CT Attorney General William Tong vowed to sue over any challenge to birthright citizenship after President Donald Trump promised to end it.
Mark Pazniokas
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.
Posted inGovernment
In CT, some friction as MLK Day coincides with Trump inauguration
During an MLK Day celebration in West Hartford, a high school student dropped ‘the line of the morning’ about Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Posted inJustice
CT’s William Tong, other blue-state AGs brace for Trump 2.0
On Inauguration Day, Tong and his staff will be looking for executive orders that conflict with Connecticut laws or violate the Constitution.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
A coming debate over the supply, demand and politics of CT electric rates
Democrats’ ‘Ratepayers First Act,’ proposed Thursday, may be less a solution than a process by which they hope to find one.
Posted inMoney
Lamont assures CBIA that CT’s spending cap is ‘sacrosanct’
Gov. Ned Lamont told business leaders he won’t touch the spending cap, but left room for debate on other fiscal guardrails.
Posted inPolitics
CT opens AI Academy as Lamont, lawmakers differ on need to regulate
Gov. Ned Lamont and Sen. James Maroney welcomed the Online AI Academy, despite a clash over CT efforts to regulate generative AI.
Posted inGovernment
The last money train out of D.C. under Biden has $11.6M for CT
Some of the last federal transportation dollars from the Biden administration will expand rail service from New Haven to Hartford.
Posted inPolitics
Perillo to seek open Senate seat in special election
Rep. Jason Perillo said he will seek the nomination to succeed Sen. Kevin Kelly, and at least two Democrats are expected to run for a House seat.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Lamont intent on preserving his limited options on energy
The governor’s position on energy places him between the competing camps of clean and cost.
Posted inGovernment
Unlike Congress, a smooth opening day for CT General Assembly
Republican minority leaders nominated, seconded Democratic leaders. Minor discord over virtual meetings
Posted inPolitics
Lamont frames a 2025 agenda, stinting on solutions
Lamont sidestepped the coming budget debate and identified lowering costs of housing, electricity, health care and higher education as goals.
Posted inMoney
CT Gov. Lamont’s ‘north stars’ in 2025: opportunity and affordability
Gov. Ned Lamont will offer suggestions to open discussion, but he won’t likely address pressure to revise the state’s fiscal guardrails.
Posted inPolitics
Sen. Kelly, Rep. Conley expected to leave General Assembly
Kelly anticipates a nomination as a Superior Court judge; and Conley as an administrative judge on the Workers’ Compensation Commission.
Posted inPolitics
In public and private, time for Biden, Dodd to look back
Chris Dodd, the white-haired former senator from Connecticut, was in a wistful mood during a late afternoon chat Friday for many reasons, one being the 50th anniversary of the day he took his first oath as a member of Congress. Dodd spoke by phone from his law office a mile from the White House, a […]
Posted inPolitics
Lamont cheers success of paid family and medical leave
The same advocates applauding Lamont for the family leave program will soon lobby him to reconsider his resistance to CT’s spending limits.
