Karen Hobert Flynn was president of Common Cause and an architect of Connecticut’s groundbreaking campaign finance reforms.
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Dive Deeper: 2023 Legislative Session · Ned Lamont · CT Congressional Delegation
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Labor asks CT to regulate Amazon warehouse quotas
A bill aimed at regulating Amazon’s use of surveillance of warehouse workers drew dramatic testimony from labor and silence from Amazon.
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CT bill proposes relief from ‘coerced debt’ for domestic violence victims
CT lawmakers are considering a bill that would help victims whose abusive partners incurred debt in their names, similar to identify theft.
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Connecticut confronted as originator of New England witch trials
Salem gets the notoriety, but CT’s witch trials came 45 years earlier, and descendants of the hanged want apologies and exonerations.
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14 arrested at CT Capitol protest
Members of a union lay down in the CT Legislative Office Building to protest challenges in obtaining a stipend for health coverage.
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Democrats hold three CT House seats in special elections
CT Democrats said they won elections for House seats opened by the death of Quentin Williams and resignations of Dan Fox and Edwin Vargas Jr.
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Lamont crosses aisle, nominates Bryan Cafferelli as DCP boss
confirmed by the General Assembly, Cafferelli will become the second Republican member of the Democratic governor’s cabinet.
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CT will fill 3 state House seats in Tuesday special election. Here’s what to know
CT voters in Hartford, West Hartford, Middletown and Stamford will vote for their next state house representatives on Tuesday.
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In public hearing, CT residents debate framework for early voting
Dozens of CT residents publicly testified in support of in-person early voting at a public hearing for the measure on Wednesday.
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CT ‘Parents Bill of Rights’ gets broad support in public hearing
In a public hearing Wednesday, residents asked lawmakers to pass legislation that would guarantee rights to non-English-speaking parents.
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CT rent cap bill draws hours of testimony, sometimes heated
The CT rent cap bill would cap annual rent hikes at 4% plus the consumer price index, but the debate outlined broader philosophical issues.
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Lamont administration takes aim at hospital and drug costs
Gov. Ned Lamont rolled out two bills that put a free-market governor at odds with Big Pharma and the hospital industry, a major CT employer.
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Legislators want change at MDC, entity dominated by Bill DiBella
A legislative committee held a public hearing Friday on a bill that would increase state oversight over the MDC by requiring annual audits.
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Jobless benefits for strikers in CT? Idea dividing labor committee
Sen. Rob Sampson and Sen. Julie Kushner share a microphone and little else on the labor committee as they debate jobless benefits and more.
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UConn cools budget rhetoric but presses Lamont for more money
UConn president Radenka Maric cooled her fight with Gov. Ned Lamont while maintaining that his budget shortchanges the university.