State Rep. David Aldarondo, D-Waterbury, (seen here with former House Speaker’s Jim Amann and Moira Lyons) is a low-key backbencher who rarely makes a noise in the House of Representatives, but he was one of many in the Super Majority who chose to join the chorus of inaction Tuesday [...]
The fight for REAL immigration reform starts now.State Rep. Themis Klarides, a deputy Republican leader, has endorsed Rob Simmons for the U.S. Senate.
The endorsement by Klarides places the entire GOP leadership in the state House of Representatives behind Simmons, including GOP leader Lawrence Cafero of Norwalk and deputy William Hamzy of Plymouth. Overall, Simmons also has the [...]
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' [...]
The Green Party is hosting a panel discussion Wednesday at Wesleyan University on solving the health care crisis through a single-payer system.
The forum will focus on the weaknesses in the bill that was passed along party lines by the U.S. House of Representatives, known as HR 3962, the Affordable Health Care For [...]
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" [...]
