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Dodd’s dream job?

With ex-Sen. Chris Dodd well into his third day of political retirement, there’s still no indication of what he’ll do next. But at a recent dinner party at Rep. Rosa Delauro’s Washington home, Dodd confided to one guest about his dream job. “He told my wife that he wants to be a Peace Corps director […]

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SustiNet board releases final report

The SustiNet Health Partnership board released its final recommendations Friday in a 242-page document. The proposal will now go to the state legislature, which along with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, must sign off on any plan. The board’s report says implementing SustiNet could save the state between $226 million and $277 million a year, beginning […]

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Malloy to business: Prepare for sacrifice, but hope for the future

HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned businesses Friday they will face sacrifices to help close the state budget deficit, but added that a new emphasis on smart investments and cooperative government offers light at the end of Connecticut’s dark economic tunnel. “There is no cavalry — except us,” Malloy told nearly 600 business leaders […]

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Merrill: Changes needed to avoid another Election Day fiasco

The state’s new chief elections officer says she plans to promote changes to ensure that the Election Day fiasco of 2010, when polling places in Bridgeport and a half dozen other communities ran out of ballots on Election Day, doesn’t happen again. “There are some common sense solutions,” Secretary of the State Denise W. Merrill […]