Earlier this month was the 47th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, one of the most important and infamous moments in U.S. civil rights history. The story is familiar to many of us: a peaceful march in support of black voting rights ends in violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. Local policemen attack nonviolent […]
March 21, 2012 @ 12:00 am
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Coleman ‘optimistic’ of Senate repealing death penalty
A bill repealing the death penalty cleared the Judiciary Committee on a 24-19 vote Wednesday night and was headed to the Senate, where a proponent, Sen. Eric D. Coleman, D-Bloomfield, said he was “very optimistic” about winning passage. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is committed to signing a repeal bill similar to one vetoed by Gov. […]
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Connecticut lawmakers say Wall Street to blame for high gas prices
Washington — With their constituents’ anger on the rise over high gasoline prices, Connecticut lawmakers say Wall Street is to blame and want the Obama administration to take action against speculators. “What we need is tough enforcement against speculation that is contributing to the crushing prices at the pump,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. The […]
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Democrats’ gas tax pledge leaves them in a tight fiscal mess
Democratic state legislators this week wedged themselves between a fuel pump and a fiscal hard place — and there may be no easy way out. Trying to outmaneuver Republicans on the sticky issue of rising gas prices, Democrats pledged to cap a wholesale fuel tax, announcing Wednesday it could be approved next week. But because […]
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Tenure reform supported in Quinnipiac poll
Connecticut voters support Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s push for teacher tenure reform and Sunday liquor sales, while the state is evenly divided on the governor’s job performance, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. The poll also found across-the-board voter support for the legalization of medical marijuana and strong opposition to abolishing the death […]
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Malloy clarifies the ‘only thing you have to do is show up’ comment about teachers
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday offered a more polite take on how teachers earn tenure. His previous comment seemed to scold the profession, by saying all teachers in the state have to do to keep their job is show up. “In my state of the state speech I used some words to describe tenure […]
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Women cooler than men to our alpha-male governor
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s public personna is confident, if not aggressive. And that seems to be playing better with men than women. The Quinnipiac poll out today — our full story is available here — has an anomaly: Men are evenly divided on the governor, whose approval rating crept higher again, but women are negative. […]