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 […]

The move to shift state workers to two newly purchased private office complexes from facilities in Hartford and East Hartford and elsewhere in central Connecticut should save the state roughly $200 million — adjusted for inflation — over the next two decades, according to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The state will move at least 3,100 […]

Order and normal routine has been restored to Manchester Community College after a report of an armed man on campus forced it into lockdown Wednesday afternoon. According to a press release issued Wednesday night by the Manchester Police Department, a student at the school reported seeing what was believed to be a man with a […]

The Connecticut General Assembly today unanimously passed legislation creating a special fund for first-responders, teachers and others who suffered psychological trauma from the mass murder of 26 children and women at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Backed by private donations, the fund will supplement a workers’ compensation system that does not reimburse for lost wages and […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy assured business leaders Wednesday that neither the state’s fiscal woes nor political gridlock on Capitol Hill would stymie his efforts to revitalize Connecticut’s economy. Addressing hundreds of owners and executives gathered for Business Day in the Legislative Office Building, the governor also insisted he would balance state finances without hiking taxes […]

By a 2-1 margin, Connecticut voters want stricter gun controls following the massacre of 26 children and women in Newtown, with even stronger support for universal background checks on gun purchasers and the annual registration of all handguns,  a new poll shows. A Quinnipiac University poll released today found 68 percent of voters support expanding […]

Depending on to whom you talk, the University of Connecticut is either starving for more state investment or it is already pigging out. “It appears [UConn is] a man eating with two forks. And that’s sometimes how we’re asked about expenditures at UConn. You know, when is it enough?” Sen. Andrew Maynard, D-Stonington, recently told […]

Update: 7:34 p.m A divided General Assembly voted Wednesday night to confirm Shelley Marcus, 61, of Branford as a judge of the Superior Court, despite an effort by her own senator to derail the nomination. The Senate voted 31-4, with two Democrats and two Republicans opposed. The House voted 79-54, with eight Democrats joining 46 Republicans […]