He couldn’t win the job now held by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Maybe former Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele will do better taking a shot at the one Malloy used to hold — mayor of Stamford. Michael Fedele Fedele, who was Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s number two, announced his mayoral candidacy today. The GOP incumbent, Michael […]
Fedele running for Stamford mayor
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Cringing at the Gas Pump in Ridgefield, CT
By: Georgia Lobb I snapped this picture while I was fueling up in Ridgefield, CT this morning. I used my credit card to put Plus into my old car- so I paid nearly $4.50 per gallon. Let’s all sit back and watch the prices rise to the $5.00 mark…. coming soon to a gas station […]
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White House details sequester’s impact in Connecticut
The White House released a state-by-state report Sunday that shows how sequestration, or looming automatic cuts to the federal budget, would affect Connecticut. The report says the $85 billion reduction to the federal budget, half of that cut to the Pentagon, would mean a reduction of $8.7 million in federal aid to Connecticut’s schools and […]
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States with lax gun laws competing for Connecticut’s gun makers
Washington — A growing number of states, most of them in the South, are trying to lure gun manufacturers in Connecticut and other places with tough gun laws. The offers appear to be tendered by hopes of economic development and to appeal to gun rights voters. Republicans in Mississippi, South Carolina, Arizona and Texas have […]
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Homeless families causing foster children to linger in state custody
Homelessness is preventing the state’s child welfare agency from reuniting 500 children with their families. “Essentially, they are still not with their families for any reason other than poverty,” Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz told the legislature’s budget-writing committee Friday. Of those children who “could go home if there was a home […]
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Malloy discusses federal budget cuts with Obama
Washington — When Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy joined a number of fellow Democrats meeting with President Obama and Vice President Biden Friday, the main topic of conversation were looming cuts to the federal budget known as “sequestration.” “I’m very concerned about the effects of sequestration on our defense industry,” Malloy said after spending more than […]
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Courtney gets his wish with school safety hearing
Just four days after the tragic shootings in Newtown, Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, wrote the Republican chairman and highest-ranking Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, asking them to make gun safety a priority. The leaders of the committee agreed, scheduling a hearing on school safety next Wednesday. “After tragic shootings on school […]
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Malloy to D.C. for NGA
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is in Washington, D.C., for the midwinter meeting of the National Governors Association, which began today and ends Monday with a session at the White House. The governor returns to Washington with a profile raised by tragedy: He has had repeated contact with President Obama and Vice President Biden since the […]
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Malloy’s plans for higher education financing ‘a nonstarter’
The chairwoman of the legislature’s higher education committee said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plan for higher education is likely to face a roadblock in the legislature. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget sheds the state’s responsibility to cover the actual costs of providing the medical, retirement and other fringe benefits for thousands of college and […]
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NASCAR honors Newtown victims
A car owned by Swan Racing, which aims to raise money for the Sandy Hook School Support Fund, qualified Thursday for Florida’s Daytona 500, the biggest and the first NASCAR race of the season. A Toyota painted green and white, the colors of Sandy Hook Elementary, and bearing the number 26 in honor of the […]
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Biden: ‘I can predict what will be written about us if we don’t act’
Danbury — On a college campus 10 miles from Newtown, Vice President Joe Biden closed a symposium on gun violence Thursday with a plea for political courage and a call for action on gun control. “I can predict what will be written about us if we don’t act,” Biden said. “It’s not so much to […]
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Text of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s remarks at gun violence conference
Two months ago, our state became the center of a national debate after a tragedy we never imagined could happen here. The horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School brought home the fact that we are not immune to problems that face the nation at large, that we can never become complacent in our effort […]
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With VP in town, Malloy outlines gun control plan
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy dismissed as unimportant the question of why he forcefully inserted himself Thursday into the unfolding legislative debate over gun control after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. “It’s been 69 days since Sandy Hook, a long time,” Malloy said at a late-afternoon press conference in Hartford, hours after he […]
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Sequestration’s impact to be broadly felt — in Connecticut and across the country
Washington — Congress is playing chicken with the federal budget again, and the results could have a broad impact across the country. Some of those affected will be air travelers, students, low-income mothers with young children, university researchers and defense industry workers. On March 1 — a week from tomorrow — $85 billion in automatic […]
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Think a 5.1% tuition hike is bad? Just wait.
The 5.1 percent tuition hike college officials are looking at to erase a deficit for the next school year may be nothing compared with the increases the system could be forced to implement if the governor gets his way. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget sheds the state’s responsibility to cover the actual costs of […]