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Analysis | What Does the NSA Surveillance Program Mean For You?: Jun 15, 2013 2:35 pm; Yale constitutional law scholar Anjali Dalal suggests that when it comes to grilling the National Security Agency on...more »

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Extra Extra! & Op-Ed

Malloy Signs Bill Changing Campaign Finance Reforms of 2005

by Hugh McQuaid
Posted: Jun 19, 2013 4:05pm

Voters Split On Slot Machines At OTB’s

by Melissa Bailey
Posted: Jun 19, 2013 12:29pm

Final result on “True Vote” about adding slots to Sports Haven: almost exactly even.

Home of Salem Man Killed in Police Shooting Was Subject of Contention in Recent Divorce

by The Salem Connect
Posted: Jun 19, 2013 10:43am

Read Elizabeth Ciak Regan's latest report and watch the video of the shooting.

New Haven Mayoral Candidate Makes Keno An Issue

by Melissa Bailey
Posted: Jun 19, 2013 10:04am

States Expanding Medicaid Face Their Own Challenges

by Paul Gionfriddo
Posted: Jun 19, 2013 9:00am

The 24 (and counting) states, including Connecticut, that have chosen to expand Medicaid will face challenges of their own.

Biden Says Progress Is Being Made On Gun Control

by Jacqueline Wattles
Posted: Jun 18, 2013 5:09pm

OLR Summarizes Major Public Acts

by Staff reports
Posted: Jun 18, 2013 10:59am

Half asleep during the 2013 legislative session? The Office of Legislative Research provides a Cliff Notes version.

OP-ED | The Land of Steady Habits

by Brian O'Shaughnessy
Posted: Jun 18, 2013 10:51am

For the past two years, colleagues and I have been working within Connecticut to promote the concept of social innovation invest- ments. The high profile tools are social impact bonds and pay-for-success contracting structures, but there are others.

Hands-Free Electronics Are Still Hazardous

by CTByTheNumbers
Posted: Jun 18, 2013 7:51am

For the second time in recent weeks, a major driving safety study has concluded that hands-free devices produce dangers much the same as hand-held cell phones for drivers.

Ground Broken On Alexion

by Melissa Bailey
Posted: Jun 17, 2013 2:45pm

Thirteen years after the city “forced” Alexion from Science Park out to the suburbs, the fast-growing pharmaceutical company returned with shovels and a pledge to take part in a “renaissance” in downtown New Haven.

Delays Hamper State’s Doctor Discipline Process

by Colleen McKown & Lisa Chedekel
Posted: Jun 17, 2013 10:16am

OP-ED | Comparison Is Not Fair

by Jonathan Pelto
Posted: Jun 17, 2013 5:30am

Jonathan Pelto disagrees with Terry Cowgill's editorial comparing his blog to one by ConnCAN.

ANALYSIS | Do Special Elections Predict General Elections?

by Susan Bigelow
Posted: Jun 15, 2013 11:05am

Republican Sam Belsito cruised to victory in Tuesday’s special election to fill the seat of Rep. Bryan Hurl- burt, D-Tolland, who had resigned to take a job with the USDA. Repub- lican state chairman Jerry Labriola was thrilled, crowing that there is “no doubt that tonight’s commanding GOP victory is referendum on Dan Malloy’s mishandling of the Connecticut econo- my,” in an email message to supporters, adding that the election was “a har- binger of things to come.”

OP-ED | A Window Into The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Dystopia

by Sarah Darer Littman
Posted: Jun 15, 2013 11:03am

A database engineer friend helped me realize this phrase self-fulfilling prophecy described the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in education reform during a discussion of the information I’d received under a Freedom of Information Act request regarding the foundation’s $5 million grant to the city of Hartford last December.

Malloy Says He Hopes Perry Can Remember His Talking Points

by Hugh McQuaid
Posted: Jun 14, 2013 2:30pm

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy brought out the sharp elbows Friday ahead of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s visit next week to lure jobs away from Connecticut. “I hope he remembers all three points that he wants to make,” Malloy said.

‘Wired City’ Meets Elm City

by Thomas MacMillan
Posted: Jun 14, 2013 12:42pm

OP-ED | Dueling Blogs: Don’t Leave Education To The Experts

by Terry D. Cowgill
Posted: Jun 14, 2013 5:30am

Amid the wreckage and detritus of the imploding legacy media, a silver lining can be found in the multiplicity of views now available on complicated subjects. The profusion of blogs on topics ranging from food to guns is but one example.

Jepsen Will Appeal Labor Decision To Supreme Court

by Christine Stuart
Posted: Jun 13, 2013 5:55pm

High Court Strikes Down Patent On Breast & Ovarian Cancer Gene

by Barbara Puffer
Posted: Jun 13, 2013 2:07pm

Cannabis Capitalists Check Out The Valley

by Valley Independent Sentinel Staff
Posted: Jun 13, 2013 7:47am

Downtown Ansonia below City Hall. Der- by’s redev- elopment zone on Main Street along the Housatonic River. Tri-Town Plaza in Seymour. Could mari- juana be the key to sparking an economic revival in these under-developed properties?

Latino Leaders Back Harp for New Haven Mayor

by Melissa Bailey
Posted: Jun 12, 2013 8:07pm

Report Warns of Separate But Unequal Community Colleges

by CTByTheNumbers
Posted: Jun 12, 2013 12:00pm

Community colleges “are in great danger of becoming indelibly separate and unequal institutions in the higher-education landscape,” a Century Foundation task force warns in a new report.

Grim Numbers Result From Failure to Expand Medicaid In Other States

by Paul Gionfriddo
Posted: Jun 12, 2013 10:14am

In the aftermath of the decisions by state governors and legisla- tors not to expand Medicaid, the grim numbers are begin- ning to roll in. Failure to expand Medicaid will cost states more than 19,000 lives and over a billion dollars per year. Connect- icut was the first state to take advantage of Medi- caid expansion under the ACA in 2010.

In New Haven, A Teachers Union Embraces Change

by Melissa Bailey
Posted: Jun 12, 2013 9:49am

Melissa Bailey of the New Haven Independent writes a piece for Time magazine.

Hacker Workshop Re-Launched

by Thomas MacMillan
Posted: Jun 11, 2013 4:11pm

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June 19, 2013

Judge Accepts 30-Day Suspension For Failing To Rule On Cases

by Christine Stuart | Jun 19, 2013 5:24pm
Posted to: Courts | Legal

Christine Stuart photo Before accepting a 30-day unpaid suspension from the bench Wednesday Superior Court Judge E. Curtissa Cofield called a minister, a former drug addict, a lawyer, and a former state representative to testify on her behalf.

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Don’t Count Cafero Out Yet

by Hugh McQuaid | Jun 19, 2013 1:49pm
Posted to: Election 2014

Hugh McQuaid Photo House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero said Wednesday he will announce by the end of this month whether he will run for governor next year.

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Poll: Foley Beats Malloy By 3 Points

by Christine Stuart | Jun 19, 2013 7:09am
Posted to: Election 2014 | Poll

CTNJ file photo (Updated 12:21 p.m.) The 2014 gubernatorial election is 17 months away, but if it were held today Republican Tom Foley would beat Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy 43 to 40 percent, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

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June 18, 2013

Esty, Malloy Claim Victory Over Energy Policy Issues

by Christine Stuart | Jun 18, 2013 9:21pm
Posted to: Energy | Environment | State Capitol

Christine Stuart photo Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Daniel C. Esty didn’t get everything they wanted, but they claimed victory Tuesday over some major energy policies approved by the legislature this year.

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Connecticut Prepares For Future Weather Events

by Hugh McQuaid | Jun 18, 2013 3:58pm
Posted to: Weather

Hugh McQuaid Photo With hurricane season under way, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Tuesday that the state will conduct a two-day storm preparedness drill this week directed at improving communication between utility companies and government.

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State Will Regulate Bamboo

by Kathleen O'Brien | Jun 18, 2013 12:00pm
Posted to: Environment | State Capitol

Courtesy of Facebook Relief has come to Connecticut residents living behind the bamboo curtain.

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Homeownership Still The Goal of Many; State Looks To Help

by Christine Stuart | Jun 18, 2013 7:42am
Posted to: Housing | Jobs

Christine Stuart photo A survey of 600 renters found that nearly two-thirds of renters or 63.8 percent say they are very or somewhat interested in homeownership. But 79.8 percent suggested it would be very difficult or somewhat difficult to build the funds necessary for a down payment.

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June 17, 2013

Malloy Shows Perry Some ‘Yankee Hospitality’

by Hugh McQuaid | Jun 17, 2013 2:14pm
Posted to: Jobs | Taxes

Hugh McQuaid Photo Gov. Dannel P. Malloy dropped in Monday on Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s relocation pitch to Connecticut gun manufacturers in an effort to show the Lone Star State’s governor some “Yankee hospitality,” he said.

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Interest Rate On Federal Student Loan Program Scheduled To Double

by Jacqueline Wattles | Jun 17, 2013 12:15pm
Posted to: Congress | Economics | Education | Mansfield-Storrs

Christine Stuart photo The clock is ticking. Congress has 13 days left before the interest rates double on some federal student loans.

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ANALYSIS | What Does the NSA Surveillance Mean For You?

Yale constitutional law scholar Anjali Dalal suggests that when it comes to grilling the National Security Agency on domestic surveillance programs, it’s all about how one asks the question.