You’ll be hearing about this tidbit from Republicans on the campaign trail in ’14: Connecticut led the nation last year in the percentage of outbound moves, as measured in the annual survey by Atlas Van Lines. Sixty percent of interstate moves involving Connecticut customers were outbound, followed by 59 percent for New York and Indiana. […]
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.
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Malloy works to appease teachers in 2014
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s calculated decision to make a public show of challenging unionized teachers two years ago still dogs the first-term Democratic governor as he prepares for a 2014 re-election he cannot win without support from organized labor.
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Malloy names first woman to oversee public safety in Connecticut
Dora B. Schriro, who was named Monday as the first woman to oversee the Connecticut State Police and other state public-safety functions, has a national profile as the New York City correction commissioner and a former special adviser to the U.S. secretary of homeland security.
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Foley uses Iraq in fundraising appeal to vets
Republican Tom Foley is using his civilian service as President George W. Bush’s director of private-sector development in Iraq as a hook for a fundraising letter to veterans, one of the end-of-year flurry of solicitations from politicians, including one from a U.S. senator not facing re-election until 2016. The goal is to pump the numbers […]
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Bradford to retire as public safety commissioner
Reuben F. Bradford, a former state trooper and NFL security director who is Connecticut’s first black public-safety chief, will retire Feb. 1 as commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, the agency that includes the Connecticut State Police. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office announced Bradford’s plans Thursday. Bradford, 67, returned to a demanding job in […]
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Gun owners see choices in CT governor’s race as bad or worse
When the Connecticut Citizens Defense League endorsed Republican Tom Foley in the 2010 race for governor, it went unnoticed. The gun owners’ group was just a year old, and gun control barely registered as an issue in Foley’s close contest with Democrat Dannel P. Malloy. Now, it is in rapid-growth mode, with a membership that […]
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CT GOP struggles, while Dems bank $550K
As the Connecticut Democratic Party thrived, the state Republican Party ran a deficit in its federal account in November, ending the month with just $7,107 in cash and a debt of $7,513, the latest indicator of a GOP in dire straits on the eve of a statewide election year. Finance reports filed over the weekend […]
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Malloy road-tests a stump speech for 2014
The soft opening of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s unannounced re-election campaign is under way. Over the late summer and fall, Malloy has honed the elements of a 2014 stump speech, road-testing themes and images calculated to create a quickening sense of progress after decades of stagnation.
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Merrill files papers for re-election campaign
Secretary of the State Denise Merrill created a candidate committee Wednesday, becoming an official candidate for re-election in 2014. Merrill said she once again will participate in the voluntary Citizens Election Program, which will limit her to maximum contributions of $100 in return for public financing. It was a low-key launch for the first-term Democrat. […]
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Metro-North promises regular service by April
In a report delivered Tuesday to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Metro-North promised a return to normal weekday service on the New Haven line by April, nearly a year after a derailment near Bridgeport. The report was issued in response to a demand by Malloy in December for the commuter railroad’s response to a number of […]
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A psychiatrist’s diagnosis: Prosecutor’s report taught us nothing about Adam Lanza
Harold Schwartz, a Hartford psychiatrist and member of the governor’s Sandy Hook Advisory Commission, is unimpressed with the Danbury State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky’s report on the Newtown school massacre. In a piece published by the Huffington Post, Schwartz pushes back at those who say the answer to Newtown, if there is one, rests with the […]
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Malloy mixes politics, nutrition, jobs on visit
It’s not every day that a governor promotes a startup company’s line of nutrition supplements. Then again, it’s not every day that a nutrition-supplement company promotes a first-term governor’s re-election.
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A Sandy Hook moment
Earlier this week, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he is like a lot of people when it comes to the Sandy Hook tragedy. At times, he finds himself overcome, usually in private. One of those moments unfolded in public Friday. The trigger was a question about his plans to remember the anniversary of the Sandy […]
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Would-be NHL owners talking to Malloy
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday that he has told two groups interested in acquiring NHL franchises that Connecticut would be interested in providing a home, though not at the cost of building a new arena totally on the taxpayer’s dime.
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Malloy, a year after Sandy Hook
It was dusk, nearly quitting time. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy leaned back in a wooden captain’s chair, about to end a week’s worth of unwanted interviews, all about a date that cannot pass too quickly, the looming anniversary of Sandy Hook.
