Former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman is advising the transition of an ad hoc Sandy Hook fund to a formal charity that will decide how to dispense $8 million donated since the shooting deaths of 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary a month ago. “I am honored to be asked to provide counsel to […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is expected to make a major economic development announcement at noon today at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Jackson Laboratory research institute next to the UConn Health Center in Farmington. The Governor’s office did not release further details about the announcement, which will be made before about 200 dignitaries, researchers, civic […]

Thirty years after the deadly Mianus River Bridge collapse, hundreds of bridges on Connecticut’s local roads are deemed to be in “poor” condition by the state — and many have not been inspected in more than two decades. Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposal Wednesday to borrow $15 million for bridge repair and maintenance this year will […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and House Speaker J. Brendan Sharkey gave town leaders reason to believe Thursday that cuts in state funding are headed their way. “There will be some pain going around,” the Democratic governor told small town leaders at a conference in Cromwell Wednesday. “It is probably unlikely that we are going to be […]

Washington – Dozens of House Democrats listened raptly to the testimony of Newtown School Superintendent Janet Robinson, some wiping away tears, at a hearing Wednesday on gun violence. Robinson calmly gave the panel of lawmakers a chillingly detailed account of the day in December that resulted in the shooting deaths of 20 small children and […]

Connecticut’s mayors and first selectmen tried Wednesday to broaden the gun-control conversation beyond the shocking circumstances of the Newtown mass murders to the below-the-radar realities of every-day gun violence. The shootings of 26 children and educators by a 20-year-old with a semiautomatic rifle is fueling an unprecedented push for new legislation in state capitals and […]

“In the hours after the worst of our fears were confirmed, in the midst of the grief and sorrow over the loss of 20 innocent children and six dedicated educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there was one question on the minds of people across Connecticut and around the nation: How do we make sure […]

Washington — President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious, broad-ranging package of gun proposals Wednesday, touching off what’s expected to be a massive battle with gun-rights advocates the president predicted “would gin up fear” of a “tyrannical all-out assault on liberty.” Obama singled out the parents of 7-year-old Grace McDonnell, one of the children slain in […]

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About 200 dignitaries, researchers and others are expected to attend a daylong groundbreaking celebration Thursday for the Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine at the construction site next to the UConn Health Center in Farmington. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst, Jackson Lab President and CEO Edison Liu will be among those […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today embraced President Obama’s initiative on guns as a “critical first step” in curbing gun violence, and he promised to make Connecticut a national leader on the issue. Malloy declined an invitation to be at the White House for Obama’s announcement, but he is addressing the U.S. Conference of Mayors on […]

Washington – The House on Tuesday stripped $9.8 million for repairs to Connecticut’s Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, but approved most of the rest of a $50.7 billion package to help states recover from Super Storm Sandy. To placate GOP conservatives, money to replenish the federal flood insurance program was considered  earlier this month […]