A General Assembly committee rejected wind-turbine regulations for the third time in nine months Tuesday, prompting environmentalists to complain that legislators are blocking home-grown wind power just as the technology is showing signs of producing electricity at competitive prices. “This is really outright obstructionism at this point,” said Chris Phelps, the state director of Environment […]
CT legislature blocks wind power regulations for third time
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Amid Obamacare marketing push, confusion about Medicare
There’s a major marketing campaign under way for Access Health CT, the new insurance marketplace opening Oct. 1 as part of the federal health reform law. But some officials and others who work with seniors are trying to get out a separate message: If you’re on Medicare, the new marketplace is not for you.
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The new voice of labor in Connecticut is female and gay
Lori Pelletier, new head of Connecticut AFL-CIO Hamden – Lori J. Pelletier appears set to be chosen by acclamation in a casino hotel ballroom Thursday as the new voice and face of labor in Connecticut, becoming the first openly gay woman to lead a state labor federation in the United States. But on Tuesday, Pelletier […]
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Connecticut businesses looking up, and considering the drone
Old Saybrook — Out of a beautiful fall sky, a drone – an unmanned aerial vehicle – lands outside the Saybrook Point Inn to a rapturous reception from a group of business executives. The green-and-black device is about 3 feet across, carries a video camera and weighs less than five pounds. It looks like a […]
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Himes: Likely shutdown ‘the most predictable disaster that ever happened’
Washington – To Adam Puccino, a mason who works at Naval Submarine Base in New London, the possibility of a government shutdown is just the latest in a long string of bad news coming out of Washington. “All this stuff with Congress seems to be going on over and over again,” Puccino said. “I’m burned […]
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Puppy mill task force getting attention before it even holds first meeting
A so-called “puppy mill” legislative task force is already stirring up a lot of interest from the media and lobbyists before it even holds its first meeting Wednesday morning. The bipartisan task force, which will look into the “inhumane treatment” of puppies and kittens sold to Connecticut pet stores, will hold an organizational meeting at […]
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Connecticut RPS should not promote wind power sites in Maine
Shame on Connecticut for choosing to promote destruction of a region in the state of Maine for their ill-conceived, arbitrary, ideologically based RPS whim: Sept. 20 “Esty makes renewable choices: Maine wind, CT sunshine.” Destroy your own damned state with 500-foot-tall turbines on blasted away, leveled, and scalped ridges! The developer of “Number Nine Wind Farm” is EDP Renewables North America, formally Horizon Wind, which has been knocking around Aroostook County for years with no success.
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Connecticut RPS should not promote wind power sites in Maine
Shame on Connecticut for choosing to promote destruction of a region in the state of Maine for their ill-conceived, arbitrary, ideologically based RPS whim: Sept. 20 “Esty makes renewable choices: Maine wind, CT sunshine.” Destroy your own damned state with 500-foot-tall turbines on blasted away, leveled, and scalped ridges! The developer of “Number Nine Wind Farm” […]
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Connecticut RPS should not promote wind power sites in Maine
Shame on Connecticut for choosing to promote destruction of a region in the state of Maine for their ill-conceived, arbitrary, ideologically based RPS whim: Sept. 20 “Esty makes renewable choices: Maine wind, CT sunshine.” Destroy your own damned state with 500-foot-tall turbines on blasted away, leveled, and scalped ridges! The developer of “Number Nine Wind Farm” is EDP Renewables North America, formally Horizon Wind, which has been knocking around Aroostook County for years with no success.
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Debate intensifies over CT’s credit card
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration continues to face criticism over its handling of Connecticut’s credit card for capital projects. With three months to go in 2013, Malloy already has reached his self-imposed limit on designating projects for financing this year. That prompted a charge of fiscal irresponsibility from state Sen. John P. McKinney of Fairfield, […]
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Supreme Court to rule on UConn program Vallas passed for Bridgeport schools job
The future of Paul Vallas’s leadership of Bridgeport’s schools is in the hands of the State Supreme Court. “It ends here. We know there is nowhere else to go,” Norm Pattis, the attorney requesting Vallas’s ouster, told the justices Monday. A lower court judge ruled this spring that Vallas is unqualified to run Bridgeport’s schools — the […]
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Access Health chief: Get help applying for Obamacare coverage, and don’t use paper
With just over a week to go before the state’s new health insurance marketplace launches, its leader has some advice for potential shoppers: Get help enrolling. And please, whatever you do, avoid the paper application.
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Librarians, used to queries, gear up for Obamacare questions
Librarians are used to getting questions on everything from bar bets to job searches. Now they’re preparing to help patrons with a new topic: Obamacare.
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Obamacare Q&A, Part 2: Avoiding penalties, getting laid off, and taking free coverage
This week’s reader questions on federal health reform address penalties for not having insurance, what kind of coverage will keep you from getting penalized, what options a person will have after losing a job, and the cost of buying insurance through the state’s new marketplace.
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Malloy order aims to help veterans get jobs, college credit
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is hoping to straighten the path for hundreds of veterans who served as medics, truck drivers, plumbers and many other professions in the military only to be told, once they get home, that they need to start from square one. Malloy signed an order Monday that streamlines the process for getting […]