If you read political sites like this one, then you’ve probably heard or read stories this week about U.S. Rep. John D. Dingell, D-Michigan, the dean of Congress. On June 8, he will pass the late Sen. Robert Byrd as the longest-serving member in the history of Congress. He took office in 1955, the same […]
June 7, 2013
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Obama picks law professor for Connecticut federal court seat
Washington — President Obama on Friday nominated Quinnipiac University law professor Jeffrey A. Meyer, who is also a visiting professor at Yale Law School, as a judge of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut. Meyer was senior counsel to the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations’ Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq from 2004 to 2005, […]
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Childcare providers worry their money held hostage by politics
Early childcare providers are concerned the money they currently receive from the state to care for thousands of children is going to stop flowing in three weeks, because the state budget legislators transfers money to an office that doesn’t officially exist. The state budget shifts $127 million in funding from various state agencies into a new […]
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Free dental clinic draws hundreds to Bridgeport
Bridgeport – Beth Carter was in pain from the oral surgery. She’d spent the past night outside. She was on the verge of crying from the pain, except she couldn’t stop praising what she’d just gotten: her first dental care in nearly a decade. “I’ve been preparing for this day for a whole year,” said […]
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From Alaska to Hartford, a pol’s bitter fight over…$20,000?
Washington –- Hartford has become the unlikely setting for a story about Alaska politics, a bitter legal fight, honor and fancy stationery. Our saga begins in 2008 when a failed Republican candidate for an Alaska U.S. Senate seat decided not to pay a bill for the services of a Hartford–based political consulting firm owned by Tom D’Amore and John Doyle, two former aides to Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., because he didn’t like their work or the way he was treated.
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Lembo hopeful incentive transparency effort can be revived
State Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo’s bid to enhance transparency in state economic assistance to businesses fell short when the 2013 General Assembly session adjourned Wednesday. But the state’s chief fiscal watchdog said Friday he remains hopeful that some of the mandates he sought could be incorporated voluntarily into economic assistance programs. “My next set of […]
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Bipartisan support to Whitehead, state polka, and a second state song
It’s been a contentious legislative session here in Connecticut. But legislators were able to agree on a few things. For instance: German immigrant Gustave Whitehead was the first to fly in Bridgeport in 1901 — two years before the celebrated Wright brothers made so-called history in Kitty Hawk, N.C. So now, in a holiday known […]
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Malloy gives feds Sandy plan for approval
Washington — Gov. Dannel Malloy Friday sent the Department of Housing and Urban Development a plan that could bring $72 million to the state to help it continue to recover from Hurricane Sandy. HUD had allocated $72 million in Community Development Block grants to help Connecticut rebuild after the October super storm. But before receiving […]
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Statehood for Puerto Rico: now or never?
Puerto Ricans should be very interested in maneuvers happening right now in Congress and in Puerto Rico that could determine whether Puerto Rico will become the 51st state. Congress is the final and only authority on whether it will ever actually happen. Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, who is the elected but non-voting representative of Puerto […]