There are things — nonviolent things — people can do to address the issues raised by the racial disturbances in Watts in 1965 and Hartford in 1967-1970, and this week in Ferguson, Mo.
Op-Ed: There are nonviolent ways to defend against racism
Posted inPolitics
Foley wins cross-endorsement from Independent Party
WATERTOWN – The Independent Party voted to cross-endorse Republican Tom Foley for governor at a caucus Tuesday night, casting folded paper ballots in a plastic jar that once held H.K. Anderson peanut butter filled nuggets.
Posted inMoney, Politics
Advocates to candidates: Find money for Connecticut’s transportation network
A coalition of nearly three dozen transportation advocates challenged Connecticut gubernatorial candidates to support increased funding to overhaul the state’s aging infrastructure – even if it likely means tax increases or tolls.
Posted inEducation
Tragedy prompts call to raise awareness of ‘Safe Haven’ for CT infants
A coalition of state legislators, officials and child advocates pledged Tuesday to develop a new promotional campaign for Connecticut’s “Safe Haven” law in response to last week’s tragic discovery of an abandoned, dead infant in an East Hartford trash can.
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Tom Foley ad labels governor as ‘Desperate Dan Malloy’
Tom Foley’s new television ad is both an attack on Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s record and an attempt to inoculate himself against Malloy’s efforts last week to define Foley as tone-deaf to the concerns of working-class Connecticut voters.
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Map: GOP primary turnout, 2010 vs. 2014
Turnout for the GOP primary election was only 20.8 percent this year — significantly lower than 2010, when 29.8 percent of registered Republicans showed up to vote. Virtually every town had a poorer turnout this year than in 2010.
Posted inPolitics
After Newtown, both gun-control and gun rights groups growing
Since the shootings in Newtown, a resurgence of the gun control movement is challenging the status quo. Nonprofit organizations on each side of the gun rights issue are battling like they haven’t in years, all trying to shape the country’s politics and win over the American people.
Posted inHealth, Politics
Fact check: What impact did Obamacare have on CT’s uninsured rate?
The number of uninsured in Connecticut likely dropped significantly after the major pieces of Obamacare took effect. But though officials say otherwise, the data aren’t yet available to say with confidence how much it dropped.
Posted inEducation, Politics
Stefan Pryor to leave education post after one term
Stefan Pryor announced Monday he will not seek another term as state education commissioner, a step that could diminish some of the teacher dissatisfaction with the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
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Independent super PAC opposing Malloy has ties to Foley
Grow Connecticut, as independent expenditure group buying air time to oppose the re-election of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, was created last year by the campaign-finance law firm of Tom Foley, the Republican nominee for governor, after Foley’s ties to another super PAC were exposed by an elections enforcement case.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Op-Ed: Pols should do their campaign spending in Connecticut
Politicians who receive millions in public financing for their election campaigns should spend the money in Connecticut — not with out-of-state advertising firms.
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Op-Ed: Pols should do their campaign spending in Connecticut
Politicians who receive millions in public financing for their election campaigns should spend the money in Connecticut — not with out-of-state advertising firms.
Posted inNews
Washington Watch in recess
Congress is in recess and President Obama is on vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, so Washington Watch is on vacation, too. It will return next week.
Posted inHealth
CT’s individual insurance market grew 55 percent under Obamacare
Data from the Connecticut Insurance Department show that more than half the people who bought their own health insurance last year have maintained their old policies. But more than 50,000 of them won’t be able to keep their health plans beyond this year, potentially setting up a repeat of last fall’s turmoil and frustration among people whose policies were discontinued.
Posted inEducation
After the Newtown and Giffords shootings, polar opposite reactions from states
Four months after the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut lawmakers banned at least 115 types of semi-automatic firearms.
Four months after the shooting of a congresswoman and a federal judge in Tucson, lawmakers in Arizona declared the Colt Army Action Revolver the official state gun. The differences reflect the wide divide separating Americans from one end of the country to the other.