East Haven — On a morning he described as a “10,” Andy Weinstein and his cousin Sara-Ann Auerbach stood on the stretch of Cosey Beach the two have shared for decades. Just short of a year after Tropical Storm Irene reduced Weinstein’s home to rubble and sent half of Auerbach’s into the water while toppling […]

Washington –  Expecting to be walloped by Tropical Storm Isaac, which is forecast to reach hurricane strength, organizers of the Republican National Convention decided to delay most of the  event’s opening day activities until Tuesday afternoon. Isaac is expected to reach Florida’s Gulf Coast late Sunday. Tampa, the host city of the GOP convention, is […]

Just as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plan to bolster the state’s cash-starved employee pension fund kicks in, a leading Wall Street credit-rating agency is posing a new way to test the pension system’s fiscal health. Moody’s Investors Service has proposed a new methodology that would offer a much grimmer assessment of public employee pension plans […]

Public health officials have reported two new cases of West Nile virus, bringing the number of cases in Connecticut this month to four. The new cases in Stamford and Bridgeport follow a trend of outbreaks along the shoreline and come on the heels of cases in New Haven and Stamford. The newest cases, reported Thursday, […]

Washington — Connecticut’s GOP, a minority in the state, is also likely to be a minority at the party’s national convention in Tampa, where more conservative voices will speak louder, sit in better seats and stay in more convenient hotels. That doesn’t faze Jerry Labriola, the chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party and the leader […]

Just under 28 percent of Connecticut’s Republicans and only 19 percent of Democrats cast ballots in last week’s primaries, Secretary of the State Denise W. Merrill announced Thursday. Turnout for both parties was down slightly from 2010, though the numbers remain much higher than when Connecticut last held its primaries in September. Merrill, Connecticut’s chief […]

The state’s largest labor coalition, the Connecticut AFL-CIO, overwhelmingly threw its support Wednesday to Democrat Elizabeth Esty in the 5th Congressional District race, further dimming the campaign prospects of state House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan. “Based on her record and her commitment to stand up for the issues that working families care about, we believe […]

Washington — The race for retiring Joe Lieberman’s Senate seat has turned into a horse race, with Republican Linda McMahon running neck-and-neck with Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy, a Rasmussen poll shows. The poll of 500 likely Connecticut voters, taken Monday and released Wednesday, showed 49 percent for McMahon and 46 percent for Murphy, a statistical […]

A new rift opened this week in the ongoing partisan dispute over a state program that allows prison inmates to shorten their sentences by participating in education, counseling and other re-entry programs. Minority Republicans on the legislature’s Judiciary Committee announced they would conduct a Sept. 18 informational meeting at the Legislative Office Building on the […]

In recent weeks, Aetna, ConnectiCare and Anthem all have requested rate hikes of 13 to 14 percent for small-business coverage. That’s just below the 15 percent threshold that could trigger a public hearing on the proposed increases. The requests have some health care advocates questioning whether increases are still too high. Insurance companies say the […]