The legislature’s Democratic and Republican leaders now plan to meet Wednesday to discuss the parameters of a gun violence bill likely to be adopted this month in response to the mass shooting in Newtown. Spokesmen for House Speaker J. Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, and House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, said the legislature’s top […]
March 5, 2013
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Sequester forces Connecticut lawmakers to trim office budgets
Washington –– Connecticut lawmakers are poring over their office budgets, forced by the sequester’s across-the-board cuts to reduce their spending by tens of thousands of dollars. The salaries of the members of Congress are protected from the sequester’s cuts that went into effect on Friday to reduce the federal budget by $85 billion. But the […]
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Kids exercise and learn when food is ‘whoa,’ ‘slow’ or ‘go!’
Yaleris Diaz, 8, raced across the gym from one Hula Hoop on the floor to another. She arrived safely before the music stopped and looked around with a smile on her face. This exuberant game of “musical hoops” was her favorite among several she and some classmates played recently at the Burns School in Hartford. […]
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Mental Health First Aid: psychology’s CPR
Middletown — Mary Botti gave her class a scenario: Someone in front of you is stressed, maybe having a panic attack for the first time. What do you say? The students — adults from a variety of backgrounds — consulted a handout with sample responses. Several hours into their two-day training, the class had little […]
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Mental health panel makes four recommendations
The bipartisan panel examining mental health issues agreed Tuesday to four recommendations that could become part of legislation intended to respond to the mass shooting at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. Legislative leaders are crafting a bill to address mental health, gun violence and school security. It’s expected to be taken up in the coming […]
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Sharkey is tested on guns, budget and discipline
A dozen hours after his day began in Norwalk with a breakfast meeting, House Speaker J. Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, slumped at his desk in Hartford, bleary-eyed and just a little punchy. Another visitor was about to push him to answer the question everyone seems to be asking. J. Brendan Sharkey It was the question that […]
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Possible Snow Storm To Hit Fairfield County This Week
By: Georgia Lobb Prepare for a possibly delayed commute later this week. There may be a snow storm coming. Today you might have noticed how deceivingly cold it was outside. Well, things could get worse between now and Thursday, according to the CT News weather blog. Photo courtesy of The National Weather Service The National […]
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Murphy blasts NRA for ‘radical’ agenda
Continuing his campaign against the National Rifle Association, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., on Tuesday issued a report detailing the gun group’s attempts to loosen gun laws in state capitols. As part of what it calls the NRA’s “radical legislative agenda,” the report cites an Indiana law that allows its citizens to fire in self-protection, even […]
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The worst state budget Mayor DeStefano has ever seen?
New Haven Mayor John DeStefano has seen a lot of proposed state budgets during his nearly 20-year tenure. So is this year’s budget being proposed Gov. Dannel P. Malloy the worst he’s ever seen? “Let me be very clear, I have never had a budget that increases taxes in New Haven by 4-and-a-half mills from the […]
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No bipartisan consensus on gun control
A bipartisan task force on gun violence concluded its work Tuesday without consensus or clarity on how the General Assembly should change Connecticut gun laws in response to the massacre of 26 children and women at Sandy Hook. Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate now plan to meet Wednesday to see if […]