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Whistleblower accuses Pratt & Whitney of selling government defective jet engines

By: Ana Radelat | August 17, 2018

WASHINGTON – A whistleblower says Pratt & Whitney and its parent company, United Technologies Corp., sold the Pentagon tens of millions of dollars in defective fighter jet engines, unnecessarily exposing military pilots to the risk of catastrophic engine failures.

Briefs

Politics

Turnout increased for both parties, Dem enthusiasm closes gap

By: Ana Radelat | August 16, 2018

Connecticut followed a national trend with a boost in the number of voters who cast ballots in their party’s primary election on Tuesday, and those numbers show that enthusiasm among Democratic voters has increased.

Politics

Democrats, Republicans debate relevance of social issues

By: Mark Pazniokas | August 16, 2018

Standing outside the Hartford Gay & Lesbian Health Collective, the Democratic nominees for governor and lieutenant governor, Ned Lamont and Susan Bysiewicz, tried Thursday to draw Republicans into a debate over abortion, gay marriage, Donald J. Trump and the Family Institute of Connecticut. The invitation was declined.

Health Care

CT overdose death increase exceeds most other New England states

By: Jake Kara and Clarice Silber | August 16, 2018

As New Haven grappled Thursday for the second straight day with a drug overdose crisis, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Connecticut’s rise in overdose deaths in 2017 was much higher than all but one other New England state.

Op/Ed

We will not shut up

By: Sue Cross | August 16, 2018

Dear Friends,
Today, the Institute for Nonprofit News [to which the Connecticut Mirror belongs] joins journalists across the country in asking you, the public, to stand up for your rights to free speech and an open government. This started as a campaign by the Boston Globe to ask the President of the United States to knock off attacking the news media.

Budget/Economy

CT loses 1,200 jobs in July; unemployment remains at 4.4 percent

By: Keith M. Phaneuf | August 16, 2018

Connecticut lost 1,200 jobs in July but its unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.4 percent, the state Department of Labor reported Thursday. Continue Reading →

Politics

Once again, CT GOP bets on a business outsider

By: Mark Pazniokas | August 16, 2018

Bob Stefanowski is the latest in a series of outsiders from the world of business to win a Republican primary for top-of-ticket statewide offices in Connecticut, none of whom were able to beat their conventional Democratic opponents in the fall. But those races for governor and U.S. Senate came before the ultimate outsider, Donald J. Trump, captured the White House. And none of them followed the path taken by Stefanowski. Continue Reading →

Politics

Feds give Connecticut $10.6 million for districts with displaced students

By: Clarice Silber | August 15, 2018

The United States Department of Education has announced it will allocate Connecticut $10.6 million for school districts that took in displaced students from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands after Hurricane Maria wreaked widespread devastation last fall. Continue Reading →

Politics

Hayes would be a minority within a minority in Congress

By: Ana Radelat | August 15, 2018

If Jahana Hayes succeeds in winning a seat in Congress, she will be in a select group of minority lawmakers who represent overwhelmingly white majority districts. Hayes garnered substantial support among white Democrats, winning towns in the district with few minority residents, like Goshen, Litchfield and Southbury, by more than 66 percent of the vote. Continue Reading →

Budget/Economy

With primary over, Lamont tries to define himself and Stefanowski

By: Keith M. Phaneuf | August 15, 2018

One day after a landslide win in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, Ned Lamont began working to separate himself from Republican opponent Bob Stefanowski, another wealthy businessman who’s founded his campaign on the fiscally-questionable-yet-nonetheless-appealing pledge to eliminate Connecticut’s income tax. Continue Reading →

Politics

Hayes wins ground-breaking victory for 5th District nomination

By: Ana Radelat and Tom Condon | August 14, 2018

Jahana Hayes, the political novice whose compelling life story drew national attention, soundly defeated former Simsbury First Selectman Mary Glassman Tuesday for the Democratic nomination to represent Connecticut’s 5th Congressional District. Continue Reading →

Politics

Lamont defeats Ganim in landslide

By: Keith M. Phaneuf and Clarice Silber | August 14, 2018

Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont easily captured the Democratic gubernatorial nomination Tuesday, outpolling a former convicted felon, Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim, in every community except Ganim’s hometown. Continue Reading →

Politics

No surprises in races for attorney general, comptroller, treasurer

By: Jacqueline Rabe Thomas | August 14, 2018

There were no surprises in Tuesday’s primary elections for attorney general, comptroller and treasurer as voters selected the same candidates that were nominated at their party’s conventions this past spring. Continue Reading →

GOP nominates an outsider, Bob Stefanowski, for governor

By: Mark Pazniokas, Julia Werth and Mackenzie Rigg | August 14, 2018

Bob Stefanowski won the five-way Republican primary for governor Tuesday night after ignoring Connecticut’s GOP establishment, opting out of the state’s public-financing program and repeating one outlandish campaign promise like a daily affirmation: He will “rip costs” from state government and make its income tax disappear over eight years. Continue Reading →

Politics

Unofficial 2018 primary results, as they roll in

By: Jake Kara | August 14, 2018

Below you’ll find unofficial vote totals from Tuesday’s primaries as they are posted on the secretary of the state’s election night reporting system. Continue Reading →

By: Ana Radelat | August 17, 2018

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Briefs

By: Ana Radelat | August 16, 2018

By: Mark Pazniokas | August 16, 2018

By: Jake Kara and Clarice Silber | August 16, 2018

By: Sue Cross | August 16, 2018