No one had stories of botched tattoos. No tales of a constituent who picked up hepatitis from a dirty needle. But then again, no legislator could quite explain how Connecticut never got around to regulating tattoos. “I was actually shocked,” said Rep. Al Adinolfi, R-Cheshire. It’s an oversight the House of Representatives moved to correct […]
May 9, 2013 @ 12:00 am
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Sea-level bill focuses on effect, not cause
Irene and Sandy were unwelcome visitors to coastal Connecticut, but their legacy is a strong consensus by the Connecticut General Assembly on the threat to public infrastructure posed by rising sea levels. The House voted 129 to 2 to give final passage Thursday to legislation requiring state officials to consider the necessity of mitigating sea-level […]
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Lieberman says Boston bombing could have been prevented
Washington –- Former Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman told a House panel Thursday that the Boston bombings could have been prevented. Speaking at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the April 15 terrorist attack that killed four people and injured more than 260, Lieberman said there were several opportunities to stop the attacks. “It would […]
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GOP stalls McCarthy’s nomination
Washington – A group of Republicans on Thursday boycotted a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee vote on the nomination of Gina McCarthy, President Obama’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency. That prevented a vote on the nomination in the panel and sets up a bitter floor fight over the nomination of McCarthy, who was […]
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A fiscal game of chicken and scapegoats
The legislature’s Republican minority won’t propose an alternative budget this year for the first time in six years, a political shift that the GOP and Democrats are now racing to define in the minds of voters. The GOP spin is that Democrats have irreparably ruined the state’s finances, at least for the short term. The […]
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Funding hampers sewage treatment upgrades post-Sandy
The Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement earlier this month that it was awarding $569 million for improvements to wastewater and drinking water treatment facilities damaged by Hurricane Sandy should have been great news here in Connecticut.
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Community health centers getting money to help people get covered
Connecticut’s community health centers are eligible to receive an estimated $1.55 million in federal funds to enroll people in health insurance, federal officials announced Thursday. The funds are part of $150 million being awarded to health centers across the country as part of the federal health reform law, the Affordable Care Act. The money is […]
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Murphy says foreign products threaten national security
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. joined a retired general and other lawmakers Wednesday to support a new report that says the Pentagon’s purchases overseas threaten U.S. national security. Sponsored in part by U.S. manufacturers, the report said reliance on raw materials and products from overseas could result in disruptions of the military’s supply chain. The study […]