March 7, 2013 @ 12:00 am

As the General Assembly’s leaders negotiate gun-control legislation, the firearms industry is running commercials featuring three Connecticut makers of the AR-15 rifle, underscoring their importance to the economy with an implicit threat they could leave for friendlier political climes. “Connecticut’s our home. We grew up here,” Dennis Veilleux, the president of Colt’s Manufacturing, says in […]

Long-simmering resentment on the part of a group of distinguished professors at the four Connecticut State Universities toward the University of Connecticut has boiled over in a letter to state officials blasting what they say is the latest example of inequity — a proposal by the governor to increase funding to UConn. All 12 “CSU […]

Washington — Congress took its first, halting steps toward gun control Thursday as a divided Senate panel approved a bill that would increase federal penalties on trafficking and then began debate on more contentious issues. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-7 to approve the gun trafficking bill, which would also toughen penalties on “‘straw purchases” […]

By: Georgia Lobb Eerily following the story we just posted on the deadliest roads in Connecticut for pedestrians, two men were killed in separate incidents that happened on Saturday and Monday. One accident was on the road that’s been identified as Connecticut’s most dangerous for pedestrians: Post Road. 68- year old Bruce Tabackman was crossing […]

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy’s latest front in his war against the National Rifle Association has taken the form of a strongly worded letter to NASCAR CEO Brian France, demanding he reverse a decision to call a new race the “NRA 500.” NASCAR and the Texas Motor Speedway have completed a deal to make the NRA […]