By challenging Ned Lamont to an unprecedented series of 17 debates, Dan Malloy cast himself Wednesday as the de facto challenger in the Democratic primary for governor. Malloy won the Democratic endorsement by a 2-1 margin at last week’s state convention, but Lamont has a higher profile from his 2006 run for U.S. Senate and […]

Richard Blumenthal’s U.S. Senate campaign took friendly fire today. Vice President Joe Biden, who by his own admission often misfires with his humor and commentary, zinged his fellow Democrat over Blumenthal’s Vietnam controversy at an event for wounded soldiers. “I didn’t serve in Vietnam. I don’t want to make a Blumenthal mistake here,” Biden said according […]

Lincoln and Douglas got by with seven in 1858.  Will Malloy and Lamont do 17 in 2010? Dan Malloy, the endorsed Democratic candidate for governor, proposed today that he and his primary challenger, Ned Lamont, hold debates in every city and town with a daily newspaper. Malloy said he and Lamont – for different reasons […]

Hoping for a second chance at millions of dollars in federal stimulus money for school reform, Gov. M. Jodi Rell has signed into law a massive education bill. “We’re moving in one direction and one direction only and that’s to the top,” she said during a bill signing ceremony at Hockanum School in East Hartford. “We’ve all been talking […]

When Jennifer Zampi was laid off from her job last year, it took her months to get food subsidies to help her buy groceries to feed her two children. The 27-year-old New Britain resident was just one person on the long list of 5,000 people last December with pending applications for the federally funded Supplemental Nutrition […]

State legislators enthusiastically touted more than $220 million in projected tax revenue growth as a sign that Connecticut’s economy is on its way back from the worst downturn since the Great Depression. But while that $220 million helped the Democrat-controlled General Assembly and outgoing Gov. M. Jodi Rell balance their last budget without tax increases, […]

An arrangement that keeps Southern Connecticut State University’s president on the payroll even after she has been dismissed from her job is standard procedure, university officials have told state legislators. Departing President Cheryl Norton is entitled to an additional year’s pay and a sabbatical leave under existing university policies, Connecticut State University System officials said […]

Gov. M. Jodi Rell has vetoed sweeping energy legislation passed on the final day of the 2010 session after a late-night debate, attacking the path the bill followed to passage as vehemently as she did the measure’s content. Rell, whose administration was not consulted on the bill as it was drafted, called the process “disrespectful […]

Democratic state Rep. Tom Reynolds of Ledyard announced today he would not force a primary for the nomination for state comptroller. Reynolds received 24 percent of delegate votes at Saturday’s Democrat convention, well above the 15 percent minimum needed to guarantee a spot on the Democratic Aug. 10 primary ballot. “I have concluded that the interests of […]

Gov. M. Jodi Rell has signed into law a bill aimed at improving the state’s vocational-technical schools. Rell, who announced she signed the bill Monday, said the law will “strengthen” the schools “in many critical ways.” Sen. Thomas Gaffey, D-Meriden, co-chairman of the Education Committee said, the law “will resolve the inequity that had evolved” at […]

Lisa Wilson-Foley, a Simsbury businesswoman, said today she will pursue a Republican primary for the nomination for lieutenant governor. “I am ready for a primary so the voters can decide,” she said during a phone interview. “I think once you get out of the cozy relationships people have at the convention things can change.” Without […]

NEW LONDON — Rob Simmons ended his campaign for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, comparing a run against Linda McMahon’s money to the futility of Pickett’s Charge during the Civil War. “As somebody interested in military history, it was a foolish waste of people and resources, with a tremendously demoralizing outcome,” said […]

A Republican source says Rob Simmons told his staff Monday he will end his campaign for U.S. Senate at a press conference today in New London. On Monday night, Simmons called a press conference for 9 a.m. in New London to make an “announcement on the future of the campaign for U.S. Senate,” immediately prompting […]

Fresh off his back-to-back victories on health care reform and financial overhaul, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd is weighing his options for what’s next. Will he become the next president at the University of Connecticut? Will he take a job with the Obama Administration? Or will he fulfill his 5-year old daughter’s wishes and open an […]

Faculty members at Southern Connecticut State University issued a vote of “no confidence” in the university system’s chancellor and Board of Trustees chairman Monday, accusing them of reckless financial behavior and poor judgment. In a letter to Gov. M. Jodi Rell, the SCSU Faculty Senate asked for a state investigation into actions by CSU Chancellor […]