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Congressman John Larson of Connecticut, Vice Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, will deliver the Democratic Radio Address tomorrow. In his address, Congressman Larson will discuss energy legislation the New Direction Congress will bring forward to [...]
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi - the highest-ranking elected woman in the country - will be coming to Hartford next Friday to speak to the World Affairs Council at the Hartford Club.
Pelosi will deliver the inaugural speech for a new program that is known as the Global Women's Issues Forum, [...]
A dozen Connecticut delegates, including Lt. Gov. Michael C. Fedele, State Chair Chris Healy and Rob Simmons were on hand to congratulate him. About the half the seats in [...]
Washington (AP) – Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama plans to boost the fight against cancer by doubling spending on research and guaranteeing that people have access to health insurance regardless of pre-existing conditions, campaign officials said Friday.
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[...]Cedarburg, Wis. (AP) – John McCain and Sarah Palin have hit the campaign trail after the GOP convention in an effort to cast the Republican ticket as a team of determined reformers eager to bring change to Washington.
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[...]Duryea, Pa. (AP) – Democrat Barack Obama called Republican rival John McCain’s acceptance speech the final piece of an out-of-touch convention that focused on its nominee’s biography instead of the struggles of the middle class.
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[...]Anchorage, Alaska (AP) – The Alaska Legislature will work to complete its ethics investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin’s firing of her public safety commissioner earlier than expected, weeks before the national election.
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[...]School has been open for a week and STA just can't get [...]
Rep. Rosa DeLauro put out a hard-hitting statement today regarding Rep. Chris Shays’ full-throated support of Republican Gov. and Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin:
Chris Shays’ statement about Sarah Palin and Connecticut voters is demeaning to women. Governor Palin is opposed to a woman’s right to choose, equal pay for women, favors [...]
(Updated 4:22 p.m) Property owners and municipalities can rest a little easier today knowing that the Department of Public Utilities Control issued a draft decision requiring AT&T to seek their consent before erecting the refrigerator-sized V-RAD boxes on both public and private [...] 
Poor Joe.
Seems like our junior senator is having a bit of a tough time finding any amount of support in Connecticut from paper's that once endorsed him in 2006.
Lieberman has gone his own way since 2006 when he lost the Democratic nomination for re-election over his support [...]
Hartford police say they have made a second arrest in connection with the Aug. 9 West Indian Day Parade shooting that led to one death and the wounding of six others, including two young children.
Police said 17-year-old Sylvester Burrell of Bloomfield, pictured at right, [...] 
Debilitating the educational and health sectors in Gaza is Fatah's new strategy for bringing down Hamas -- a strategy that is failing and will likely backfire, writes Saleh Al-Naami
Palestinian youth watch a boat carrying foreign peace activists leaving Gaza last Thursday
Amer Boreik, 42, came back to [...]
Hamas is holding fast in the Shalit affair, to the chagrin of Israel, under pressure to see its soldier freed, writes Khaled Amayreh in occupied East Jerusalem
Reacting to Israeli "dithering and procrastination", Hamas has decided to up the ante as to the price Israel has to pay in order [...]
It has gotten out of hand. h/t Tyler K.
I do, however, regard this as unlikely to be true:
Detective Sergeant Richard Jones said: "Police are treating this matter seriously."
With Fatah clamping down hard on Hamas in the West Bank, Palestinian unity is the clearest victim, writes Khaled Amayreh in Ramallah
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (r) welcoming Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (l) and senior Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erakat
Despite largely facetious denials, the Fatah-dominated Palestinian [...]
Apparently Heart doesn't want Palin using their song, even though it could be quite lucrative for them.
It is possible, of course, to reach certain compromises. Limbaugh's payments to Chrissie Hynde apparently go straight to PETA.
[...]OK, perhaps a bit unfair, but read this post at TPM that goes over what that ginormous building was behind John McCain yesterday. It turns out it’s a middle school in North Hollywood, CA called Walter Reed Middle School.
(pause)
OK, so, there may be a good reason why he spoke [...]
As the gavel came down on the 39th Republican National Convention last night, one couldn’t help but wonder how it was that we got here - not in a physical sense, but an existential one. Two months ago, the Republican [...]
You may include me among the people who looked, in incomprehension, at the building projected behind John McCain during his speech last night.
Josh Marshall offers the answer that it is a middle school in North Hollywood that happens to share a name, Walter Reed, with the [...]
The convention is over. John McCain delivered a decent, if not transcendent speech (no one really expected him to do so, however) and the delegations are coming home. But they’re coming with questions:
“The Republican brand is in transition. It is moving to a post-Bush era. It is not [...]
