Southbury — House Speaker Chris Donovan endorsed an expansion of Medicare and a voluntary ban on negative ads at a forum Sunday for the four candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in the 5th Congressional District. Elizabeth Esty is with him on Medicare, not so much on the ad pledge. Esty was the only one of […]

Close to 350 community activists, immigrants, local leaders and residents marched down Main Street in East Haven Saturday, hoping to draw attention to issues of alleged racial profiling in East Haven’s police department. Marchers called for an end to alleged racial profiling Flanked by a heavy police presence, the group carried signs and shouted slogans […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s $864 million plan to expand and renovate the UConn Health Center netted university President Susan Herbst more than a few notes from other university leaders who were shocked that any state would invest so much in an academic medical center in this economic climate. This week, it helped UConn land a […]

Hopes for the future of “personalized medicine” lie at the heart of the state’s investment in a new research institute for The Jackson Laboratory on the UConn Health Center’s Farmington campus. Proponents often talk of developing the ability to tailor treatments for cancer and other complex ailments to each person’s unique genetic code. But as Dr. […]

Washington — In town for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association — and to strengthen his ties to the Obama administration — Gov. Dannel Malloy can’t hold back his enthusiasm for the president. Upon leaving the White House Friday after a meeting with President Obama, a group of Democratic governors was asked by […]

The state’s election cops intensified their warning to legislators Friday that their ability to oversee public campaign financing this fall is in jeopardy from deep budget cuts. The State Elections Enforcement Commission needs nearly double its existing contingent of account examiners if it hopes to monitor a projected caseload that includes nearly 340 campaign grants […]

Washington — Janet and Quan Hightower are middle-income homeowners in Hartford who, like a rising number of working families, are finding it hard to keep up with housing costs. A new study says the Hightower family is one of 137,000 in Connecticut spending at least half their income on housing. The Hightowers, who have four […]

Is skipping the normal vetting process the best way to correct a legislative mistake made six years ago? By a vote of a 120 to 8, the state House of Representatives declared Thursday night that it was. The House approved and sent to the Senate an “emergency-certified” bill that restores local regulatory control over solid-waste […]

Washington — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is the latest target of a terror campaign that involves packages filled with a powdery substance that initial testing have shown to be harmless. The senator’s Hartford office received a suspicious package Thursday, and staffers quickly quarantined it and called local and Capitol Hill authorities, said Lieberman spokeswoman Whitney […]

Mansfield — As the three Democratic candidates vying to be Connecticut’s next U.S. senator took the stage for their first debate, the directions were simple: keep it positive and don’t attack your Democratic competitors. “Refrain from negative comments,” said Ronald Schurin, a UConn professor who was moderator. “It will not be like the Republican [presidential] […]

The House of Representatives adopted an emergency fix Thursday to the state’s right-to-know law that could break a legal logjam blocking the release of voter lists and other omnibus public registries. The bill, which passed 120-11 and now heads to the Senate, would allow public agencies to release major voter and property databases without the […]