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Connecticut Lawmakers Consider Changes to Digital Billboards
Our public bureaucrats don’t normally pay much attention to matters involving seconds. (At least, not when you’re standing in line at the DMV or waiting for your income tax refund check to arrive.) There is one area, however, where state...
Tags: Law Enforcement, Trials, Judges, Lamar Advertising Company, Copley Square
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Budget Provides Battleground For Governor And 2 Who Might Try To Replace Him In 2014
The Hartford CourantThe 2014 gubernatorial campaign is not yet in full swing, but the budget debate over the next six weeks at the state Capitol could hint at the bitter political clashes to come. Three of the expected candidates in the governor's race will be at the...Tags: U.S. Congress, Government Health Care, Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), Parties and Movements, John McKinney
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Former Federal Judge To Help Decide Who Gets Sandy Hook Money, Sources Say
The Hartford CourantThe foundation charged with distributing more than $11 million donated after the Sandy Hook massacre is bringing in a former federal judge to help decide how that money will be allocated, two sources familiar with the selection said Thursday. Alan H....Tags: Trials, Politics, Adam Lanza, Judges, Government
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Ritter's Lobbying Raises Questions
The Hartford CourantWhen is a lobbyist not a lobbyist? The answer, according to the complicated state laws that determine who's allowed to influence government officials in decision-making (which is what lobbying is, pretty much), is: When a person lobbies a public official...Tags: Bonds, Religion and Belief, Trials, Economy, Business and Finance, Regional Authority
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Developer Suggests State's Controversial Land Swap May Be Revived
The Hartford CourantLast year, conservationists celebrated the death of the so-called Haddam land swap — a controversial deal approved by the state legislature in 2011 to let private developers acquire 17 acres of state-owned land overlooking the Connecticut River in...Tags: Edward Meyer, Parties and Movements, Environmental Issues, Regional Authority, Republican Party
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Connecticut's Hotel and Convention Industry Unites At A New York Landmark
The Hartford CourantNEW YORK — In a dimly lit room inside Grand Central Station, with a high, ornate, painted wood ceiling and a stone fireplace with a carved, winged lion insignia, a piece of the Connecticut economy came to life. There, in a gathering late Thursday,...Tags: Mystic, Politics, Downtown (Brooklyn, New York), Travel, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Lawsuit Over Regional Trash Agency Contract Provides Glimpse Into Capitol Communications
The Hartford CourantA bitter lawsuit that charges favoritism and illegal lobbying provides a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes communications and inner workings of government at the state Capitol. The pitched battle between two high-profile Hartford Democrats has been...Tags: Business Enterprises, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Values, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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State's Leaders Talk Cuts, Enact Spending
The Hartford CourantThe state's political leaders may not set out to confuse the public, but they don't mind if that's one result of their conflicting declarations and policies. It may be easier to win the hefty new Breakthrough Prize for Life Sciences that were handed out...Tags: Parties and Movements, Stamford, Economy, Business and Finance, Republican Party, Politics
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It's Not Just The Economy: State Must Cut Spending
Connecticut, one of the richest states per capita in the union, just can't seem to get on the plus side of the budget ledger. It's past time that it did. Despite a special session of the General Assembly called in December to eliminate a projected...
Tags: Public Finance, Collective Contract, Regional Authority, Politics, Career and Workplace
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Long Hours And Sharp Elbows
Hartford Courant / Fox CTFor much of his life, Dannel Malloy has been an avid fan of hockey and rugby. Both rough-and-tumble sports are highly physical and require quick movements, sharp elbows and fast decisions. A rugby player for 22 years, Malloy finally quit when his...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Democratic Governors Association, Lifestyle and Leisure, Ice Hockey
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State Scrapped School Safety Funding Program
The Hartford CourantAs the legislature convenes just weeks after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, its focus is sure to include the issue of school security and questions over how to pay for needed upgrades. But fewer than three years ago the state pulled the plug...Tags: Old Lyme, Manufacturing and Engineering, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Killingly, Virginia Tech
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To Fill Budget Gap, Malloy Might Need To Resort To Borrowing
The Hartford CourantNo one expected Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to offer solutions to the state's $1.1 billion budget shortfall for the coming year on Wednesday, and he didn't do so. We'll hear the unpalatable options soon enough. One of them could be borrowing hundreds of...Tags: Employees, Personal Income, Regional Authority, Interior Policy, Politics
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