With anonymously sourced details continuing to dribble out about the state police investigation of the Newtown school massacre of 26 children and educators, House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, asked Wednesday for an official interim report. Cafero was responding to a New York Daily News story about Newtown killer Adam Lanza’s preoccupation with […]
House GOP leader demands interim report on Newtown
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End-of-life bill brings comfort for some, fears of vulnerability for others
More than most people, Sara Myers has a sense of how she might die. She has ALS, a disease that takes away the ability to move until, eventually, the diaphragm stops working. “You basically are smothered to death,” she said. Myers wants an alternative. She’s not ready to take her life, but she wants it […]
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Juan Figueroa named corporation counsel in Hartford
Juan Figueroa, the former president of the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut and a Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 2010, was named Wednesday by Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra as the city’s corporation counsel. “Juan is a well-respected, true expert in his field. He has dedicated his career to public policy locally and nationally and has […]
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A breakdown of the savings from higher ed shakeup …
Are you curious to learn if merging the state’s community colleges, the four Connecticut State Universities and online state college into one system resulted in the promised $4.5 million in savings? So are state legislators. Last week, members of the legislature’s Appropriations and Higher Education committees received a breakdown of where the highly-touted savings was […]
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Another defendant in Donovan ‘straw donor’ case pleads guilty
Daniel Monteiro, 33, of Wolcott pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal conspiracy charge arising from the effort to use campaign contributions to the congressional campaign of former House Speaker Christopher Donovan to influence legislation in the General Assembly last year, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Monteiro, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to […]
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Gun insurance proposal draws heat
A proposal to require gun owners to buy liability insurance — such as that required of car owners — drew opposition at a two-hour hearing at the State Capitol Wednesday.
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Big City Mayors: governor’s budget means job losses
Mayors from the state’s largest cities came to the state Capitol Wednesday to share a message: The governor’s budget could force them to lay off hundreds of municipal employees.
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On gun control, Good Friday is the next deadline
Wedged between the religious observances of Passover and Good Friday is a two-day window next week for the Connecticut General Assembly to adopt bipartisan gun-violence legislation in response to the Sandy Hook massacre. If legislation is not ready for action next Wednesday and Thursday, closure on an all-consuming issue that legislators once pledged to resolve […]
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Malloy’s budget would deplete retired teachers’ health-care fund
The health care plan that covers 35,000 retired teachers and their spouses will be almost completely depleted two years from now if the governor gets his way. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is asking legislators to eliminate the state’s contribution for retired teachers’ health benefits in the upcoming budget, a move that would save the state […]
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Malloy said he expected failure of federal assault weapons ban
Gov. Dannel Malloy said the death of an assault weapons ban in Congress was to be expected. “I can count,” he said. Malloy said he determined there aren’t 60 votes for the ban that are needed to move the legislation forward. On Monday night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada told bill sponsor Sen. […]
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CT Mirror reporters win national Education Writers Association awards
Reporters Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, Keith M. Phaneuf and Mark Pazniokas won a first prize for a series of investigative stories that led to the resignations of the two highest officials in the Connecticut State University system.
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Sandy Hook panel urges broader gun controls
The Sandy Hook Advisory Commission ignored the politics cramping gun-control legislation now under negotiation and issued an interim report Monday recommending broad restrictions on the sale and possession of semiautomatic firearms and ammunition in Connecticut. The independent panel appointed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy after the shooting deaths of 26 children and women at Sandy […]
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Newtown shapes, challenges Esty’s first months in Congress
Washington – Like all new federal lawmakers, Rep. Elizabeth Esty is learning each day how to function in Congress. But unlike most, hers is a trial by fire.
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New arts grant system irritates many, pleases few
Barbara Schaffer, the director of development at New Haven-based Elm Shakespeare, hadn’t been too worried last year when the newly reconfigured state Office of the Arts overhauled its grant system. Instead of giving away money mainly for general operating support as it had for decades, much of the grant system was reformulated under the philosophy […]
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The promise — and challenge — of rescuing Hartford’s Milner School
As a valued classroom aide, Sondra Henderson represents both the promise — and the challenge — of the latest effort to rescue Hartford’s Milner School, one of the state’s most troubled public schools. Henderson is one of the 20 aides hired last fall to assist teachers as Milner began making a series of reforms under […]