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GOP, Democrats Battle In High Court Over Ballot Position
The Hartford CourantTime is running out on exactly how the election ballot will look this November in all 169 towns in Connecticut. With towns needing to be notified of the ballot order by Saturday and overseas ballots needing to be mailed to members of the military by...Tags: Government, Parties and Movements, Stephen Dargan, Voting, Elections
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Crime & Punishment: Someone Smashed the Head of a Virgin Mary Statue and Replaced it With a Garden Gnome
A man patrolling West Haven in a T-shirt reading "Police Narcotics" was not a cop but some weirdo who likes to handcuff people, the actual police told the Connecticut Post. In addition to having the shirt and a few pairs of cuffs, 22-year-old Tuy...
Tags: Government, Parties and Movements, Windsor Locks, Elections, Prosecution
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People, not politicians, killed gun control
Politicians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Congress — on a bipartisan vote — outlawed gun sales to felons and...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Elections, Gun Control, Laws, Mitt Romney
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McManus: The NRA has won
Politicians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Congress — on a bipartisan vote — outlawed guns sales to felons...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Elections, Gun Control, Mitt Romney, Laws
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Stunning Newton Comeback Yields Strange Bedfellows
The Hartford CourantBridgeport continues to challenge Waterbury as the home of the most embarrassing and bewildering politics in Connecticut. Former state Sen. Ernie Newton did last week what few in Connecticut politics have achieved: He subdued bumptious Working Families...Tags: Government, Parties and Movements, Voting, Elections, Edwin A. Gomes
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Ann Romney's Candor Applauded At GOP Fundraiser In Stamford
The Hartford CourantAnn Romney was a stay-at-home mother who raised five boys largely, she says, without outside help, a political wife who battled both multiple sclerosis and breast cancer, and the trusted partner who urged her husband to run for president when most of...Tags: Parties and Movements, Emergency Health Procedures, Elections, Republican Party, Mitt Romney
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Governors Malloy, Markell Travel Together To Kuwait, Afghanistan; Two Democrats Love Traveling; Markell Campaigned In Hartford For Malloy
In Afghanistan this week, they were side by side. In Kuwait, too. Not long ago, Govs. Dannel P. Malloy of Connecticut and Jack Markell of Delaware were together in Hartford as well — to talk about the best ways to create jobs. And a year before...Tags: Government, Jack Markell, Travel, Elections, M. Jodi Rell
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NU Enjoys Power Connections
The Hartford CourantNortheast Utilities, now facing scrutiny over its slow reconnection of storm-damaged power lines, has established a network of connections with Connecticut's political establishment, including Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration and other...Tags: Government, Parties and Movements, Regulatory Policy and Organizations, Companies and Corporations, Elections
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New poll: Majority disapproves of Malloy, almost as unpopular as Florida's and Ohio's GOP govs
Most eyes were fixed last week on the results of a new Public Policy Poll showing Democrat Chris Murphy beating Republicans Chris Shays and Linda McMahon in the 2012 contest for Joe Lieberman 's U.S. Senate seat.
While that horse race is just getting...Tags: Government, Chris Shays, Polls, Elections, John Kasich
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Six Former GOP Chairs All Endorse Linda McMahon
In a big boost to U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon and a blow to former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, six former state Republican chairmen on Thursday all endorsed McMahon. The independently wealthy McMahon doesn't need any money from the chairs, but she...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Cheshire, John G. Rowland, Chris Shays, Elections
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Does Malloy really believe what he's saying?
If you make money with money, the Great Recession and its record-breaking rate of unemployment doesn't feel so bad. Most of your assets are tied up in the stock market. After the 2007 crash, you felt some pain, but securities rebounded. Since your...Tags: Government, Shareholders, Litigation and Regulation, Danbury, Dannel P. Malloy
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You mean we coddled the rich for nothing?
A new national report confirms that raising taxes on the super rich DOES NOT lead them to sell their homes, pull their kids out of school and leave their communities in order to seek a new life in a state with marginally lower taxes. Here is a link to the...Tags: Government, State Income Tax, Republican Party, New York City, State Budgets
Sep 12, 2012
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Sep 4, 2012
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Jul 26, 2012
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Jul 25, 2012
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May 25, 2012
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Apr 23, 2012
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Nov 16, 2011
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Nov 12, 2011
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Sep 30, 2011
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Sep 29, 2011
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Sep 25, 2011
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Sep 13, 2011
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