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.

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U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy said they may have lost the first vote on expanding background checks to all gun purchases, but they’re going to win the last vote.

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Connecticut’s recently-enacted gun restrictions are unlikely to cause the state to shed a significant number of jobs or harm the state’s economy, according to the the University of Connecticut’s quarterly economic analysis.

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In a quest for extra money, state legislators are exploring the idea of bringing slot machines to New Haven’s sleepy off-track betting arena.

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Tags: betting, gambling, sports haven, race track, OTB, Roland Lemar, James Amann, tribes, horses

The U.S. Senate’s failure to even open debate on strengthening gun background checks in April is a lingering disappointment for Erica Lafferty, daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung.

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The General Assembly approved a bill Wednesday morning that exempts crime scene photos of murder victims, including the 26 Newtown victims.

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The Black and Puerto Rican caucus is joining the Newtown families in their fight to keep the crime scene photos and 911 tapes of the second-worst school shooting in U.S. history from ever seeing the light of day.

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(Updated 7:04 p.m.) Acknowledging that no legislation is “perfect,” the General Assembly approved a bill Monday fixing problems in the sweeping gun control law adopted in April.

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More than a dozen surviving families of the slain Newtown victims came to the state Capitol to lobby lawmakers in favor of a bill they say will protect their loved ones in death the way they were unable to protect them in life.

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Tags: Newtown, Dean Pinto, Gilles Rousseau, Jennifer Hensel, Nicole Hockley, secrets, photos, Freedom of Information, dh

It is remarkable in this day and age that elected officials will on occasion pursue and enact policies in defiance of public opinion polls. Chalk it up either to courage or to a calculated political move designed to appease a very important constituency in the hope that the majority will forget it by the next election.

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Tags: immigration, DMV, drivers license, General Assembly 2013, Quinnipiac University poll, terry cowgill, dh