable to the state’s 9-1-1 emergency service.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Connecticut lawmakers are learning that the state’s budget woes are on track to get much worse in 2012.
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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 comments section knows all.
State Rep. Jason Bartlett has been arrested for driving on a suspended license:
Newtown Police Sgt. Dominic Costello says Bartlett was pulled over by an officer who saw him driving while speaking on his cell phone, without a hands free device. After a short investigation, [...]
Washington (AP) – Sen. Robert Byrd says he’s looking forward to the next 56 years and 320 days.
That’s how long he’s served in the House and Senate. The West Virginia Democrat today became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history.
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Newtown police booking photo of Jason Bartlett.
Newtown (WTNH) – A Connecticut state representative faces multiple violations after he was pulled over by police in Newtown.
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[...]One day after the Republican contest in the Fifth Congressional District was shaken up by the announcement that State Sen. Sam Caligiuri is considering switching from the U.S. Senate race to the Congressional race, GOP candidate Justin Bernier has received to big boosts to his effort.
The Torrington Register Citizen featured [...]
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 [...] “She may look like a Sunday school teacher,” Graham said, but he insists nothing could be further from the truth. “Linda McMahon’s hands are as bloody as her husband’s because she is aware of every move in the ring,” he said.
Further in the article:
An aspiring painter, Graham [...]
Aftet last week’s Quinnipiac Poll revealed continued weakness in Sen. Chris Dodd’s public standing, some commentators are reviving a drumbeat that began earlier in the year by suggesting that Mr. Dodd should strike his colors and depart the field of political battle before things get worse.
The Hartford Courant picked up this meme in [...]
(WTNH) – Green Party of Connecticut officials announced Tuesday that they would welcome Ralph Nader into the 2010 race for U. S. Senate and think he would have a good chance to win against current Senator Dodd.
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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' [...] Hartford (AP) – The chairman of the Connecticut Republicans has asked one of his party’s candidates for U.S. Senate to consider switching races.
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