by Christine Stuart | Oct 24, 2018 11:00am
Posted to: Election 2018 | Colchester | East Haddam | East Hampton | Essex | Lyme | Old Saybrook
HARTFORD, CT — On paper it looks like state Rep. Melissa Ziobron, who is in a pitched battle for a state Senate seat, was the highest paid state legislator in 2017.
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by Christine Stuart | Aug 27, 2015 1:35pm
Posted to: Campaign Finance | Courts | Election Policy | Law Enforcement | State Capitol | East Hampton
(Updated 3:44 p.m.) Former House Republican Chief of Staff George Gallo was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison Thursday in federal court in Hartford for steering Republican candidates to a direct mail company in Florida in exchange for kickbacks.
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by Scott Minnick | Feb 26, 2015 6:26pm
Posted to: Education | Opinion | State Capitol | East Hampton | Glastonbury
Our society accepts the sad fact that in our free-market democracy, money influences politicians.
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by Staff Report | Oct 24, 2013 2:45pm
Posted to: Town News | East Hampton | Middletown
Former East Hampton state Rep. Gail Hamm, an attorney who served in the legislature for 14 years before her retirement, has died.
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by Brian Woodman Jr. | Oct 7, 2013 11:30am
Posted to: Election 2013 | Election Policy | Equality | Town News | East Hampton | Middletown | Westport | Local Politics
(Updated 4:46 p.m.) Secretary of the State Denise Merrill is lauding a judge’s order permitting a minor political party’s candidates to appear on the ballot in Westport and East Hampton’s municipal election despite their failure to comply with state election law.
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by Natalie Missakian | Feb 28, 2012 5:29am
Posted to: Education | Town News | Cheshire | East Hampton | Hartford | Marlborough | Meriden
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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