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" [...]
U.S. Rep. Christopher Murphy voted against a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives that congratulated the New York Yankees on recently winning the World Series.
A Cheshire Democrat, Murphy represents the Fifth Congressional District that stretches from Simsbury to Danbury to Salisbury.
The details are at [www.trufan.com]-
[...]U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, a key player in the national health care debate, met Friday with the Bristol Hospital president and staff to talk about health care.
The controversial health care bill passed by 220 to 215 in the U.S. House of Representatives, and it now moves to the Senate. [...]
After the vote, the Connecticut delegation issued a series of releases:
Congressman Joe Courtney:
This evening, the House of Representatives took an historic step in [...]
The AIPAC drafted resolution HR-838 was supported by 80% of the U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 3. The resolution shamefully calls on the President and the Secretary of State “to oppose unequivocally any endorsement or further consideration” of the Goldstone report. In essence, the resolution tells the entire world [...]
A day after the US House of Representatives rejected the Goldstone report as "irredeemably biased", the UN General Assembly has begun debating an Arab-sponsored, non-binding resolution on the same report urging Israel and the Palestinians to independently investigate the report's findings.
Rosiland Jordan reports from New York.
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The Goldstone report alleges that Israel used disproportionate force in its war on Gaza [Reuters]
The US House of Representatives has passed a resolution rejecting the findings of a UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes during its military assault on Gaza.
The house voted [...]
