On election night, Connecticut voters helped Democrats make the GOP an endangered species in New England. To try to rebuild the GOP in the Northeast, the national Republican Party put its hopes on Linda McMahon, Republican candidate for a Connecticut U.S. Senate seat, and Andrew Roraback, another Republican who ran for the 5th District congressional. […]

Hartford — In the year of the Super PAC, congressional and presidential elections across the country are smashing records in campaign spending, and Connecticut’s races are no exception. As of a week ago, $74 million had been spent by candidates and outside parties in Connecticut on races for Congress, close to the record set in […]

Farmington — For Republican Andrew Roraback, the last lap in his year-long bid for Congress includes a lot of stops for breakfasts, at least four of them Sunday. Roraback’s Sunday began at breakfasts held by Republican town committees in Kent and Thomaston, followed by more breakfasts hosted by the Farmington Fire Department and Wolcott Lion’s […]

Norwalk — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Saturday he thinks the Obama administration will declare most of Connecticut, with the exception of Hartford County, a major disaster area, opening the door to a variety of aid. The governor was in Norwalk and Bridgeport Saturday with Lieut. Gov. Nancy Wyman, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Rep. Jim Himes, […]

Washington — Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said Thursday he’s not ready to meet requests from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the governors of New Jersey and New York for 100 percent reimbursement for all expenses associated with Hurricane Sandy. “We don’t see the need for that yet,” Fugate said. FEMA can recommend […]

Victor Bolden, New Haven’s corporation counsel, says that the city has plenty of ballots for the general election next Tuesday and that Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s legal challenge to the city’s electoral system is merely a campaign stunt. “This is spending taxpayer money and wasting time,”  Bolden said. “This is what happens in the […]

Washington — The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it has enough money to respond to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy. But others say more money will be needed, and storm victims may not be able to get all the help they need — unless Congress steps in. Securing more money for FEMA to help […]

Washington — Hurricane Sandy’s romp along the East Coast did more than flood homes and streets and down trees and power lines, it also upended political races in Connecticut and other states and could even impact voting. Like President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, Connecticut politicians have put their campaigns on hold — although […]

Washington — President Obama has fast-tracked approval of a declaration of a major disaster in four storm-hit coastal counties — and two Connecticut tribes — to allow their residents to apply for a variety of federal aid. Under the declaration announced late Tuesday, residents of Fairfield, New Haven, Middlesex and New London counties and the […]

Washington — Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said Monday that Hurricane Sandy is speeding up, but on an expected track to make landfall later today. He also said he’s asked FEMA’s general council to assess what FEMA could do if Sandy impacts the ability of storm-tossed states to hold general elections Nov. 6 […]

Washington — Even before Hurricane Sandy spilled a drop of rain on Connecticut, President Obama granted Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s request emergency help late Sunday. However, he stopped short of granting Malloy’s request for 100 percent reimbursement of the cost of debris-removal and repairs of public roads and buildings. In a lengthy letter to the […]