U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Friday it would be “illegal” for President Donald J. Trump’s administration to cut off federal funding to sanctuary cities under an executive order issued Wednesday.
January 27, 2017 @ 1:55 pm
Posted inHealth, Politics
ACA architect talks about ‘bad GOP math,’ uncertain replacement
WASHINGTON —Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the Affordable Care Act, predicts shakier insurance exchanges with the repeal of the law. In this interview he doubts congressional Republicans can find a reasonable, effective replacement.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Conservative jurisprudence will stymie Trump’s immigration order
The day after the election of Donald Trump, I heard news reports around the state of panicked schoolchildren. These sons and daughters of undocumented immigrants believed mistakenly that with the rise of Trump came the imminent deportation of their parents. It was awful to hear. I felt a personal failing. We in the media are charged with informing the citizenry so the citizenry can chose the best leader. We failed at that, clearly, but we also failed to explain how government works. What these panicked youth did not understand is that the president is not a king.
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A mind-boggling tax revenue idea
On Jan. 26, Paul Hughes had a front page headline article in the Waterbury Republican-American titled “Local revenue-raisers.” In the article, dispensing with the property tax exemption on tax-exempt organizations was mentioned as a possibility for raising more revenue for the income-strapped state. One proposal — which apparently came from the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities […]
Posted inJustice
How a small-state AG’s office plays in the big leagues
Connecticut increasingly is finding itself out front in multi-state litigation waged by state attorneys general, leading a bipartisan coalition in a drug-pricing investigation – and 16 Democrats in an early challenge to the policies of President Trump.