Stamford — The reluctant campaigner of campaigns past, a relaxed Ann Romney stepped to a microphone Monday in an overcrowded ballroom in her new role as the most popular surrogate for the presidential campaign of her husband, Mitt Romney. The wife of a candidate who struggles to emotionally connect with voters, Romney choked up as […]

Washington — Sen. Joe Lieberman does not plan to go quietly into retirement. He put himself at the center of two high-profile scandals this weekend by saying he would initiate investigations into the Government Services  Administration, whose employees had a expensive romp in Las Vegas, and the hiring of prostitutes by Secret Service agents and […]

Correction: An earlier version of this story reported different totals for Ms. Colao’s loan burden. In rechecking her figures Monday, she said she owes a combined total of more than $30,000, of which more than $15,000 are in Stafford loans. The story and photo cutline have been corrected to reflect these figures. Washington — Like […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and other Democrats accepted accolades today from Martin Luther King III over what he praised at steps to open ballot access and strengthen voting rights, swimming against a tide in 32 other states. King, the son of the slain civil rights leader, complimented Malloy and Democrats for a host of progressive […]

The Gov. M. Jodi Rell Center for Public Service at the University of Hartford is having its first public event today day with a program about the state legislature called, “Why Students Should Care.” The program features a talk by two lobbyists, Marshall Collins and one of the former governor’s friends, Paddi LeShane of Sullivan […]

Rocky Hill — Christopher Shays and Linda McMahon stuck to well-practiced lines about his electability and her jobs acumen in a debate Sunday, a steady back-and-forth that is taking on the familiar rhythms of the old Miller Lite tastes-great, less-filling beer commercials. The rest of the five-candidate Republican field for U.S. Senate — Brian K. […]

Faltering state income tax revenues left Gov. Dannel P. Malloy reporting his largest budget deficit to date on Friday. And unless tax receipts reported this week by nonpartisan legislative analysts improve, Malloy’s budget plan for next year — including a state employee pension fund fix and increased education aid to towns — could be out […]

The House approved a controversial proposal to give collective bargaining rights to certain home care workers and daycare providers Friday night, a matter that has galvanized union supporters and opponents, people with disabilities, child care providers and critics of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. By passing the measure 84-57 after six hours of debate, the House […]

State legislators have made it clear they do not support a statewide policy of tying teacher tenure and pay to performance evaluations before the end of the coming school year. But will they support trying it out in 10 districts first? The administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is pitching that changes to tenure begin after […]

The often debated question of whether to legalize marijuana use for palliative purposes took a different twist Friday as the legislature’s tax-writing panel rejected an argument that this would be a drain on the state’s coffers. The Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee voted 36-15 to adopt the bill, which now heads to the House of […]

The legislature’s Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee chose “420 Day,” aka Zonker Harris Day on the Wesleyan campus, to approve medical marijuana.