April 12, 2012
Parent Advocate Fired By New Haven Schools Following Rhee Rally
by Natalie Missakian | April 12, 2012 1:59pm
The founder of the Connecticut Parents Union says she was fired from her job with the New Haven Public Schools’ Head Start program just one day after staging a rally at the Capitol with lightning-rod school reformer Michelle Rhee.
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Tags: Michelle Rhee, Gwen Samuel, New Haven, Schools, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Natalie Missakian, dh
April 11, 2012
Death Penalty Repeal Headed to Governor’s Desk
by Hugh McQuaid | April 11, 2012 10:55pm
After years of unsuccessful efforts to pass similar legislation, the House of Representatives on Wednesday night sent a bill that prospectively abolishes the death penalty to a governor who is willing to sign it.
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Exonerated Prisoner Encourages House To Repeal Death Penalty
by Christine Stuart | April 11, 2012 5:30am
Kenneth Ireland — the wrongly accused man who served 21 years in prison before being exonerated for the brutal rape and murder of a woman — could have been charged with the death penalty back in 1988, but he wasn’t.
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Tags: death penalty, Kenneth Ireland, exonerated, death row, inmates, prison, Gary Holder-Winfield, Donald Williams, dh
April 5, 2012
Senate Passes Death Penalty Repeal With A Little Breathing Room
by Christine Stuart and Hugh McQuaid | April 5, 2012 2:05am
Clearing its biggest hurdle, a bill repealing the death penalty passed the state Senate on a 20-16 vote shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday, with two Democrats and all 14 Republican voting against it.
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April 4, 2012
Sen. Slossberg To Vote For Death Penalty Repeal
by Hugh McQuaid | April 4, 2012 7:12pm
Speculation around Wednesday’s Senate vote on the death penalty has largely centered on undecided Sens. Edith Prague, Carlo Leone, and Joseph Crisco. But a vote to repeal capital punishment will come from an unexpected source: Sen. Gayle Slossberg.
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April 3, 2012
Senate To Raise Death Penalty Repeal Wednesday
by Hugh McQuaid | April 3, 2012 3:27pm
The state Senate is poised to raise a bill to prospectively abolish the death penalty during Wednesday’s session with the support of previously undecided Sen. Edith Prague.
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Tags: senate, edith prague, death penalty, andrew roraback, john mckinney, john kissel, dh
April 2, 2012
Speeding To The Finish Line; Most Bills Pass Judiciary
by Hugh McQuaid | April 2, 2012 6:30pm
By the time the Judiciary Committee had finished meeting behind closed doors Monday, it had only four hours to work its way through a 64-bill agenda by its 5 p.m. deadline. By close of business, they’d gotten to 45 of them.
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Tags: judiciary committee, JF deadline, Attorney general qualifications, adoption, drug enforcement, risk reduction, hugh mcquaid, dh
March 30, 2012
One Man Champions Adoption Rights On Hartford Street Corner
by Hugh McQuaid | March 30, 2012 2:17pm
Paul Schibbelhute woke up at 4:30 Friday morning and drove from New Hampshire to a Hartford street corner, where he hoped to raise awareness of legislation that gives adoptees access to their original birth certificates.
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Tags: adoption, Judiciary Committee, Edward Meyer, John Kissel, birth certificate, Hugh McQuaid, dh
March 29, 2012
NAACP President, Malloy Meet On Death Penalty
by Hugh McQuaid | March 29, 2012 6:38pm
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy departed from his hands-off opposition to the death penalty Thursday, holding a press conference with NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous on his organization’s efforts to abolish it.
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Home Care Attendants Vote In Favor Of A Union
by Hugh McQuaid | March 29, 2012 3:24pm
SEIU District 1199 announced Thursday that home care attendants, one of two groups allowed to unionize under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s controversial executive orders, have voted by a wide margin to allow SEIU to represent them.
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