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Tourism Panel Tells Businesses: Lobby Lawmakers To Preserve State Marketing Funds
The Hartford CourantLeaders of the state tourism office, a hotel lobbying group and a regional chamber of commerce urged about 50 listeners Wednesday to lobby legislators to preserve tourism marketing funding. Randy Fiveash, who heads the state tourism office, said the...Tags: United Technologies Corporation, Hotels and Accommodations, Stamford, Mutual Funds, Trips and Vacations
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Impatience Showing On Gun Legislation
The Hartford CourantThe louder the public pledges of bipartisan cooperation and resolve, the deeper the undercurrents of private distrust and resentment — or at least, that often seems to be the rule in legislative politics. And it seems to be taking hold as the...Tags: Gun Control, Executive Branch, Republican Party, Government, Personal Weapon Control
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GOP Hopefuls Circling For Gubernatorial Bid
The Hartford CourantAbraham Lincoln's birthday last Tuesday marked the start of months of local Republican organization dinners and fundraising events. The annual ritual of honoring Lincoln provides an informal start to the party's 2014 race for governor. Four candidates...Tags: Elections, Republican Party, Executive Branch, Government, Michael Fedele
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McKinney Rips Malloy Budget As "Shell Game" Filled With Gimmicks
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday will propose extending several taxes that had been scheduled to expire in order to help pay for his overall plan to increase state spending by nearly 10 percent over the next two years, according to legislators briefed...Tags: Executive Branch, Republican Party, Government, Long Island Sound, Business
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Post-Newtown Legislative Task Force Begins Work; Malloy Talks Gun Control In White House Visit
The Hartford CourantLegislative leaders pledged bipartisan cooperation and quick action Friday at the first meeting of their new task force on changing state laws and policies on gun control, school security and mental health in response to the Dec. 14 school massacre in...Tags: Gun Control, Executive Branch, U.S. Senate, Assault, Barack Obama
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Legislative Task Force Leaders: No Pressure To Keep Up With N.Y. In Passing Post-Newtown Gun Restrictions
The Hartford CourantGeneral Assembly leaders, in announcing Tuesday the formation of a task force on the Newtown massacre, said they want to pass a major legislative response by the end of February but denied feeling pressured by New York state lawmakers' having already...Tags: Gun Control, Executive Branch, Republican Party, Andrew Cuomo, Assault
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Legislative Task Force To Manage Newtown Reform Bills
The Hartford CourantThe Newtown massacre has generated so much proposed legislation — to expand the state's assault-weapons ban, make gun permit holders' names available publicly, reform the mental health system, and increase school security — that leaders of the...Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Family, Personal Weapon Control, Mental Health
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Resistance Looms To Newtown Bills; Lobbyists Already Hired
The Hartford CourantWhen state lawmakers opened the 2013 General Assembly session Wednesday, the State Capitol rang with commitment for measures about gun control and other issues raised by the Dec. 14 Newtown school massacre. Emotions were raw — the governor...Tags: Gun Control, Executive Branch, Crime, Law and Justice, Gaming Industry, Entertainment Software Association
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Newtown Tragedy Hangs Over 'State Of The State' Speech; Budget Issues Take Back Seat As Legislature Reconvenes
The Hartford CourantThe Dec. 14 Newtown school shootings dominated opening day at the state Capitol Wednesday, as lawmakers arrived to face a projected budget deficit of $1 billion in the next fiscal year and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy exhorted them to take action to prevent...Tags: Gun Control, Republican Party, Executive Branch, Connecticut Labor Markets, U.S. Senate
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J. Brendan Sharkey Never Expected To Be House Speaker
The Hartford CourantIn the fall of 1979, an ambitious young athlete named John McKinney was chosen as one of only three sophomores on the varsity soccer team at Fairfield Prep. The young McKinney looked up in those days to the team's seniors — one of whom was J....Tags: Elections, T-Mobile, Republican Party, Andrew W Roraback, Democratic Party
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NRA Response Comes Under Attack
The Hartford CourantThe National Rifle Association's response Friday to the Newtown school massacre — a proposal to post armed police officers in every school in the country — failed to impress many in Connecticut on a day when funerals were still being held...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Gun Control, Republican Party, Crime, Law and Justice, Anthony Guglielmo
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Jon Lender: Lawmakers Say It's A Tough Time For Judges To Seek Raises
The Hartford CourantSalary increases for state judges might well be among the casualties of the state's deepening budget crisis if comments by top state legislative leaders are any indication. "Any expenditure of this kind will be difficult, if not impossible, given the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Civil and Public Service, J Brendan Sharkey, Donald E Jr Williams
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