Wallingford (WTNH) – Lawmakers are scheduled to address the latest round of budget cuts Tuesday. The Speaker of the House is accusing the Governor of not telling the whole story in the budget crisis.
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Well, I guess when it comes to LIEberman screwing the MAJORITY of Americans who want health care reform (WITH A PUBLIC OPTION), it's all our fault
Nothing makes me happier than knowing that Joe's still bitter over those "pesky" bloggers who drove him nuts back in [...]
The General Assembly will convene Tuesday for a special session, but it won’t be the one Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell requested.
House Speaker Chris Donovan said Monday evening that the legislature will return Tuesday morning, but won’t take up Rell’s recommended $337 million in spending cuts.
Instead, [...]
There has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth about Joe Lieberman, with many trying to divine the reason for his health care obstructionism. Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly, points us to a new theory:
There’s been ample speculation about what motivates Lieberman, and what compels him to be [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. Joe Lieberman was for a Medicare expansion before he was against it.
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Livni served as Israel's foreign minister during the country's war in Gaza earlier this year [REUTERS]
A British court reportedly issued an arrest warrant for Israel's former foreign minister on charges relating to Israel's 22-day war on Gaza, before apparently withdrawing it after it was found she [...]
Hartford (WTNH) – Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says consumers are being gouged in anticipation of the new federal credit card law.
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[...]A few months ago, our disgraceful junior senator did an online interview with Keith Whamond of the Danbury News-Times/Connecticut Post where he took with a series of questions form the public.
Here's what he said about expanding Medicare.
My proposals were [...]
Danbury mayor and possible gubernatorial candidate Mark Boughton, in his personal blog (which posts also to his widely-distributed Facebook page) says we’re on the brink.
Here is a news flashâŚthe State of Connecticut is broke. Busted. Cleaned out.
Here is another news flashâŚit is not going to get any better anytime [...]
Former state Sen. Bill Nickerson is backing Simmons for U.S. Senate, not Greenwich home girl, Linda McMahon.
"Having worked with Rob Simmons in the General Assembly and during his tenure as business advocate, I know that his commitment to public service and distinguished record make him the clear choice for Connecticut," Nickerson [...]
HIMC has learned that a transgender woman in Hartford’s West End reports she was recently harassed by another West End resident. The woman says she has been harassed verbally by the man on numerous occasions and he has allegedly made threats on her life. HIMC will post more information on [...]
After another active weekend in the U.S. Senate for Sen. Joe Lieberman and his colleagues, Connecticut’s junior Senator continues to be skeptical of the health care reform debate in Washington.
Lieberman announced on “Face the Nation” yesterday that he could not support the compromise agreement proposed late last week by moderate Democratic [...]
As Joe Lieberman continues to block ALL efforts for the Democrats to pass meaningful health care reform, a new poll conducted by Research 2000 shows that 81 percent of Democrats want the junior senator from the state of Atena stripped of his chairmanship if he joins the [...]
Recently I was asked by Governor Rell serve on a municipal mandate relief commission to help with the growing budget crisis in Hartford. Our charge was to develop a list of unfunded mandates that are passed along to cities and towns by the state and present them to the Legislature [...]
A group of advocates and lawmakers said 36 percent of Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s proposed spending cuts directly target children and would add another 5,000 workers to the state’s unemployment roll.
[...]She picked up the endorsement today of state Sen. Michael McLachlan, R-Danbury, a freshman who has quickly earned a reputation as one of the General Assembly's most prominent social conservatives.
"Linda knows how critical small business job creation is to economic growth. She understands that Washington's 'stimulus' is failing because it" [...]
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman's office responded to what it called false statements and smears against the senator's wife, Hadassah Lieberman.
"It is a sad day when a false guilt by association smear of a spouse of a public official by a notorious political operative and blogger is given so-called legitimacy in" [...]
The national GOP may be strategically silent on the state's senior Senator, but that doesn't mean the grassroots activists are holding their fire.
According to an interesting story in POLITICO last week by reporters Manu Raju and Glenn Thrush, "Dodd has become a dirty word to national Republicans." They are' [...]
Despite liberal blogger Jane Hamsher's call for the Susan G. Komen For the Cure Foundation to sever its relationship with Joseph Lieberman's wife Hadassah, the group is standing by the senator's wife.
"Hadassah Lieberman is an important and valued Global Ambassador for Susan G. Komen for the Cure,'' the group said in" [...]
Stamford (AP) – A Connecticut lawmaker is questioning whether the state will get its fair share of income under a deal letting a contractor run the state’s 23 highway rest areas.
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[...]Â by teachref09
Teacher has expressed a deep sense of frustration with replies to Taxpayerâs questioning of the value of the Character Counts program. One has only to look across the street from the Woodstock Middle School and see an entire educational facility dedicated to the Character Counts philosophy. Hyde School is [...]
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By PHILIP ELLIOTT and DANIEL WAGNER
Associated Press Writers
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is asking bank executives to support his efforts to tighten the financial industry, while bankers are prepared to tell the president he should stop oversimplifying their concerns if he wants good-faith collaboration.
Read more »State Capitol lobbyists will be gathering at 12 noon Monday for a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Christopher Murphy, who is running in a spirited race against state Sen. Sam Caligiuri and several others in the 5th Congressional District.
The fundraiser has been the subject of some conversation at the Capitol and the [...]
The commission formed to make state government more efficient will meet Monday to hear about its preliminary proposal to streamline government.
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I donât know much about this Program and so am giving benefit of the doubt by the ideal suggested by itâs title - and I donât understand objections to a program like this. What could be more important for young people to learn, develop, acquire, etc., than Character?
Tax says [...]
Washington (AP) – Republicans say you shouldn’t bet on a health care bill coming out of the Senate before Christmas.
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell says Americans are “overwhelmingly opposed” to the bill. McConnell says it’s a stretch to think the Senate will ignore public opinion and “jam this through [...]
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In a surprise setback for Democratic leaders, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, said on Sunday that he would vote against the health care legislation in its current form.
The bill's supporters had said earlier that they thought they had' [...]
DEMOCRACY IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORTThere are some very interesting discussions being generated as a result of the Robert Lawlor acquittal in Hartford last week: what does this say about the community, what does it mean for the future of the city, will the mistrust between residents of the city and the police ever [...]
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