The decision Tuesday by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall leaves intact the state’s regulatory authority over independent expenditures by the Democratic Governors Association, but it does not block the organization from supporting the re-election of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
DGA loses challenge, but can still support Malloy’s election
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Malloy pays price now for protecting municipalities in 2011
When Gov. Dannel P. Malloy isn’t dismissing the $1.4 billion deficit awaiting state finances after the election, he’s reminding reporters it’s not even 40 percent of the mess he inherited four years ago. What gets less attention though, are the municipal aid and pension reforms Malloy also undertook with bipartisan support.
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Murphy joins Biden, McCain in trip to Eastern Europe
Sen. Chris Murphy has just returned from a weekend trip to Eastern Europe, where he attended the inauguration of new Ukrainian President Petro O. Poroshenko in Kiev as part of an eight-member U.S. delegation that included Vice President Joe Biden and Arizona Sen. John McCain.
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South Windsor manager to lead CT Conference of Municipalities
South Windsor Town Manager Matthew B. Galligan was elected Tuesday as the new president of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities.
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Former senator’s 450-lb weight loss leads to a charity
Former state Sen. Joseph H. Harper, D-New Britain, is celebrating his 450-pound weight loss with a fundraiser for an autism charity associated with the Hospital for Special Care in New Britain, the institution that guided his weight loss.
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Patients will get notices about ‘facility fees’ starting in October
Starting in October, patients will receive advance notification if they will face extra charges for getting outpatient care at hospital-owned facilities, under a bill Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed into law.
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Boughton-Lauretti ‘cautiously optimistic’ on petitions
Mark Boughton’s gubernatorial campaign was “cautiously optimistic” Tuesday it had filed sufficient signatures by the 4 p.m. deadline to qualify his running mate, Mark Lauretti, for the Republican primary in August. But there were glitches, including no one present at Bridgewater town hall to accept the petitions.
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Student outreach plan key to keeping CT college system in the black
A new outreach program designed to attract new students to Connecticut’s merged public college system also could determine whether system’s new $1.1 billion budget remains in balance over the next year.
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Can Connecticut keep its fuel cell edge?
Connecticut’s fuel cell industry is considered the best in the world. But extreme developments in the last several months are once again raising the question of whether the state still has its edge when it comes to the expanding global reach of the fuel cell business.
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Obama honors, jokes with Huskies
Washington – A relaxed and jovial President Obama honored the UConn men’s and women’s basketball teams basketball teams Monday at an elegant event in the East Room of the White House that showed the president was on his game.
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Backpack with Access Health data taken to House GOP office
The backpack containing personal information of clients of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange was left outside a Hartford deli where a worker from the exchange’s call center sat while waiting for a ride Thursday afternoon. The man who found it called the office of his state representative and later brought the backpack to the House GOP office.
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Malloy vetoes bills on tax circuit-breaker, fallen tree limbs
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy vetoed two more bills Monday, rejecting measures regarding the municipal property tax circuit-breaker program and the cost of removing fallen tree limbs.
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Digital Town Hall: Caregiving and Aging in Connecticut on Monday
Join The Connecticut Mirror on Monday, June 16, for its third Digital Town Hall event on ctmirror.org. The event, “Caregiving and Aging in Connecticut,” will be be moderated by Mirror health care reporter Arielle Levin Becker.
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Metro-North ‘crisis’ slow to build — with no quick fix
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy held a “crisis summit” Monday at Metro-North, but the surest time for preventing the latest service interruption on nation’s busiest commuter railroad most likely passed a decade ago during the waning days of the administration of Gov. John G. Rowland.
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Tobacco funds: Connecticut’s budget-balancing escape hatch
Connecticut has received nearly $2 billion in settlement funds from big tobacco companies in the past 15 years. Only a small fraction has gone to anti-smoking efforts. Instead, the fund has become largely an escape hatch when lawmakers need help balancing the budget.