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January 23, 2013

Tobacco Shop Owner Pleads Guilty In Campaign Finance Scheme

by Christine Stuart | January 23, 2013 8:45pm

Doug Hardy file photo The co-owner of a Waterbury tobacco shop has pleaded guilty for his role in an alleged campaign finance scheme to influence former House Speaker Chris Donovan.

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January 8, 2013

Latinos Make Historic Gains In General Assembly

by Christine Stuart | January 8, 2013 2:22pm

Christine Stuart photo When the next session of the General Assembly opens tomorrow there will be more Hispanic state legislators than at any other moment in Connecticut’s history, Secretary of the State Denise Merrill said Tuesday.

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November 13, 2012

Suzio Continues Quest For Recount

by Hugh McQuaid | November 13, 2012 4:27pm

CTNJ File Photo Citing a “historically close” election which saw his defeat by 238 votes, Meriden Sen. Len Suzio wrote the secretary of the state Monday asking for a recount.

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November 9, 2012

Update: No Recount In 13th Senate District

by Hugh McQuaid | November 9, 2012 3:13pm

When amended vote returns were counted in Meriden and Cheshire Friday, the 13th senatorial district race was no longer close enough to force a recount, leaving Democrat Dante Bartolomeo the winner in a tight race over Meriden Republican Len Suzio.

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August 3, 2012

Senator Is Ok With Release Of White Collar Criminals

by Hugh McQuaid | August 3, 2012 3:51pm

Hugh McQuaid photo As Sen. Len Suzio was holding his second press conference in opposition to an inmate early release program, the Malloy administration was blasting him as a hypocrite for advocating the early release of a white collar criminal who’d served only 10 percent of his sentence.

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July 17, 2012

Republicans Say Risk Reduction Credits Are Too Risky

by Hugh McQuaid and Elizabeth Bowling | July 17, 2012 1:57pm

Hugh McQuaid file photo A recent Meriden murder has Republican lawmakers again sounding the alarm over a state policy giving prison inmates the opportunity for an early parole hearing. However, the Malloy administration maintains the law did not result in an early prison release for the man accused of the crime.

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June 3, 2012

Donovan Still In, Says He Regrets Hiring Former Staff Entangled by Federal Probe

by Christine Stuart | June 3, 2012 10:01pm

Christine Stuart photo MERIDEN — Standing outside his campaign headquarters Sunday as rain clouds threatened, it became immediately clear to reporters that there wasn’t much Chris Donovan was going to say about the federal investigation that led to the arrest of his campaign finance director.

What Donovan did say is that he plans to stay in the 5th Congressional District race.

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February 28, 2012

A View of Malloy’s Education Proposal From The Classroom

by Natalie Missakian | February 28, 2012 6:29am

Lise Gagne photo via Microsoft free clipart Amy Farrior, a first-grade teacher in Marlborough, was excited at first when she heard Gov. Dannel P. Malloy calling 2012 the year for education reform.  But then she heard the governor’s remarks on tenure, and how he suggests teachers can earn it. “Basically the only thing you have to do is show up,” he said.

Farrior says she was shocked.

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February 10, 2012

Teacher Tenure No Longer Taboo

by Christine Stuart | February 10, 2012 6:30am

Christine Stuart photo A day after unveiling his sweeping $128 million education reform proposal, including controversial changes to teacher tenure, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy toured Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Meriden.

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December 28, 2011

Meriden Lands U.S. Department of Education Grant

by Christine Stuart | December 28, 2011 6:30am

Christine Stuart photo Embracing the old proverb that it takes a village to raise a child the U.S. Department of Education awarded Meriden Children First a $460,000 planning grant to develop a community approach to educating neighborhood blocks of children.

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