The Pew Research Center notes that support for Obama is similar to the early days of the Reagan Administration. Draw your own conclusions.
Pew's Andrew Kohut says "what's really exceptional at this stage of Obama's presidency is the extent to which the public has" [...]
I'm worried about one kid getting into college!
The Crouch family of Danbury just got four children into Yale. The Danbury News-Times has the story about the quadruplets.
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Westfarms mall messed with West Hartford -- and lost.
Now the behemoth mall's owners are paying big.
After allegedly corrupting and perverting West Hartford politics by pushing the town through lawsuits, two public referendums and assorted other shenanigans in a failed effort to block the Blue [...]
Does Tom Foley?
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Often spot-on and forward-thinking, Rep. Merrill is bunkered down in the war-room at the Alamo these days. I hope she emerges.
It's too bad, because she knows the problem runs deeper than the mess created by the do-nothing, war-monger Bush administration. Read her commentary from the Norwich Bulletin:
Connecticut's' [...]
Why, when we don't have enough money to run this state, can't we at least do a better job of funding our public schools more efficiently?
I'm not saying we should spend less than the $7 billion we pour into public education. I'm saying [...]
Interesting strategy from Republican commentator and Whole Foods aficionado Michael Petrelli. He writes in yesterday's Wall Street Journal:
There's no law that someone who enjoys organic food, rides his bike to work, or wants a diverse school for his kids must also believe that the federal' [...]
Politico is reporting that Rep. Rosa DeLauro has had enough of her grandstanding colleague in the senate:
No individual should hold health care hostage, including Joe Lieberman, and I'll say it flat out, I think he ought to' [...]
What does Sen. Joe Lieberman think about healthcare reform? It depends on the moment and how much he can leverage his position.
1. Talking to the Connecticut Post three months ago, Lieberman explained how "for some period of years I've been concerned about healthcare'" [...]
It's the season of entitlement, when nobody sacrifices. Read today's newspaper column.
And take a look at these figures on the jobs we are creating and the jobs we are losing. Lower paying jobs are replacing the better paid ones. The fast growing careers are on the left and [...]
A couple of recent meetings, including a public hearing in Hartford tonight and a private meeting with U.S. Rep. John Larson, has not produced any deal to renew work on rehab of the old Colt factory in Hartford. The [...]
Check out this video posted today by the Plum Line where three months ago Sen. Joe Lieberman appears to be saying he was for the Medicare "buy-in" for people in their fifties. That's the very thing he's so adamantly opposed to now. Quote starts about 1:30.
[...]The union weighs in on paying cash bonuses to teachers who work hard and achieve. The answer says Connecticut Education Association Executive Director John Yrchik is not to accept financial help from the outside world. It's more money from taxpayers.
"We must ask whether the acceptance of a great deal of" [...]
Who should make the life-or-death decision for Girts Zukovs, a 33-year-old Latvian immigrant who lies in a permanent vegetative state in Hartford Hospital?
Zukovs, critically injured in a motorcycle accident last summer and comatose since his surgery went awry shortly after that, has little chance of [...]
Give the business guys credit: they are ready to talk about the tough issues.
To run government more efficiently, leaders from Chambers of Commerce around the state say consolidating school districts and other substantial regionalization initiatives must be on the table. They want to discuss [...]
Do you believe folks who say nothing beats the U.S. healthcare system? Look at these new figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on healthcare around the world. We spend a ton, so why don't we live as long? Please explain, Sen. Lieberman.
A Rasmussen telephone poll of 500 state residents yesterday shows -- perhaps predictably -- that Chris Dodd isn't making any progress in head-to-head match-ups with his Republican challengers. Rob Simmons remains the strongest Republican candidate, though he's got to be concerned that he only outpolls the inexperienced, unknown and vulnerable McMahon' [...]
It wasn't quite an endorsement for MetroHartford Alliance President and potential gubernatorial candidate Oz Griebel, but Webster Bank President James Smith (at right) went halfway in his remarks this morning at the business group's monthly breakfast meeting in Hartford:
Oz, I just want to give you a hand' [...]
A much-anticipated story. Not much new here.
From former wrestler Bruno Sammartino:
I would not vote for her because I know what she contributed to the wrestling world with her husband ... The vulgarity, the nudity, the profanity, all that kind of crap -- it bothers me.
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If this new railroad line between New Haven and Springfield is such a good idea, why are our leaders doing their petulant best to ruin its chances?
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Tweet today from influential polling analyst and statistical genius Nate Silver, the guy behind FiveThirtyEight. He thinks Joementum is worse off than PA's Rick Santorum was back in 2006.
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From Gov. Rell's remarks this morning at the Middlesex Chamber of Commerce:
For Senator Chris Dodd: One of my old scarves to cover up the big bull's-eye on the Senator's back.
For Senator Joe Lieberman: From my collection of old movies. The old James Mason classic: "Odd'" [...]
Nothing to talk about? Try this:
At Red Notes from a Blue State, Don Pesci has a sharp take on the challenge facing Lt. Gov. Mike Fedele. He notes that Gov. Rell "will be hung like an albatross around Fedele's neck by his opponents both within and outside his party." In more salacious [...]
Veteran newsman Dennis House from now on prefers to be known online as The Hartfordite. Check out his renamed blog.
[...]Weeks ago, who would have thought that Linda McMahon would have made this a two-candidate race (sorry inhabitants of Planet Schiff). McMahon, with her intentional boasting that she might spend $50 million of her own money, has frightened off a felllow Greenwich multi-millionaire and a popular state senator. Next [...]
We don't know. But Greenwich millionaire businessman Tom Foley says he's ready to fight for the job. Foley announced Thursday afternoon that he was abandoning his senate bid to run for the governor's job. He didn't offer much more except to hint that he would not accept public financing. "There" [...]
We're hearing an awful lot about the troubles of the Connecticut casinos, yet they still rake in millions of dollars a day.
Then there's the Connecticut Lottery, which tells us the holiday season is the perfect' [...]
The $50 Million Woman's latest ad is giving Rob Simmons, ex-CIA and ex-U.S. Rep., some red meat to throw to the far right fringe he is courting.
The new McMahon ad trumpets job creation and what seems like her opposition to the stimulus package. That's the same one that economists generally agree has prevented a [...]
Can't these Republicans show a little respect for each other? Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele is making his long-awaited announcement this morning that he will run for governor. What does job-shopping Tom Foley do? He announces this morning that tomorrow will be his big day.' [...]
Cigar-chomping New Haven rainmaker Willie Dow again proves he's the Connecticut lawyer to call when you are looking at jail time. My colleague David Owens reports that Dow's arguments helped to convince Superior Court Judge William H. Bright to sentence former UConn [...]
Gombo has the story.
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It's a good idea, but Hartford still doesn't have its act together, the National Park Service says. The HBJ has more. Comment here.
Asher & Adams Pictorial Album of American Industry, 1876.
' [...]In the old Sealtest factory on a forlorn street corner in Hartford, the Chrysalis Center will soon be carrying out its hopeful work rebuilding lives.
As Hartford moves in fits and starts to repair itself, this investment in human capital might be as important as any other economic development in [...]
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