A state prosecutor’s report released Monday concludes that 20-year-old Adam Lanza acted alone in planning and executing his horrific attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School, but offers no answer to the one-word question that has plagued Connecticut and the nation since the murders of 20 children and six women at the Newtown school Dec. 14, […]
Prosecutor’s report provides details, not answers, on Sandy Hook
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Connecticut Democrats find generous donors among those doing business with state
Their game plan is secret, but the results are public: Solicitors for the Connecticut Democratic Party found generous donors among the ranks of state contractors in October, collecting $78,000 from five companies that did $67 million in business last year with the state.
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New CT customers to pick up most of tab for natural gas conversions
The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority Friday signed off on the final version of a plan to convert 280,000 homes and businesses to natural gas heat from oil and other fuels over the next 10 years. The gas conversion plan is the cornerstone of the state’s Comprehensive Energy Strategy unveiled just over a year ago and officially approved by the legislature in the last session.
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Obamacare, the state college system, and justice v. redemption for juvenile offenders
Nationwide, the week started badly for Obamacare and plunged downhill from there. In Connecticut, whose insurance exchange Access Health CT continues to roll along quite smoothly, officials worked all week to determine how to react to the president’s proposal that insurers be allowed to renew policies in 2014 even if they don’t comply with the Affordable Care Act. Obama’s plan was in response to the anger of millions of policyholders whose health plans are being canceled.
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Malloy is off to Florida
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is flying to Florida this weekend to join other governors Saturday in a dicussion on education and workforce development at the invitation-only policy conference of the State Government Affairs Council, a private association of government affairs professionals.
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Congress stalled on plastic gun ban
Washington – As the anniversary of the Newtown shootings nears, Congress not only seems unwilling to approve new gun control measures, but it’s stalling on reauthorizing old ones. The extension of a federal ban on guns designed to escape detection by metal detectors faltered this week when Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., used a procedural motion […]
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‘Canceled’ plans, in Connecticut, by the numbers
Data released Friday by the Connecticut Insurance Department show that the vast majority of the state’s 66,437 individual-market policyholders will have to either pick a new plan or renew their current plan early to keep it. But the way each insurance company has handled the changes varies, as do the choices members have. Here’s a look:
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Connecticut EV buyers — Malloy has a deal for you
Hartford — If all it takes to get you into an electric vehicle is a reliable network of charging stations, then Gov. Dannel P. Malloy opened the Connecticut International Auto Show Friday with a pitch that may sell some cars in 2014. Yes, the administration is promising an end to range anxiety.
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Malloy declines president’s ‘fix’ on Obamacare, but extends enrollment deadline
Connecticut will not allow insurance companies to extend policies now slated to be discontinued because of the federal health law, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Friday.
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Obamacare worry: Will feds pay consumer premiums on time?
Thousands of Connecticut residents buying insurance as part of the federal health law are expected to rely on the federal government to pay a portion of their premiums. But the federal government’s problem-plagued rollout of the law has left some would-be customers worried about whether that share of their premiums will get paid on time.
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A struggle to balance justice and redemption for juvenile offenders in Connecticut
The 70-year-old man rose slowly when his name was called. Before taking a seat at the microphone, he carefully unwrapped two framed photographs, one of a smiling 14-year-old boy, the other of a woman in her 40s. He placed them before the Connecticut Sentencing Commission. “My name is John Cluny,” he said. “I’ve been up […]
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Plan takes shape for CT’s community colleges and state universities
Danbury — If the plan of the new president of Connecticut’s public college system works, enrollment at the 17 schools will increase by nearly 10 percent over the next few years. Gregory Gray, who became the leader this past summer of the recently merged 12 community colleges, four state universities and online college, is unfazed […]
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Vietnam veterans need your help
It appears that very few members of the military-veteran community or the general public are aware of problems still faced by veterans of the Vietnam War. Nearly half the surviving 100,000 members of the U.S. Navy and Fleet Marines who fought in Vietnam between 1962 and 1975 may be suffering disabilities from the effects of Agent Orange/dioxin. Yet, these veterans are being denied all service-connected health care and disability compensation for these diseases.
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Vietnam veterans need your help
It appears that very few members of the military-veteran community or the general public are aware of problems still faced by veterans of the Vietnam War. Nearly half the surviving 100,000 members of the U.S. Navy and Fleet Marines who fought in Vietnam between 1962 and 1975 may be suffering disabilities from the effects of Agent Orange/dioxin. Yet, these veterans are being denied all service-connected health care and disability compensation for these diseases.
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As Obamacare fix is debated, Aetna says it discontinued 12,500 policies
Aetna notified 12,500 individual policyholders in Connecticut that their health plans would not be renewed when they expire. But about 40 percent of them so far have chosen to buy a new policy that begins this year, allowing them to get 12 months of coverage from a plan not subject to the requirements of the federal health law.