Hartford — If all it takes to get you into an electric vehicle is a reliable network of charging stations, then Gov. Dannel P. Malloy opened the Connecticut International Auto Show Friday with a pitch that may sell some cars in 2014. Yes, the administration is promising an end to range anxiety.
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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A struggle to balance justice and redemption for juvenile offenders in Connecticut
The 70-year-old man rose slowly when his name was called. Before taking a seat at the microphone, he carefully unwrapped two framed photographs, one of a smiling 14-year-old boy, the other of a woman in her 40s. He placed them before the Connecticut Sentencing Commission. “My name is John Cluny,” he said. “I’ve been up […]
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Pitney Bowes gets aid package from Malloy administration
Connecticut is providing up to $27 million in loans, grants and tax credits under the state’s “First Five” program to Pitney Bowes, helping to finance an expansion that will add 200 jobs to the company’s work force of 1,600 over the next five years, the state announced Wednesday. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy typically holds press […]
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Malloy rebukes White House over Obamacare
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy delivered a calculated rebuke to the White House Wednesday for the botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act, an issue threatening to dog Malloy and other Democrats facing re-election in 2014.
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Lembo files for re-election
Comptroller Kevin Lembo is filing papers Tuesday to create a candidate committee, a legal step that makes him a candidate for re-election in 2014 and allows him to begin raising $100 in qualifying contributions for public financing.
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Malloy names Daily to Siting Council
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has named former state Sen. Eileen Daily, D-Westbrook, to the Connecticut Siting Council. The panel has jurisdiction over the siting of power plants, transmission lines, hazardous waste facilities and telecommunications infrastructure. Members are paid $200 per meeting. Daily, who was the co-chairwoman of the Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, did not […]
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Connecticut ranks 25th in gender wage gap in U.S.
Women in Connecticut earn about 78 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap that ranks the state 25th in the United States, according to a task force report issued Tuesday that suggests no easy solutions to equalizing pay. “Understanding this inequity is not a simple matter,” the report said. “Many factors contribute […]
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Soucy sentenced to halfway house in campaign scandal
New Haven – A federal judge Monday imposed a sentence of six months in a halfway house on Ray Soucy, the politically connected union official who coached smoke-shop owners to make illegal campaign contributions to keep their business tax-free, then helped the FBI secretly gather audio and video evidence against them. U.S. District Judge Janet […]
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Donovan scandal leaves questions, not reforms
When U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton imposes sentence Monday on Ray Soucy, the self-described political fixer who became an FBI cooperator, she is likely writing the coda to a campaign-finance scandal that tilted a congressional race and tainted the Connecticut General Assembly. Barring unexpected developments, the federal investigation of an attempt to bribe former […]
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A chance meeting on the way to Dec. 14
It’s a small state, and discussions about Sandy Hook and the Second Amendment rarely remain abstract, even at a University of Connecticut School of Law forum with the title, “Up in Arms: The Second Amendment in the Modern Republic.” Gov. Dannel P. Malloy delivered introductory remarks Friday, then briskly departed to applause, ready to begin […]
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Malloy honored in D.C. for overcoming learning disability
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who overcame dyslexia to graduate from law school and launch a political career as Stamford’s mayor and Connecticut’s governor, will be honored Thursday night in Washington, D.C., by the Lab School with a “2013 Outstanding Achiever with Learning Disabilities Award.” The Lab School specializes in using alternate means to educate children with […]
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Tanya Hughes can drop ‘interim’ from CHRO title
Tanya Hughes, who had been the interim leader of the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, has been formally appointed as executive director of the civil-rights agency. “The Commission voted both unanimously and enthusiastically to appoint Tanya Hughes as executive director because our goal is to solidify our position as the nation’s leading governmental […]
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Blumenthal to co-sponsor Women’s Reproductive Health Act
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and five other members of Congress will outline a legislative response Wednesday to state attempts to limit access to abortion services: the “Women’s Reproductive Health Act of 2013.” Their press conference will be streamed live 2:30 p.m. It can be viewed by clicking here.
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Foley tweaks Malloy with TV ad — in NYC
He’s not an official candidate yet, but Republican Tom Foley on Monday rolled out the first television commercial of the 2014 race for governor. With a big wink to the voters and media back in Connecticut, it airs exclusively – and ever-so-briefly — on cable in New York City. To make a point about Connecticut’s […]
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Gay rights in Connecticut: big impact, few cases
Connecticut’s passage of a law banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation has produced just a trickle of cases over the past two decades, not the flood of frivolous complaints predicted by opponents then and cited as a reason now to block a federal law. The state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities has […]
