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As Another Base-Closing Threat Looms, Groton is Ready
The Hartford CourantThe Pentagon is likely to seek another round of base closings in Obama's upcoming budget proposal and this time, unlike last year, it won't go away easily. That's the assessment from Bob Ross, director of the state's Office of Military Affairs -- who'...Tags: Military Equipment, The Pentagon, Bob Ross, Leon Panetta, Joe Courtney
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Massacre Puts Spotlight On Law To Seize Guns From Mentally Unstable
The Hartford CourantHere are a few items from Connecticut's annals of guns and mental illness: —A man who once was arrested for weapon violations was reported to Berlin police in 2004 by his landlord for having allegedly said, "I am going to kill myself and take a...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), East Haven, Interior Policy, Shootings, Substance Abuse
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Roraback Clear Choice In 5th District Battle
The Hartford CourantThe 5th Congressional District will tell us if voters mean what they say. You've heard it, you may have uttered the same sentiments yourself. Why can't our elected officials stop being so partisan and nasty? Why won't they work together? If that's what...Tags: John G. Rowland, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Republican Party, Kevin Rennie, Same-Sex Marriage
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Ban Buying Soda With Food Stamps
Heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes and sleep apnea are just a few of the medical ailments associated with obesity. Yet we Americans keep eating more, exercising less and getting fatter. One-third of us are obese, and another...
Tags: Diabetes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Sleep Apnea, Cancer, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
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State Official, Under Scrutiny For Alleged 'Bullying,' Is Paid $2,300 A Week Not To Work
The Hartford CourantA high-ranking state Insurance Department official, who once served as the acting commissioner of the agency, has been paid not to show up at work since Aug. 10 — at the rate of $2,300 a week — during an investigation of alleged "harassment,...Tags: Simsbury, Dannel P. Malloy , Primaries, Elections, Democratic Party
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Malloy Using State Agencies To Develop Behind-The-Scenes Media Strategy
With Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy's approval rating steadily below 50 percent in polls, he and his lieutenants have embarked on an unusual media-management effort — directing dozens of officials to produce "communications plans" to put out a steady...Tags: Dannel P. Malloy , Budgets and Budgeting, Elections, Democratic Party, Politics
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Threat To Democracy Averted!
For newspapers such as The Hartford Courant, ``street sales'' are a mixed blessing. How much better it would be for the newspaper accountant and advertisers and just about everybody if you subscribed and got it delivered to your door -- or at least to one...Tags: News Media, Chicago Public Library, Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine
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Beyond The Lockstep Of Left, Right, Left
Ann Coulter, the willowy Cohen look-alike and conservative provocateur, insists that she is more of a man than any liberal. You know she's just having a little fun. Many talk radio/public affairs TV/newspaper columnists tend to spread the hyperbole a...Tags: Abortion, The New York Times, Same-Sex Marriage, Joe Lieberman, Elections
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The State of Connecticut Has an Array of Valuable and Strange Artifacts
Painting of George Washington: $20 million. Two-headed calf: $2,000. Iconic industrial statue: $1.5 million. New Haven church records covering 138 years: $2,550. Documents of a disgraced governor: $500,000. Those are just a sampling of the hundreds of...
Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), George Washington, Simsbury, Arts, Connecticut Historical Society
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'Political Landscape' Photo Exhibit At State Capitol Building
Tim Coffey, a Stamford photographer, takes political animals and puts them in their natural habitats. Coffee has a new exhibit of his photographs, opening on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at the Concourse Gallery of the State Capitol Building in Hartford. It's...
Tags: Concourse, Themis Klarides, J Brendan Sharkey, Joe Lieberman, Stamford
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The deaths of bicyclists force Connecticut to rethink its roads
Connecticut transportation officials are putting a lethal three-mile stretch of Route 44 (aka Burnside Avenue) in East Hartford on a radical "road diet" before it kills again. One state Department of Transportation official calls it a "groundbreaking"...
Tags: Dannel P. Malloy , Elections, Politics, Cycling, Services and Shopping
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Cheshire Home Invasion Case: Key Dates
On July 23, 2007, Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her children, Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11, were slain in their Cheshire home. Dr. William Petit Jr. was badly beaten. JULY 23, 2007: Joshua Komisarjevsky and Steven Hayes are arrested fleeing the Petits'...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Meriden, Prisons, Dannel P. Malloy , Trials
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