Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s U.S. Senate campaign will report next week it has raised $1.87 million from 2,300 donors since Blumenthal became a candidate January 6. Mike Cacace, Blumenthal’s campaign chairman, said in an email Thursday that the campaign has nearly $1.6 million cash on hand. The first quarter filing deadline for Senate candidates is April […]

Lisa Wilson-Foley, a Simsbury businesswoman, announced her candidacy late Tuesday for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. Wilson-Foley has owned 10 small businesses in the past 20 years, half of them in the health-care field. She currently owns the Blue Fox Run golf course in Avon. “It is time for me to step forward and […]

The state House of Representatives voted unanimously Wednesday for a bill that would extend group health insurance benefits for the unemployed from 18 to 30 months under the state’s “COBRA” law. It now goes to the Senate. The federal COBRA law, named for the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, allows workers at businesses with 20 […]

Transcripts of the testimony of Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz, being questioned under oath about her qualifications to be attorney general, have been released by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s office. The daily transcripts, covering 10 hours of testimony over three days, can be seen here, here and here. A video of her deposition is […]

Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced today she is nominating Superior Judge Stuart D. Bear to the Appellate Court Bear, 65, a trial judge since 2003, was a lawyer at Zeldes, Needle & Cooper for 30 years. He received his undergraduate and law degrees from Harvard, graduating with honors. He will succeed Chief Judge Joseph P. Flynn, […]

Judge Alexandra D. DiPentima is the new chief judge of the Appellate Court, effective immediately, Supreme Court Chief Justice Chase T. Rogers announced today. DiPentima will succeed Judge Joseph P. Flynn, who took senior status effective March 26, 2010. The appointment was announced in this statement released by the court: “Judge DiPentima is an excellent […]

Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s promised veto has prompted House Democrats to cancel today’s vote on the deficit mitigation plan approved early today by the Senate. Doug Whiting, a spokesman for House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan, D-Meriden, said that House leaders decided around 9 a.m. there was no point to bring the plan to a vote, […]

The Connecticut Supreme Court today at 11:30 a.m. is releasing a long-awaited decision in an education-funding lawsuit brought to establish that children have a right to an “adequate” education, not merely a free and public education. The decision will be accompanied by two dissenting and concurring opinions, indicating a deeply divided court. The justices have […]

A temporary employee who worked at the state Office of Policy and Management is a suspect in the theft of personal information about applicants to a furnace rebate program from 2008 through this month, OPM said today. The state learned of the theft Friday from Hartford police, who have a potential suspect, said Robert Genuario, […]

U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, who had been described in national press accounts as undecided, said today he will vote this weekend to pass health-care reform, a potentially pivotal issue in his re-election campaign. “The message from the people I represent is clear – health care costs and health insurance practices are out of […]

U.S. Rep. John B. Larson, D-1st District, said today that he has been assured by David Hess, the president of Pratt & Whitney, that the jet-engine manufacturer is staying in Connecticut, despite public complaints by its parent, United Technologies Corp., about the cost of doing business in the state. “I am pleased to hear Pratt […]

Minority Republicans in the state House of Representatives called Thursday for lawmakers to cancel “longevity” bonuses due next month to 4,000 senior state employees. House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero, R-Norwalk, also said Gov. M. Jodi Rell should ask unionized state employees to forfeit their longevity pay as state government grapples with a growing budget […]

Democrat Dannel P. Malloy said today he will formally become a candidate for governor at noon on Wednesday, while Republican Larry DeNardis is making it official Thursday. Malloy is keeping things informal, holding a press conference outside the State Elections Enforcement Commission after he files his paperwork. DeNardis is announcing at 10:30 a.m Thursday at […]

The General Assembly’s labor committee today narrowly approved legislation that would require businesses with more than 50 employees to offer up to five paid sick days. The committee voted 6-4 for a bill praised by the Working Families Party as a matter of social justice and detested by the Connecticut Business and Industry Association as […]