A reporter for the Jewish Daily Forward writes about the ethics of how much detail to include in stories about the deaths of children in Newtown. The mother of one child, who was shot in the face, told the journalist why she insisted on seeing her son’s body, why she described his wounds in detail […]

The Connecticut General Assembly’s task force on gun violence began work Friday with a moment of silence, a pledge of bipartisanship and a plea to pay special heed to the voices and needs of Newtown. Public hearings will begin next week in Hartford on how the state should change its laws and policies on guns, […]

Former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman is advising the transition of an ad hoc Sandy Hook fund to a formal charity that will decide how to dispense $8 million donated since the shooting deaths of 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary a month ago. “I am honored to be asked to provide counsel to […]

Should Connecticut continue to stock its woodlands with 17,000 adult pheasants for the pleasure of hunters? Will there be another effort to ban the use of lead sinkers by anglers? How about permitting Sunday hunting? In years past, those might be the hottest issues facing the Sportsmen’s Caucus of the General Assembly. Not this year, […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today embraced President Obama’s initiative on guns as a “critical first step” in curbing gun violence, and he promised to make Connecticut a national leader on the issue. Malloy declined an invitation to be at the White House for Obama’s announcement, but he is addressing the U.S. Conference of Mayors on […]

Connecticut’s mayors and first selectmen tried Wednesday to broaden the gun-control conversation beyond the shocking circumstances of the Newtown mass murders to the below-the-radar realities of every-day gun violence. The shootings of 26 children and educators by a 20-year-old with a semiautomatic rifle is fueling an unprecedented push for new legislation in state capitals and […]

Luke Bronin, a Rhodes Scholar with undergraduate and law degrees from Yale, a master’s from Oxford and a resume packed with high-level jobs in government, was introduced Tuesday as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s new general counsel. Bronin will succeed Andrew J. McDonald, who is awaiting confirmation by the General Assembly as a justice of the […]

Luke Bronin, a Rhodes Scholar with undergraduate and law degrees from Yale, a master’s from Oxford and a resume packed with high-level jobs in government, was introduced Tuesday as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s new general counsel. Bronin will succeed Andrew J. McDonald, who is awaiting confirmation by the General Assembly as a justice of the […]

Connecticut’s governor, top Senate leader and gun-control advocates praised the broad changes to gun laws adopted Tuesday by New York in response to the Newtown shooting tragedy, calling them a strong starting point for reform. In praising the quick action, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he had no regrets that Connecticut was moving slower than […]

Tee it up for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, and he will swing. He was asked today about the shooting app for kids with coffin-shaped targets released by the NRA yesterday on the one-month anniversary of the Newtown shootings. His answer was a multiple choice: “How dumb can you get? How insulting can you be? How outrageous […]

Cigarette lighter in hand, Robert Crook walked the stone floors of Connecticut’s Legislative Office Building on Monday, drawing glances from gun-control lobbyists. For 33 years, Crook has been their nemesis. He was killing time before a meeting with Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., the leader of the House Republican minority. In another state and another time, […]

Hartford — In the 11 months and 14 days before the nation reeled from the mass shooting deaths of 26 children and educators in Newtown, 21 men and women were killed in Hartford, drawing little notice. In all, the city registered 22 murders for the year, down from the previous years. The homicides were incremental, […]

This dispatch is from our AG and consumer protection commissioner: Viral emails warning that cell phone numbers will soon be made public, that telemarketing companies will begin placing sales calls to cell phones and that customers will be charged for these calls are not true, Attorney General George Jepsen and Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner […]

As the Obama administration hurries to develop new federal gun restrictions, the Connecticut General Assembly is placing gun legislation on a fast track in the wake of the Newtown school shootings, creating a special committee with an eye toward passage of some legislation in February. House Speaker J. Brendan Sharkey, D-Hamden, said the committee, whose […]