Three weeks remain until The Connecticut Mirror’s signature event, Small State, Big Debate: Inequality. You can find registration, speakers and the day’s schedule at the event’s website here. We also featured our speakers last week through video and audio.
Have a ticket? Three weeks remain until “Small State, Big Debate: Inequality”
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WATCH: The Mirror’s “CT Electric Choices and You” Tuesday
Join The Connecticut Mirror on Tuesday, April 8, at 10:30 a.m. for its first Digital Town Hall event on ctmirror.org.
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Pragmatic civics, shifting shorelines
You know how Congress works as defined in the Constitution. But we try to show how Congress actually operates on a day-to-day. Tune in to pragmatic civics, by Washington reporter Ana Radelat and data editor Alvin Chang.
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Courtney betting prestige, ‘treats,’ on Huskies
In a time-honored congressional tradition, Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, has publicly challenged a colleagues on over who will come out on top in a key game in this year’s NCAA tournament.
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GE lobbies hard for tax loophole, groups say
Washington – How much is a tax loophole worth to a company? A new report says that one in particular is so important to Fairfield-based General Electric that it has deployed a small army of lobbyists to save it.
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Rowland signs off at WTIC-AM, citing ‘some personal issues’
Former Gov. John G. Rowland, who was named Monday as a conspirator in a criminal case involving a friend’s 2012 congressional campaign, abruptly announced his resignation Thursday as a WTIC-AM radio host as his drive-time talk show was ending at 6 p.m.
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Corporate tables available for “Small State, Big Debate”
Corporate tables are still available for The Connecticut Mirror’s first signature event, “Small State, Big Debate: Inequality.” You can find registration, speakers and the day’s schedule at the event’s website here.
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Same-sex married couples can now apply for Medicare benefits
The change was made in response to last summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which had prevented the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages in determining Medicare eligibility.
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CT authorizes six medical marijuana dispensaries
Connecticut officials have designated facilities in Branford, Bridgeport, Bristol, Hartford, South Windsor and Uncasville to serve as the state’s first six medical marijuana dispensaries.
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Not so fast: Key lawmaker upset with approval of more charter schools
The co-chairwoman of the General Assembly’s powerful budget-writing committee is angry that the State Board of Education has approved opening more charter schools than the state budget provides for.
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Gun-control advocates to back CT allies with super PAC
An untested coalition of 28 gun-control groups in Connecticut marked the anniversary of a legislative victory – bipartisan passage of a sweeping gun law in response to the Newtown massacre – by promising to protect their allies from political defeat this fall.
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CT gets another insurer: Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, a nonprofit Massachusetts company, said Thursday that it has received a license to begin selling coverage in the state.
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Exploration’s over: David Walker announces for Lt. Governor
David M. Walker, former U.S. comptroller general, said he is closing his exploratory committee and running for a spot on the GOP under ticket.
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New analysis pinpoints change on Connecticut’s Long Island shoreline
Data from Connecticut’s shoreline from as far back as 1880 shows for the first time how, where, how much and how fast the shoreline has changed — mostly receding — in the last 130 years.
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Key CT legislator wary of proposed for-profit hospital moratorium
House Speaker J. Brendan Sharkey Wednesday expressed reservations about a controversial proposal that would impose a moratorium on nonprofit hospitals becoming for-profit.