DOJ says Aetna left ACA marketplaces in reaction to merger suit

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Is the F-35 stealth fighter vulnerable to a Trump tweet?

Avatar photo by Mark Pazniokas

One of Connecticut’s U.S. senators insists he won’t jump at every tweet by President-elect Donald J. Trump. But the other says he could not ignore what he took as Trump’s suggestion Monday that production of the F-35 fighter, the source of thousands of job in Connecticut and air superiority for the U.S. and its allies, might be reduced or abandoned.

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Another quarter-billion dollars won’t fix the XL Center or the City of Hartford

by State Sen. Joe Markley

If someone can make a go of the Hartford civic center, they have my best wishes, but I’d put no more state money into the effort. We simply can’t afford to increase our bonded indebtedness by another quarter-billion dollars — the price tag (minus the cost of additional land acquisition, and likely overruns) for renovation of the facility.

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Don’t shift Connecticut’s unfunded liability problem onto our children

by Jonathan Pelto

Eroding revenues, red ink and poor fiscal management continue to undermine Connecticut’s state budget. Unaltered, the present approach will make it increasingly difficult, even impossible, for our children and future generations to have a state government that fulfills its fundamental and constitutional duty to provide for a healthier, safer and more equitable society. … But the problem is about to get far worse.

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