With Democrats defending five open seats, Republicans have a chance to capture control of the Connecticut Senate tonight for the first time since 1994, when John G. Rowland won his first term as governor and the GOP captured a 19-17 majority.
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Andrew Maynard’s family says senator making progress in recovery
Sen. Andrew Maynard’s family continues “to be optimistic about his ability to achieve a full recovery” from a serious brain injury caused by a fall last summer.
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Bridgeport is a focus of today’s state legislative primaries
The main bout today is Tom Foley vs. John P. McKinney in the Republican primary for governor, but the careers of eight incumbents in the General Assembly also are on the line in Democratic primaries, including one race that’s attracted liberal activists.
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Not exactly a scoop, but we know the winners of these races
No, we’re not prescient. These are the legislators with no major-party opposition for re-election to the Connecticut General Assembly in 2014. It’s 42 of 151 House members and eight of 36 senators.
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Three days to go, with 296 bills awaiting a final vote
The General Assembly began the final three days of its 2014 session Monday with 56 bills already passed and sent to the governor – and five times as many awaiting final action in one chamber after winning passage in the other. Let the negotiations begin.
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Need to pass a bill? Now, you check with the GOP minority
As the Connecticut General Assembly trudges towards its adjournment deadline of midnight Wednesday, the fate of dozens of bills relies on whether House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R- Norwalk, chooses to display a square red card at his desk in the House of Representatives.
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Op-ed: Adoptee access — a personal story
Will the state ‘grant’ adult adoptees the right that is ours? The right to know who we really are? Will they right an egregious wrong?
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Op-ed: Why does legislature beat up on businesses when CT needs jobs?
Unemployment remains higher than national and regional averages, and the workforce continues to shrink.
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Ted Kennedy Jr. to announce Tuesday for state Senate
At age 52, Ted Kennedy Jr. is set to begin his career as a candidate seeking a seat in the Senate at 6 p.m. Tuesday at a library. It’s not the JFK Library in Boston, and the seat he is seeking would send him to Hartford, not Washington.
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Op-ed: Juvenile offenders need a second chance
As the president of a university, I can confirm what all parents know — that the children who arrive on our campus have a lot of growing up left to do.
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Advocates concede defeat on aid-in-dying bill in 2014
The campaign for passage of an aid-in-dying law in Connecticut in 2014 ended Tuesday with a concession that the bill does not have the support in the legislature’s Public Health Committee to reach the House floor. “In an election year, in a short-session year, we were so pleased to expand the debate and to get a public hearing,” said Tim Appleton, manager of the campaign to pass the bill.
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Op-ed: Connecticut deserves an open, transparent, accessible government
Are we well served by our current insular, inaccessible state government? No.
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Opinion: CT government’s conflicted feelings about transparency
Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Executive Order #39, signed last month, creates an open data portal to “further Connecticut’s commitment to transparency, efficiency, social progress, and economic expansion.” But there are other kinds of actions — being undertaken by the state legislature — that would undercut the trend toward greater transparency.
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Holder-Winfield quits House, joins Senate
Sen. Gary Holder-Winfield addresses colleagues after taking the oath of office. Gary Holder-Winfield resigned Friday from the House of Representatives and immediately took his place in the Connecticut Senate. Holder-Winfield, a Democrat from New Haven, was elected Tuesday in a special election to succeed Toni Harp, who resigned her Senate seat after her election as […]
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General Assembly staff exempt from disclosure rules
It was an obvious question after George Gallo abruptly resigned last week as the House Republicans’ chief of staff amid FBI inquiries into his political consulting business: Was he the only legislative aide in Hartford with a side business involving politics?