Washington – A good-government group says the quality of congressional speeches have regressed by nearly a full grade level since 2005, but Connecticut’s lawmakers were above average, with Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman cracking the top 20. The Sunlight Foundation used a computer program to analyze hundreds of House and Senate floor speeches printed in the […]
Graded on the gift of gab, this delegation excels
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No GOP primary in 4th CD
With an announcement by Chris Meeks that will not pursue a primary in the 4th Congressional District, the Republicans are left with definite congressional primaries in only the 2nd and 5th districts. In the 2nd, Daria Novak is waging a primary for the second time in as many years. She lost two years ago to […]
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States encounter obstacles moving elderly and disabled into community
A multi-billion dollar federal initiative to move low-income elderly and disabled people from long-term care facilities into the community has fallen far short of its goals, as many states have struggled to cobble together housing and other services. Launched in 2007 during the Bush administration, the states initially projected placing 35,380 Medicaid recipients in the […]
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McMahon not turning the other cheek on slaps at WWE
The dig at Republican Linda McMahon over World Wrestling Entertainment was a throwaway line that literally gave Susan Bysiewicz the last word at a WNPR radio debate with Chris Murphy, her rival for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. “I’ll be darned if I let someone who sells sex and violence and pornography for a […]
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Graduation time for CT Mirror’s fellowship program
The Connecticut News Project’s fellowship program has graduated three talented journalists in the past two years.
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N.H. center with Communist tenant to get state aid
A New Haven community center whose bid for a state rehabilitation grant stalled due to its ties with the Communist Party has apparently won the blessing of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration. Malloy’s budget director, Office of Policy and Management Secretary Benjamin Barnes, confirmed Thursday that the center’s request for $300,000 to upgrade a facility […]
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Bysiewicz wants U.S. Senate race to turn on Wall Street
New Britain — From the opening seconds of a U.S. Senate debate carried live on public radio Thursday, Susan Bysiewicz cast U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy as beholden to Wall Street and a contributor to the dysfunction in Congress. It is a line of attack contradicted by left-leaning corporate critics like the Working Families Party and, […]
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Bysiewicz wants Senate race to turn on Wall Street
New Britain — From the opening seconds of a U.S. Senate debate carried live on public radio today, Susan Bysiewicz cast U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy as beholden to Wall Street and a contributor to the dysfunction in Congress. It’s been a hard sell. Her line of attack is contradicted by left-leaning corporate critics like the […]
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Report: Aging workforce threatens state’s economic recovery
By the time the state’s plodding economic recovery finally takes off in 2014, it could be too late to compensate for an aging workforce closing in on its retirement, says a report released today by the University of Connecticut. The Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis also repeated its call for state government to make smarter […]
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When economic news doesn’t fit the upbeat narrative
If there was any doubt that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is a glass-is-half-full kind of guy, it would be dispelled by the statement he issued today after Pratt & Whitney Aircraft announced the layoffs of 200 salaried employees in Connecticut. Except for the last paragraph, the governor was positively upbeat. “When these announcements are viewed […]
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Backus, Hartford Hospital parents moving ahead with affiliation plans
The parent companies of The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich and Hartford Hospital are moving ahead with plans to affiliate, under an agreement that would make Backus part of the Hartford HealthCare network. Backus Corporation and Hartford HealthCare announced Thursday that they signed a memorandum of understanding and will now work on developing a […]
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Change of plans. Meetings creating teacher evaluations will be public.
After holding numerous meetings behind closed doors to finalize details on how teachers and principals will be graded, the State Department of Education has said the public and the media can attend the sessions from now on. “Something is different at this meeting. At this meeting — in the interest of transparency — the state […]
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Connecticut lawmakers suspend millions of dollars in import duties for local companies
Washington — There may be a ban on earmarks — those special measures lawmakers in Congress pass to help specific constituents — but Connecticut lawmakers are helping local companies in another, little known way: tariffs. Companies in Connecticut that are poised to benefit this year include the maker of luxury cashmere fabrics in Stafford Springs, the […]
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Lieberman challenges Secret Service chief on agency’s ‘permissive’ culture
Sen. Joe Lieberman and other lawmakers told Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan they don’t believe him when he says there’s no widespread misconduct at the agency. Sullivan spoke publicly about the drunken romp of Secret Service agents in Cartagena, Colombia, at a Senate Homeland Security hearing held by Lieberman, the panel’s chairman. A 29-year Secret […]
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CCAG endorses Murphy and Donovan in Democratic primaries
One of the state’s leading progressive advocacy organizations, Connecticut Citizen Action Group, announced endorsements Wednesday for Democrats Christopher Murphy and Christopher Donovan. Murphy, Connecticut’s 5th District congressman, picked up the endorsement of the Democratic State Convention two weeks ago to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by four-term incumbent Joseph I. Lieberman of […]