by Christine Stuart | Nov 9, 2017 3:28pm
Posted to: Public Safety | Transportation | DMV | Berlin | Meriden | Monroe | Norwich | Ridgefield | Wethersfield
HARTFORD, CT — The Connecticut Police Chiefs Association is pushing back with its own academic research against the third annual report to the Connecticut Racial Profiling Prohibition Advisory Board.
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by Christine Stuart | Mar 9, 2017 1:07pm
Posted to: Town News | Ridgefield | Legal | State Budget | Pensions | State Capitol
HARTFORD, CT — A group of local elected officials said Thursday that it is illegal for Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to shift about a third of the state’s contributions to the Teacher’s Retirement System to cities and towns.
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by Elizabeth Regan | Oct 13, 2015 12:52pm
Posted to: Business | Economic Development | The Economy | Town News | North Haven | Ridgefield | Jobs | Labor | Nonprofits | State Capitol | Transportation
Three statewide advocacy groups with a history of disagreement on many issues have agreed to sit down for an economic summit with the goal of finding common ground, and maybe, just maybe, doing something about it.
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by Christine Stuart | Feb 26, 2013 6:30am
Posted to: Town News | Ridgefield | Transportation
He may not have won his party’s nomination for governor back in 2010, but Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi isn’t giving up on the idea of bringing back highway tolls.
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by Christine Stuart | Dec 20, 2012 5:39pm
Posted to: Town News | Newtown | Ridgefield | State Budget
Behind the scenes Wednesday at the state Capitol, before the legislature voted on a deficit mitigation package, Rep. John Frey of Ridgefield, scrambled to get his idea into the legislation.
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