Hartford City Council President rJo Winch, state Rep. Douglas McCrory Will...
Hartford City Council president rJo Winch and state Rep. Douglas McCrory both said Monday that they will not be running for mayor of Hartford. Winch says she will seek reelection to the city council in...
View ArticleChris Dodd, Dick Blumenthal, Nancy Wyman, John Rowland Attend Retirement...
Both Republicans and Democrats came out for the retirement party of Channel 30's chief political reporter Tom Monahan, who has been covering Connecticut for the past 45 years. The crowd included U.S....
View ArticleU.S. Rep. John Larson calls Social Security a "bedrock" social program, wary...
The president's bipartisan debt panel has come up with a number of controversial proposals regarding Social Security in its draft report. (Among them: gradually increase the age until it reaches 69 in...
View ArticleFBI Raids Two Lower Fairfield County Hedge Funds - Level Global Investors and...
The FBI has raided two hedge funds in lower Fairfield County as part of a widening probe of the investment industry. The raids were at Level Global Investors in Greenwich and Diamondback Capital...
View ArticleState Rep. Steve Fontana As Next Insurance Commissioner? No Decisions Made...
Will state Rep. Steve Fontana become the state's next insurance commissioner? Fontana, a veteran Democratic lawmaker from North Haven, is now in the running after losing his re-election bid in an upset...
View ArticleNov. 2 Election Results Are Certified: Malloy Still Wins
The final tally of the state's closest gubernatorial election in 56 years entered the historical record Wednesday - with the official certification of Democrat Dan Malloy's 6,404-vote victory over...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving!!
To all our readers, we say: Happy Thanksgiving! Thanks for coming back and reading this blog on a regular basis in what many considered to be the most interesting election season in 40 years. That was...
View ArticleTim Bannon: From Yale To Doonesbury To Governor-Elect's Chief Of Staff;...
When Tim Bannon walked onto the Yale University campus as a freshman in the late 1960s, he unknowingly embarked on a lifetime of chance opportunities that would profoundly shape his life and career. In...
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Doonesbury On Chief Of Staff Tim Bannon: Garry Trudeau Speaks Out On His...
Garry Trudeau, the creator of the famed "Doonesbury'' comic strip, is known for maintaining his privacy and generally avoiding interviews. But he recently agreed to an e-mail exchange regarding his...
View ArticleRell Appointee Gets $103K Job On Permanent State Payroll
Today's Government Watch column:As a $107,000-a-year deputy commissioner at the state Department of Consumer Protection since 2007, Jacqueline Mandyck was one of dozens of political appointees of...
View ArticleSen. Joe Lieberman Slams Wikileaks For "Outrageous, Reckless, And...
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who serves as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security committee, is responding with outrage to the release by Wikileaks of thousands of cables between and among diplomats...
View ArticleSen. Chris Dodd Being Considered As Chairman of Motion Picture Association;...
U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, who has remained relatively quiet about exactly what he will be doing after his six-year term expires in January, is being considered to be the next chairman of the...
View ArticleGov. Rell Calls For $4 Million In Upgrades To Church Building Near State...
When the state bought a church down the street from the state Capitol three years ago, it was seen as the future home for storage space for the state library and practice space for the Hartford...
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Keeping Up With The Kardashians: Dick Blumenthal Hails The Announced End Of...
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is keeping up with the Kardashians. Blumenthal announced Monday that an attorney for the Kardashians - known around the country for their reality show - had...
View ArticleDodd to the MPAA? Not so fast
Rumors are swirling that U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd's post-Senate career plan is a $1.2 million gig lobbying for the Motion Picture Association of America. Dodd's office won't comment but on numerous...
View ArticleJoe Lieberman on DADT
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman praised the Pentagon's new report on gays and lesbians in the military, saying it makes clear that most active duty military members have no problem allowing gays to serve...
View ArticleU.S. Sen. Chris Dodd's Farewell Speech On Senate Floor; Recalls Sitting In...
The following is the prepared text of U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd's farewell speech on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon. Dodd did not seek re-election this year, and he will be stepping down in January...
View ArticleSen. Dodd Calls For Civility In His Farewell Speech; Says Politics In...
In his farewell address after 30 years in the U.S. Senate, Chris Dodd called Tuesday for a new level of civility in an era of hyper-partisanship and said that Republicans and Democrats can pass good...
View ArticleConnected Appointee Gets Immediate Raise In New Job
Jacqueline Mandyck of West Hartford -- a political appointee of Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's who had stood to lose her job as a $107,000-a-year deputy commissioner of consumer protection in January,...
View ArticleChris Dodd and the press
In his final speech on the Senate floor, Chris Dodd bemoaned the rise of the "24/7 political media industry that seems to favor speculation over analysis and conflict over consensus." The new media...
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