December 6, 2010

Now that his son is out of office, former President George H. W. Bush’s approval rating has rebounded dramatically, a new Gallup Poll says. The 41st president’s rating soared to 76 percent in 1999, but dropped by 20 percentage points in the later years of George W. Bush’s term. The elder Bush is back up […]

He won the election last month, but Governor-elect Dan Malloy resumed campaigning today with events intended to frame his approaches to assembling a new government and confronting a fiscal crisis. With a public meeting of his transition team at the state Capitol, Malloy tried to show a diverse group of advisers that will help him […]

A dozen people sat in the church basement, now serving as a makeshift waiting room. Their clinic was parked outside. The Malta House of Care, a medical clinic aboard a 36-foot Winnebago, provides free health care to uninsured residents. Four afternoons a week, it parks outside a different Hartford church and takes patients on a […]

Shannon Gracie decided years ago that she would study to become a machinist at her local vocational-technical school in Ansonia. “This job fits me,” she said. “There was a time I thought I wanted to do auto repair, but this is just more fun.” The problem, school officials say, is that much of the equipment […]

The battle over the alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter has taken yet another twist. Rep. John Larson is pushing two of his Democratic colleagues, those in charge of crafting the all-important stop-gap spending bill to keep the government running, to add language that will give the Defense Department “flexibility” to kill the program. Larson’s […]

Gov. M. Jodi Rell made it a point to tell the public to refrain from bringing gifts for her to an open house Wednesday in her office at the State Capitol, a farewell event for the retiring governor. But on Tuesday night, checks will be expected as she is saluted at a fundraising dinner at […]

A new source for health news debuts today with the launch of a website by the non-profit Connecticut Health Investigative Team. Founded by two longtime Hartford Courant journalists, Lynne DeLucia and Lisa Chedekel, C-HIT says it is “dedicated to producing original, responsible, in-depth journalism on issues of health and safety, in Connecticut and the surrounding […]

Politicians looking to woo older constituents of all political stripes should consider pushing for an extended delay to scheduled cuts in Medicare payments to doctors, according to a survey of AARP members released Monday. Of the 809 Connecticut AARP members surveyed, 84 percent said they were somewhat or very concerned that doctors might stop treating […]

Governor-elect Dan Malloy said today he likely will sign an executive order stopping the proposed deletion of emails compiled during the administration of Gov. M. Jodi Rell. Malloy told reporters he was “somewhat blown away” that current law did not requirer their preservation as public records. He was responding to a story Sunday in The […]

A panel of municipal, education and business leaders Monday failed to reach agreement on a proposal to require that state funds for education follow students who leave their local public schools for alternative institutions. The business and education reform leaders on the panel want to include the proposal in their final recommendations, but representatives of […]