WASHINGTON — The Senate is readying for a showdown over whether the nation needs another round of base closings – a move that could once again put Naval Submarine Base New London on the defensive.
Senate heads toward political fight over new base closing round
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Alexion reminds Malloy of the risks and rewards of corporate aid
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy picked the gleaming new New Haven offices and labs of Alexion Pharmaceuticals a year ago to highlight the returns Connecticut was getting on its economic development investments. On Tuesday, Malloy stood outside his office to answer questions about Alexion’s plans to slash jobs, close a Rhode Island production facility and relocate its headquarters to Massachusetts, while keeping a “Research Center of Excellence” in New Haven.
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CT budget clock winding down with no deal yet
As Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and his fellow Democrats in the legislature struggled Tuesday to reach agreement on a new two-year state budget, Republican lawmakers offered one more plan they hope might entice some disgruntled Democrats.
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Bhargava pitches herself as pro-business, progressive Democrat
Dita Bhargava began Tuesday to explore whether there is a place in the wide-open race for governor of Connecticut in 2018 for a Democratic woman who is a feminist and an ethnic minority with a Canadian upbringing, a Wall Street pedigree, a Greenwich address and pro-business inclinations.
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Nixing sleep apnea testing likely to cause deaths
Your daily commute just became more dangerous, thanks to President Trump. In his zeal to kill off unnecessary federal regulations, he has ordered cancellation of a plan to require mandatory sleep apnea testing for truck drivers and railroad engineers.
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CT’s hospitals see huge risk in Malloy’s fix for budget impasse
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s bid to end the state’s budget impasse hinges on convincing legislators to raise taxes on hospitals one more time — and trust supplemental payments to the industry won’t be cut afterward. Hospitals don’t like the gamble.
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Separating fact from fiction on state school aid
How the state funds public schools is so messy and complicated that dozens of parents, educators, legislators, the governor, and a Superior Court judge have characterized the setup as broken. However, some of the criticism that regularly surfaces is based on skewed perceptions of reality.
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Larson, Courtney ask Mnuchin for crumbling-foundation tax break
WASHINGTON – Reps. Joe Courtney and John Larson asked Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday to allow a tax break for thousands of Connecticut homeowners who suffer from crumbling foundations.
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CT’s Wade weighs in with Obamacare fixes
As a key U.S. Senate panel continues to seek a bipartisan fix for the Affordable Care Act, the Connecticut Insurance Department weighed in with its suggestions, including allowing people to buy a new, cheaper, “copper-level” plan with fewer benefits and higher out-of-pocket costs.
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Bipartisan CT budget talks run out of steam again
Sputtering bipartisan state budget talks, which hadn’t produced any unified plan over the past four months, appeared Monday to have broken down for good — around the same issues that have plagued them in recent years.
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Luisa DeLauro, pioneer pol, dies At 103
She was both a pioneer in the emergence of women as a force in local politics and a reminder of the Democratic Party’s survival-minded working-class past.
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Dems shy from sales tax increase in effort to end budget impasse
Democratic legislative leaders and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy made progress over the weekend toward a new plan to end the state budget standoff by week’s end — one that would abandon efforts to raise the primary sales tax rate of 6.35 percent.
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Students urge compromise on CT budget
As state government’s ongoing budget standoff prepared to enter a crucial week, 200 students and teachers from a regional high school in Burlington protested Sunday in front of the Capitol.
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Two storms, one fiscal, one real, threaten great harm
Two different but potentially catastrophic storms pre-occupied Connecticut’s thoughts last week – one a hurricane and the other a damaging fiscal deadline.
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A Connecticut ‘dreamer,’ committed to the fight, will not return to the shadows
Lucas Codognolla was born in Brazil, grew up as an average American child in Connecticut and is a UConn grad. But President Donald Trump has put his future and that of other undocumented young people in this country on shaky ground. In this Sunday conversation, we talk to him about how he’s handling the end of DACA, a program that has shielded 800,000 undocumented youth from deportation.