The protests in pictures: Marching in CT and the nation’s capital
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by Mark Pazniokas, CT Mirror
January 21, 2017
Mark is the Capitol Bureau Chief and a co-founder of CT Mirror. He is a frequent contributor to WNPR, a former state politics writer for The Hartford Courant and Journal Inquirer, and contributor for The New York Times.
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