Gotcha! Not exactly. Linda McMahon’s campaign press release that asserted Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch “was caught on camera telling Congressman Chris Murphy, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, that he will receive a ‘big turnout in Bridgeport.’ “ He wasn’t caught on camera, at least not in the sense that no one otherwise would know […]
McMahon campaign breathless over Finch joke
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Introducing Rant & Rail
I’m fed up with driving. I’m fed up with congestion, with traffic lights, with jaywalkers, with gas prices.
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Biden in Kent for fundraiser, not campaigning
With Joe Biden’s visit Saturday, the running mates on each presidential ticket now have come to Connecticut with the same mission — to collect checks, not to campaign. Biden was in Kent for a fundraiser. Access was limited to pool coverage. Here is the pool report of The Courant’s Daniela Altimari: Vice President Joe Biden […]
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To Joe Biden and Paul Ryan: Come on, not even a glance to the south?!
Another view on last night’s vice presidential debate is available here, at CTLatino News.
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Meotti: Second higher education casualty
Michael P. Meotti, executive vice president of the Board of Regents of Higher Education — and the focus of the pay-raise scandal that slammed the department this week — became the second top official to resign Friday. Earlier, Robert A. Kennedy, president of higher education’s central office, announced his resignation. The resignations follow confirmation that […]
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Board of Regents taps former UConn president to repair tarnished image
The board that leads the state’s scandal-marred, merged public college system endorsed former University of Connecticut President Philip E. Austin on Friday to help salvage its image — a move prompted by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The Board of Regents of Higher Education, which accepted the resignation of embattled President Robert A. Kennedy, also promised […]
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Board of Regents announces ’emergency’ meeting to name interim successor to Kennedy
The Board of Regents for Higher Education used a procedural move to add a second order of business to its meeting this afternoon: appointing an interim successor to President Robert A. Kennedy, who resigned this morning. The board, which already had scheduled a 2:30 meeting for this afternoon to accept Kennedy’s resignation, technically posted a notice […]
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Embattled Board of Regents chief resigns
Robert A. Kennedy, the embattled president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, announced his resignation Friday morning, effective immediately. Kennedy, who was recruited last year by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to lead the new consolidation of the higher education system, bowed to mounting pressure for his resignation after disclosures he unilaterally approved executive pay […]
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Andrew Roraback: a uniquely Connecticut Republican
Washington –– When Democrats at a state convention in May were picking a candidate for the 5th Congressional District seat, several delegates asked Democratic State Central Committeewoman Audrey Blondin, “Why can’t we nominate Andrew Roraback?” “I just shook my head,” Blondin said. “I told them, ‘No, no, no, we can’t because he’s a Republican.’” Roraback, […]
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On raises and the University of Maine…
The Bangor Daily News has a nice chart of the raises provided at the University of Maine, the state’s flagship university Robert A. Kennedy ran for six years before coming to Connecticut in 2011. The chart looks at the increases given between 2006 and 2012 that total $757,041 in that system’s central office. It also […]
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Dennis O’Neil, a pillar of labor politics, dies
Dennis O’Neil of Litchfield, a passionate and profane booster of the political left, organized labor and the Boston Red Sox, died Friday after a lengthy illness. He was 65. O’Neil was a fixture in Connecticut politics for 40 years, working to elect Toby Moffet to Congress in the 1970s, working on the nuclear freeze movement […]
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To Joe Biden and Paul Ryan: Come on, not even a glance to the south?!
Another view on last night’s vice presidential debate is available here, at CTLatino News.
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Round Two: McMahon, Murphy stick to the familiar
Storrs — With well-practiced moves and occasional flashes of spontaneity, Democrat Chris Murphy and Republican Linda McMahon counter-punched over each other’s character, intellectual depth and commitment to women’s reproductive health Thursday night in their second U.S. Senate debate. Murphy scored the only applause line of the night when McMahon launched into an ill-timed attack on […]
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Bipartisan legislative call for resignation of higher education president
Pressures mounted Thursday for the chief of the state’s merged public college system to resign as leaders of the legislature’s Higher Education Committee issued a bipartisan call for the embattled administrator to step down. Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, and Rep. Roberta Willis, D-Salisbury, co-chairwomen of the committee, and the two ranking Republicans, Sen. Toni […]
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Auditors: Income verification spotty in Irene scandal
A new analysis of the food stamps fraud scandal following last year’s Tropical Storm Irene found state social services workers weren’t instructed to ask applicants to verify income information. State Auditors John Geragosian and Robert Ward also concluded Thursday that the administration failed to review more than 110 government workers who received benefits, and that […]