April 8, 2013
‘Do Something Before Our Tragedy Becomes Your Tragedy’
by Hugh McQuaid & Christine Stuart | April 8, 2013 7:22pm
As she introduced President Barack Obama on Monday at the University of Hartford, Nicole Hockley shared a glimpse of the grief she’s experienced since her son, Dylan, was among those killed Dec. 14 in Newtown.
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Tags: Barack Obama, gun control, Nicole Hockley, University of Hartford, dh
March 14, 2013
Colt Workers Make Their Voices Heard
by Hugh McQuaid | March 14, 2013 12:41pm
Colt Manufacturing emptied its West Hartford plant for a brief show of force at the state Capitol Thursday morning. Ten busloads of the plant’s employees flooded the Legislative Office Building, appealing to lawmakers to save their jobs.
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Tags: Colt Manufacturing, gun control, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Legislative Office Building, rally
March 7, 2013
Lawmakers Do Their Own Gun Research
by Christine Stuart | March 7, 2013 1:44pm
A few weeks ago, House Majority Leader Joseph Aresimowicz, rounded up a handful of his deputy majority leaders and headed to Colt Manufacturing in West Hartford for a tour and demonstration of various firearms.
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Tags: gun manufacturers, Colt, Joe Aresimowicz, Dennis Veilleux, assault weapon
January 30, 2013
Lawmakers Experience Social Media Growing Pains
by Christine Stuart | January 30, 2013 5:55pm
A day after one of their colleagues was criticized for using social media to communicate with her constituents on Facebook during a 17-hour hearing on gun control, a group of lawmakers and staffers gathered at the Legislative Office Building to learn about how to better communicate with their constituents on social media.
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Tags: Beth Bye, Facebook, Bob Duff, Julie Germany, Katie Harbath, Twitter, guns, dh
December 24, 2012
Gun Rights Challenged By Many, Defended By Few
by Christine Stuart | December 24, 2012 6:29am
Not all of the more than 100 residents who attended U.S. Rep. John B. Larson’s forum Sunday on violence prevention agreed with his desire to reinstate a nationwide ban on assault weapons and high capacity magazines. But most of them did.
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Tags: Newtown, gun violence, gun control, assault rifle, assault weapon, high-capacity magazine, Larson, NRA, connecticut carry, dh
December 12, 2012
UConn-West Hartford Students Offer Mixed Feelings About Move To Downtown
by Tikeyah Whittle | December 12, 2012 6:30am
The administration may believe it’s a good idea to move the University of Connecticut’s West Hartford campus to downtown Hartford, but students offered mixed feelings about the decision.
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Tags: University of Connecticut, hartford, west hartford, Susan Herbst, Michael Menard, Tikeyah Whittle, dh
November 6, 2012
They Say They Hated The Ads, But The Message Apparently Resonated
by Hugh McQuaid | November 6, 2012 6:32pm
A sample of midday voters in Farmington universally hated this year’s onslaught of negative political ads, but that doesn’t mean the ads didn’t resonate. In fact, in many cases voters who said they didn’t like the ads then offered voting rationales that seemed to come straight from transcripts of the TV commercials.
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Tags: Linda McMahon, Chris Murphy, TV ads, Democrats, Republicans, Farmington, West Hartford, dh
Long Lines In West Hartford Dwindle Mid-Day
by Christine Stuart | November 6, 2012 3:29pm
The voting line at Conard High School in West Hartford had dwindled around 1 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, but earlier in the day voters complained of having to wait for more than 90 minutes to cast their votes.
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Tags: connecticut, West Hartford, Voters, long lines, registrars, sots, Secretary of the State, Av Harris, SEIU, purple t-shirts, McMahon, dh
September 17, 2012
OP-ED | Overcoming Deficit Thinking
by Enrique Sepúlveda | September 17, 2012 10:56pm
One key point about the discourse on education reform that is mentioned repeatedly yet gets very little scrutiny has to do with the way commentators and educators describe low-income urban and immigrant families (this includes NY Times writer Paul Tough, Hartford Courant artist Bob Englehart (week of Feb. 6, 2012), Courant columnist Rick Green (February 8, 2012), Colin McEnroe (Feb. 10, 2012), and even some Hartford school administrators.
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Tags: Enrique Sepúlveda, education, immigrants, Latinos, teachers, dh
August 13, 2012
Busway Construction Underway
by Hugh McQuaid | August 13, 2012 4:44pm
At a West Hartford construction site Monday Department of Transportation Commissioner James Redeker said contractors are working on extended hours and using creative techniques to ensure the New Britain-Hartford busway is completed on time and within its budget.
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