WASHINGTON — Connecticut Democrats joined an effort to delay their party’s U.S. House leadership elections on Tuesday, and Rep. John Larson said he would be interested in being part of a new lineup.
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Air Force still doesn’t know what caused F-35 fire
WASHINGTON — The Air Force’s is continuing to investigate the cause of September’s fire in the rear area of an F-35 on a training mission in Idaho. It hasn’t ruled out problems with the jet fighter’s Pratt & Whitney engine.
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Malloy defends $35 million to hedge fund as investment
With $35 million in economic incentives for a Greenwich hedge fund manager, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy showed once again he is more willing to accept criticism for the price paid to keep high-paying jobs in Connecticut than to risk seeing them depart for New York.
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Malloy: Next budget will be very lean, without major tax hikes
Despite debt costs surging at unprecedented rates, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Tuesday his proposal for the next state budget would not feature any major tax hikes.
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State bonding chair Betty Boukus praised as advocate for all of CT
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the State Bond Commission honored Rep. Betty Boukus, who lost her re-election bid last week, as a tireless public servant whose oversight of state financing for capital projects has assisted every corner of the state.
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Larson’s tunnels: Big plan, even bigger challenge
Congressman John Larson’s proposal to build massive highway tunnels under Hartford is breathtaking in scope. It has stirred the blood of some public officials and business leaders. But the concept is so vast, complex and potentially expensive that many doubt it can be realized.
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At White House, Malloy joins Michelle Obama in pitch to Trump
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy made a post-election visit to the White House on Monday for a summit on veterans’ homelessness that ended with a wistful plea by First Lady Michelle Obama for the administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump to continue a successful local, state and federal partnership to address homelessness.
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Blumenthal: Lame duck need not be lame
WASHINGTON — Congress returns to work this week for a lame-duck session aimed at trying to set aside partisan differences long enough to keep the government from closing. Connecticut’s two Democratic senators also hope some of the state’s priorities will survive in the next six weeks.
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CT senators decry Trump’s appointment of Stephen Bannon
WASHINGTON — Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he is “deeply troubled” by the appointment of someone associated with a web site that is “antisemitic, racist and homophobic.”
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About 50 towns flipped in 2016 presidential vote
Nine towns flipped from supporting Mitt Romney in 2012 to Clinton this year— most notably in the southwest part of the state that has tended to lean Republican in previous elections. Donald Trump, on the other hand, won over about 40 towns in the middle of the state.
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CT joins lobbying fray over new federal education rule
WASHINGTON – Connecticut has joined a lobbying effort to change how federal money for schools with large populations of poor or disadvantaged students is distributed. The new regulation would bar school districts from “supplanting” the money they give to schools with poor students with federal money aimed at “supplementing” local funding.
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CT immigrants fear Trump-led backlash
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s policies on immigration are roiling the immigrant community in Connecticut, as they are across the nation. “Right now people don’t know what to expect,” said Carolina Bortolleto, an immigrant activist. “Everybody in the [immigrant] community feels things are dangerous and are scared.”
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Concerned about your ACA plan? Repeal may take awhile
While it’s impossible to know exactly what changes are coming to the individual market and how soon they’ll arrive, one thing is virtually certain: Nothing will happen immediately. Here are answers to questions you may have.
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CT Senate leaders blame Democratic losses on PACs, not policies
Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven, blames the rare loss of Democratic legislative seats in a presidential year on the targeted spending by business groups, not voter dissatisfaction with Hartford after two decades of Democratic control of the Connecticut General Assembly. His GOP counterpart’s view: “Hogwash.”
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CT lawmakers returning to D.C. with Dem Party in disarray
WASHINGTON — Connecticut’s members of the U.S. House, all Democrats who were re-elected by healthy margins in a bad year for their party, will return to work next week amid a new political reality and with a Democratic Party in disarray.