By: Georgia Lobb Photo courtesy of The Atlantic Wire Due to recent budget cuts across the board of transportation, The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that over 170 air traffic control towers are set to shut down on April 7th, according to Transportation Nation. These closures will affect small and medium sized airports. There […]

Washington – When it comes to Connecticut’s small airports, it seems not all of them are equal in the eyes of Rep. Rosa DeLauro and the state’s U.S. senators. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn., joined DeLauro, D-3rd District, Friday in a plea to the Federal Aviation Administration to keep the air control […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who has made the creation and retention of manufacturing jobs an administration priority, left no doubt Friday that he is willing to risk the loss of firearms jobs to win a stronger assault-weapon ban that he sees as inevitable. “We don’t want to sell these weapons in our state, but they […]

Norwalk — Paula Sanchez estimates that when Hurricane Sandy was at its fiercest, the water in her first-floor apartment went as high as 3 1/2 feet. It was the worst flooding she’d ever experienced. But it wasn’t the only flooding. “I have floods all the time,” Sanchez said, sitting on her living room couch. “I […]

As the General Assembly’s leaders negotiate gun-control legislation, the firearms industry is running commercials featuring three Connecticut makers of the AR-15 rifle, underscoring their importance to the economy with an implicit threat they could leave for friendlier political climes. “Connecticut’s our home. We grew up here,” Dennis Veilleux, the president of Colt’s Manufacturing, says in […]

Long-simmering resentment on the part of a group of distinguished professors at the four Connecticut State Universities toward the University of Connecticut has boiled over in a letter to state officials blasting what they say is the latest example of inequity — a proposal by the governor to increase funding to UConn. All 12 “CSU […]

Washington — Congress took its first, halting steps toward gun control Thursday as a divided Senate panel approved a bill that would increase federal penalties on trafficking and then began debate on more contentious issues. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-7 to approve the gun trafficking bill, which would also toughen penalties on “‘straw purchases” […]

By: Georgia Lobb Eerily following the story we just posted on the deadliest roads in Connecticut for pedestrians, two men were killed in separate incidents that happened on Saturday and Monday. One accident was on the road that’s been identified as Connecticut’s most dangerous for pedestrians: Post Road. 68- year old Bruce Tabackman was crossing […]

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy’s latest front in his war against the National Rifle Association has taken the form of a strongly worded letter to NASCAR CEO Brian France, demanding he reverse a decision to call a new race the “NRA 500.” NASCAR and the Texas Motor Speedway have completed a deal to make the NRA […]

The leaders of the Connecticut General Assembly emerged from gun-control negotiations Wednesday night to offer an account carefully constructed from the noncommittal language of diplomacy. It was “good and productive.” They “remain optimistic.” Everyone came in “good faith.” And, of course, “everything is on the table.” Sen. Donald E. Williams Jr., Reps. J. Brendan Sharkey […]

Washington – The Federal Aviation Administration has notified six Connecticut airports that it will close their control towers effective April 7 due to federal budget cuts. The shuttering of air towers at Hartford’s Brainard Airport, Stratford’s Igor I. Sikorsky Airport, Tweed-New Haven Regional Airport, Danbury Municipal Airport, Waterbury-Oxford Airport and Groton-New London Airport will not […]