STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) – The closest adviser to Gov. M. Jodi Rell says in a rare interview that it’s unfair to refer to Rell’s chief of staff as Connecticut’s shadow governor.
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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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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 [...]
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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[...]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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The faculty at the cash-strapped University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington has voted to unionize.
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[...]Are tax giveaways the answer to Connecticut's employment woes - especially to lure companies to Stamford?
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Lured by government incentives worth as much as $89.5 million, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. will move its corporate headquarters to Stamford, Conn., from New York's Westchester County, Connecticut [...]
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 [...]
Gov. Rell reports a major breakthrough in highway junkfood:
For over two decades, the major food provider on the Connecticut Turnpike has been McDonald's. Under the new agreement, all 23 service plazas will include a Subway, a Dunkin' Donuts and [...]
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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 [...] 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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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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(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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