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Donovan To Step Back From House Speaker's Duties Amid Campaign Finance Director's Arrest
The Hartford CourantDemocrat Chris Donovan will temporarily relinquish some of his duties as speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives but is not abandoning his Congressional bid in the wake of a federal investigation that led to the arrest this week of his...Tags: Lawyers, Regional Authority, Republican National Conventions, Executive Branch, Southbury
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Malloy signs medical pot bill into law
Medical marijuana will no longer be illegal in Connecticut. Gov. Dannel Malloy signed the medical pot bill into law Friday, saying that, “With careful regulation and safeguards, this law will allow a doctor and a patient to decide what is in that...
Tags: Lawyers, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Multiple Sclerosis, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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A Dead Issue: Will CT's Death Row Inmates Die of Old Age?
Here’s a little life-or-death quiz for you. The 11 guys now on Connecticut’s death row will: A) Never be executed because this state has repealed the death penalty; B) Get juiced because the new law only ends the death penalty for future...
Tags: Murder, American Civil Liberties Union, Andrew W Roraback, Death Penalty, William Petit
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House Speaker's Holding Jobs Bill Hostage To Wage Hike Hurts Residents
Democratic State House Speaker Chris Donovan surely doesn't want to wear the label of "jobs killer" at a time of high unemployment and considering his promising candidacy for Connecticut's 5th District seat in Congress. But that's what he risks in...
Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Business, Don Williams, Democratic Party, Labor Legislation
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Prague, Retiring This Year, Praised In Senate; Says, 'I'm Not Gonna Cry 'Cause It'll Cost Me 5 Bucks.'
The Hartford CourantIt’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and a number of state senators took that saying literally Wednesday when they arose to give speeches in praise of Sen. Edith Prague, D-Columbia, who is retiring from the Senate after 18...Tags: John Fonfara, Katharine Hepburn, Prague (Czech Republic), Edith Prague, John A Kissel
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General Assembly: An 'Education Session' That Became So Much More
The Hartford Courant— As lawmakers raced to finish their work before Wednesday night's midnight deadline, they were already debating the session's accomplishments and failures. The tradition of the state legislature during election years has been to postpone...Tags: Breads, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, American Civil Liberties Union, Death Penalty
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Senate Debates Illegal Electronic Monitoring -- But Only Temporarily
The Hartford CourantRepublicans and Democrats clashed briefly Wednesday night over whether employers should be allowed to monitor their employees electronically under state law. Senate Republican leader John McKinney was in the middle of a stentorian stemwinder, railing...Tags: Employees, Employment Opportunities, Employment, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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Lawmakers in Connecticut and in Congress may finally get tough on racial profiling
Lawmakers in Connecticut’s General Assembly and in Congress, embarrassed by scandals raging in places like our own East Haven and Sanford, Florida, now actually appear ready to do something serious to combat racial profiling. Connecticut’s...
Tags: Trayvon Martin, Lawyers, Minority Groups, American Civil Liberties Union, Dannel P. Malloy
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Tough road ahead for lawmakers who want to label genetically modified foods
It was a State Capitol gathering of the faithful last week, and the message delivered by the anti-genetically-modified-food advocates was simple and direct: “People have a right to know what they’re putting in their bodies.”
The problem...Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, Dannel P. Malloy , Genetic Engineering, Judges, Milford (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Red-Light Camera Bill Dogged By Charge That 'It's About The Money'
The Hartford CourantThe Connecticut legislators pushing a perennially rejected bill to use red-light cameras to ticket violators say that this year's version should overcome past criticism that the cameras are less about safety than the millions in municipal revenue they...Tags: Fines, Rocky Hill, American Civil Liberties Union, Canton (Hartford, Connecticut), East Hartford
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Plan Would Cap State Tax on Wholesale Gasoline For 1 Year
The Hartford Courant— State gasoline taxes would drop by about a penny a gallon under a one-year cap on the gross receipts tax, as proposed Monday by Democratic legislative leaders. The penny savings is at today's wholesale prices, and the savings could rise to 7.5...Tags: Len Suzio, Consumer Confidence, Parties and Movements, Groton, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Red-Light Cameras A Go — Too Much Green At Stake
The Hartford CourantCamera creep continues through this session of the General Assembly. A bill authorizing the installation of private vendors' red light cameras at public intersections in the state's larger communities received the approval of the Transportation...Tags: Lawyers, Fines, Photography and Video, Executive Branch, Lobbying
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