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National magazine says control of Connecticut Senate is a ‘toss up’
HARTFORD, Conn. – While most political pundit’s eyes are focused on the hotly contested presidential election between frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the race for Senate and House seats in Connecticut is garnering its share of national attention.
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Opinion: Dems punt on budget, again
Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats. It’s been a pretty intense week all around, what with the primary and the looming end of the legislative session, so Democrats can almost be forgiven for turning in a budget that was late…
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Budget agreement? Still nothing as of Monday night
HARTFORD, Conn. – Hours before the General Assembly is scheduled to vote on a deficit mitigation package to erase this year’s red ink, the legislature’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis released new numbers pegging the shortfall at $247.8 million.
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Opinion: Newly raised bills for 2016 belie worries about the economy
Susan Bigelow is an award-winning columnist and the founder of CTLocalPolitics. She lives in Enfield with her wife and their cats. At the start of every legislative session, members submit a blizzard of new bills for consideration. Many of them are either merged into other bills or blessedly forgotten, but they’re all still worth looking…
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Opinion: Making Connecticut more business friendly isn’t hard
Eric Gjede is assistant counsel at the Connecticut Business & Industry Association. This column was signed by 68 business and professional organizations, including many of the state’s local and regional Chambers of Commerce, representing thousands of Connecticut companies and their employees. Connecticut begins 2016 having finally regained all of the private sector jobs lost in…
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Republican lawmaker calls for gubernatorial term limits
HARTFORD, Conn. – Just as quickly as Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told reporters he hadn’t ruled out running for a third term, a Republican lawmaker said she would introduce legislation to limit gubernatorial terms to two. Rep. Christie Carpino, R-Cromwell, said she planned to introduce a constitutional amendment to limit the term of governor…
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Malloy seeks to deny individuals on federal ‘watch lists’ from getting a gun permit
HARTFORD, Conn. – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wants the federal government to give him access to its “watch lists” so he can deny gun permits to individuals who are on those lists.
