Google will pay Connecticut $520,823 as part of a $7 million settlement with 37 states over the unauthorized collection of unsecured wi-fi data by its roving “Street View” vehicles that collect images for its mapping system, Attorney General George Jepsen announced Tuesday. As the lead state in the investigation, Connecticut won a larger share of […]
Jepsen negotiates privacy settlement with Google
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Bipartisan ceremony for Sandy Hook aid bill
A bipartisan deal on gun violence remains elusive, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and legislators held a ceremony Tuesday to mark last week’s unanimous passage of a bill creating the Sandy Hook Workers Assistance Fund. “I want to commend the members of the General Assembly for coming together in a bipartisan manner to provide relief […]
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Every demographic backs minimum wage increase in poll
Increasing the $8.25 minimum wage is popular among Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters in the Quinnipiac University poll released today.
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CCSU students rally against proposed tuition, fee, housing increases
New Britain — Central Connecticut State University student Cameron Sutphion is mindful of the cost of college, so he saves money where he can. He started off his college career at a more affordable community college, lives with his parents in Enfield and commutes to school to avoid having to take out student loans for […]
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Pressure builds as leaders work on gun control
The National Rifle Association and three makers of AR-15 rifles filled the Legislative Office Building with gun owners and firearms workers Monday, a show of force intended to blunt the reach of gun-control legislation now being negotiated by the General Assembly’s leadership. The Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate adjourned without a […]
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Harriet Beecher Stowe house wins national historic designation
Washington — The home of abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe has joined the Hartford homes of Mark Twain and gun maker Samuel Colt on an exclusive list — it has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Interior Department. But the home of the author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” is not being honored for […]
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Stamford Advocate: More people riding buses, bikes
Some encouraging numbers from yesterday’s Stamford Advocate: 7,726 bicyclists were logged boarding Stamford’s public buses last year. That’s a new record, up from 7,630 in 2008.Bus ridership was recorded at over 3.4 million last year, up from 3.3 million the year before. That’s a 3.5 percent increase from the year before, and a 15 percent […]
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Lieberman joins conservative think tank
Washington — Former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman will join the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative Washington-based think tank announced Monday. In a statement AEI said Lieberman will serve as co-chairman of the American Internationalism Project, alongside former Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. “The American Internationalism Project, under the leadership of Sen. Lieberman and Sen. Jon Kyl, […]
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DSS launches new online service
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced in a news release Monday that the state Department of Social Services has launched a new user-friendly online service as a first step to modernize its fragile, outdated system. The service, at www.connect.ct.gov, allows clients to check on the status of their benefits and the public to check on whether […]
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Student tuition and state funding nears 50-50 split in covering college costs
With the price tag to attend the state’s public universities likely to increase next year, Connecticut is about to cross a historic threshold in which students pay more than the state to cover the public institutions’ costs. Tuition revenue last school year covered 47.5 percent of the costs at Connecticut’s public colleges and universities, a […]
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Residents want local approval power over inmate nursing home
Feeling duped and fearful of the state’s plan to move inmates and mentally ill patients into a former nursing home without zoning approval, Rocky Hill neighbors and town leaders testified Friday for a bill that would require local site approval. Lawmakers representing Rocky Hill proposed the bill to prevent the state from opening similar prison […]
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The Cost of Sequestration: FAA Says 173 Air Control Towers Will Close Starting April 7th
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 […]
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Effort to keep air towers open focuses on Tweed
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 […]
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Malloy willing to risk gun jobs for inevitable gun ban
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 […]
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Public housing residents nervously await next storm — with good reason
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 […]