The nearly $10 million in state stem cell research grants awarded this year will fund researchers at three Connecticut universities exploring topics including chronic pain, tissue engineering and ways to develop vaccine-like treatments for cancer. The grants represent the seventh installment of the state’s 10-year, $100 million commitment to funding research on stem cells, which […]
June 13, 2013 @ 12:00 am
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Jepsen to appeal rebuke of Rowland in labor case to U.S. Supreme Court
Attorney General George Jepsen, a former union lawyer and Democratic state chairman, said Thursday he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a union victory that came at the expense of an old Republican nemesis, former Gov. John G. Rowland.
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UConn analysis: Gun laws don’t drive away firearms makers
The efforts of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the legislature to tighten gun restrictions elicited threats from gun and ammunition manufacturers to leave the Nutmeg State for more firearms-friendly states. But an analysis unveiled Thursday in the University of Connecticut’s quarterly economic journal found no connection nationally between those restrictions and business migration. “The key […]
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Following complaint, Bridgeport superintendent promises to implement school panels
Bridgeport Superintendent Paul Vallas has signed a resolution with the local teachers’ union for the “successful implementation” of the school panels mandated by state law aimed at increasing teacher and parental involvement in the lowest-performing schools. The resolution follows Vallas and Gary Peluchette, the president of the Bridgeport Education Association, meeting in Hartford with the state’s […]