Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland came to Hartford to headline a Connecticut Democratic fundraising dinner Friday night, but he will go home with checks for a campaign to save the gay marriage law he signed on March 1. O’Malley, 49, the chairman of the Democratic Governor’s Association, said the fundraiser was quickly arranged by his […]

The Senate campaign of former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays got a boost Thursday in a Quinnipiac University poll that shows him pulling to within 9 percentage points of former wrestling executive Linda McMahon among Republicans and running even with leading Democrats in general-election matchups. The results feed into Shays’ two main talking points: He is competitive […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s public personna is confident, if not aggressive. And that seems to be playing better with men than women. The Quinnipiac poll out today — our full story is available here — has an anomaly: Men are evenly divided on the governor, whose approval rating crept higher again, but women are negative. […]

Connecticut voters support Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s push for teacher tenure reform and Sunday liquor sales, while the state is evenly divided on the governor’s job performance, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. The poll also found across-the-board voter support for the legalization of medical marijuana and strong opposition to abolishing the death […]

A bill repealing the death penalty cleared the Judiciary Committee on a 24-19 vote Wednesday night and was headed to the Senate, where a proponent, Sen. Eric D. Coleman, D-Bloomfield, said he was “very optimistic” about winning passage. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is committed to signing a repeal bill similar to one vetoed by Gov. […]

In a bipartisan committee vote Tuesday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy prevailed on lifting the ban on Sunday liquor sales, but fell short of the sweeping reforms he proposed in January on price and competition. The question now is will Malloy declare victory and move on, or will he direct his administration to continue lobbying for […]

A legislator who used to be a cop is trying to force the Hartford Advocate and other alternative papers to ban ads for the sex trade by making publishers criminally liable if an ad leads to an encounter with an underage prostitute. The constitutionality of such legislation is untested, with a crusading anti-prostitution author, Raymond […]

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal attended a news conference Monday to support a bill promoted by anti-prostitution crusader Raymond Bechard — the same man Blumenthal sued as attorney general over allegations of charities fraud in 2009. Was Blumenthal unaware of the connection? Or, as Bechard suggested, did the senator’s presence signify that the still-pending lawsuit was […]

Hartford — Bill Clinton returned Friday night to the Bushnell stage, where he debated Bob Dole in 1996 on the way to an easy victory for a second term in the White House. “We were civil, and we committed what I think would be mass heresy today,” said Clinton, a guest of the 20-year-old public-speaking […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered a modest dig Friday at the General Law Committee over its intention to revise his liquor reform bill and keep minimum-pricing laws on the books. “I am pro-consumer,” Malloy said. “Sometimes I get disappointed there aren’t more pro-consumer advocates on this issue and others in state government.” But Malloy was […]