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Connecticut Editor
The University of Connecticut announced Friday that it has called off a controversial proposed merger between the UConn Health Center and Hartford Hospital.
The announcement came soon after the faculty at the health center voted this week to unionize for the first time - a sharp reversal from past votes that [...]
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 [...] 
Few things are as detestable as exploiting certain groups for your own personal political gain. At the lowest levels of respectability would be the use of our nation's veterans of the armed forces to further your own political exposure.
Like the rest of you, I'm an expert on I-84 in Hartford.
I drive on top of it, beneath it and around it. I've contemplated my existence while locked in bumper-to-bumper traffic. I monitor it closely from my office cubicle.
Most of the time, I curse this [...]
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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[...]Does anybody really think that the millionaire duo from Greenwich, Tom Foley and Linda McMahon, didn't have something to do with Sam Caligiuri's likely departure from the senate race? Caliguiri -- who now says he's also thinking about the governor's race --was urged (via press release!) by party central to run for the' [...]
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have [...]
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 [...]
So much for the dreamy Kevin O'Connor.
Caligiuri for Governor is a smart play. Sam is a stronger candidate than any of the others being mentioned right now. He's lost in that senatorial field, but he could do his party some good by running a strong race for governor.
' [...]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" [...]
Now for something totally different....
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 [...] by Becki
Just in from the Board of Education meeting…….
The BOE voted and elected Anthony Walker as Chairman, Scott Sincerbeaux as Vice-Chair and Carol Andrzeicik as Secretary.
Chairman Walker took the gavel and started conducting the meeting with a personal greeting - a positive and inclusive message. One item Chairman Walker brought [...]
Chair O'Brien
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, [...]
by Nary
The leadership of Woodstock’s RTC has successfully reinvented itself. Gone is the puffed up, chin out attitude that effectively saw Joe Breen drawn and quartered. Gone is their pal-ship with the CPS crowd along with whispered encouragement to recalcitrant Steve Rosendahl.
The RTC gave no public statement last [...]
The faculty at the cash-strapped University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington has voted to unionize.
The details are at [www.courant.com]
[...]It really doesn't matter how President Obama divides the Afghan baby, how he splits the difference between McChrystal and Biden. Because the war in Afghanistan has been lost.
[. . .]
I say this because of one' [...]
Democrats' Obamacare will raise premiums and taxes, cut Medicare, and drive up the deficit. Is This the kind of health care reform the American people want?
In the following video, Senate Republicans remind us that Americans do not want higher premiums and higher taxes disguised as reform:
' [...]
GUEST: Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy
