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Wyman confirms deficit for new budget

2010-09-02T09:03:25Z

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Keith M. Phaneuf September 1, 2010 State Comptroller Nancy Wyman certified a $60 million-plus deficit this afternoon for the new fiscal year, even as she closed the books last year with a final surplus of nearly $450 million. Read more

Deficit puts sales tax back in the spotlight

2010-09-02T09:03:22Z

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Keith M. Phaneuf September 2, 2010 The state income tax has dominated legislative revenue debates since its controversial enactment nearly two decades ago. But the sales tax, whose base rate of 6 percent hasn't changed since that watershed debate in 1991, may be back in the

McMahon embraced by Tea Party

2010-09-02T07:58:11Z

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SOUTHINGTON -- The Tea Party may have preferred the full-throated, anti-government zeal of Peter Schiff, but its adherents demonstrated Tuesday night they will accept Linda McMahon's milder brand of conservatism.</p> <p>McMahon headlined a fundraiser for Tea Party organizer and Republican

GBYO adds wind ensemble to lineup; Monroe educator tapped to direct - Ct Post

2010-09-02T00:00:00Z

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... Rock Ensemble, Jazz Combo and Wind Ensemble, and has created a music technology program that allows students to compose and produce music via computers. ...

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Greenberg's Aquiline backs broker-dealer CRT Capital - Ct Post

2010-09-02T00:00:00Z

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Greenberg's Aquiline backs broker-dealer CRT Capital
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... Group Inc. Aquiline focuses on property and casualty insurance, banking, securities, asset management, life insurance and financial technology. ...

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Bend street an enclave of green-minded residents - Ct Post

2010-08-31T23:49:16Z

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Bend street an enclave of green-minded residents
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"In a society that really gets excited by new technology, it's fascinating to watch what they're trying to do there," he said. "But it's also in a community ...

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Fairfield American at LLWS - Ct Post

2010-08-31T23:49:14Z

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Fairfield American at LLWS
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... of the Fairfield American Little League attend a picnic at Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, Penn., on Thursday, August 19, 2010. ...

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Developer sells Topex division - Ct Post

2010-08-31T23:49:09Z

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Developer sells Topex division
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NEW FAIRFIELD -- Anthony Pellegrino is looking to invent new X-ray machines now that he's sold the skin cancer operations business of his X-ray technology ...

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Business People: Sacred Heart names Vamvakides to post - Ct Post

2010-08-31T23:49:04Z

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Business People: Sacred Heart names Vamvakides to post
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Razzetti has extensive experience in digital technology and marketing to the US Hispanic and Latin American markets. He previously was president of ...

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Rising prison population dampens hopes of budget relief

2010-08-31T23:45:33Z

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Connecticut's prison population is heading for its fourth consecutive monthly increase, a trend likely to put a damper hopes that a prison closure could help balance the state's budget. The population approached 18,600 Tuesday, largely because of a jump in the number of unsentenced inmates.

Despite grim forecasts, Larson stays upbeat

2010-08-31T08:35:20Z

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WASHINGTON -- The polls are grim, the economic news is bad, and voters are irked. But Rep. John Larson is casting himself as a counter to the "bed-wetters" who say all is lost for Democrats this November. Deirdre Shesgreen

A weak economy trumps the culture wars

2010-08-31T08:35:17Z

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The muted reaction to a former Republican national chairman coming out of the closet is a reminder that the culture wars can't compete with a stagnant economy.</p> <p>"At this point in the election cycle, people have a lot more important things to worry about than Ken Mehlman's

Williamsport: A little slice of Americana - Ct Post

2010-08-29T09:56:03Z

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Williamsport: A little slice of Americana
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... of the Mid-Atlantic team from New Jersey during a picnic at Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, Penn., on Thursday, August 19, 2010. ...

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Opening bell just days away for some students - Ct Post

2010-08-29T09:56:00Z

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Opening bell just days away for some students
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A classroom in each of the high schools is being outfit with new technology that will allow students enrolled in calculus BC, an advanced mathematics course ...

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Ramos optimistic as school year begins - Ct Post

2010-08-29T09:55:57Z

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Ramos optimistic as school year begins
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New technology gadgets, including hand-held white boards and electronic report cards, to help improve test scores. A new school bus company, We Transport, ...

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Space-age call for aid - Ct Post

2010-08-29T09:55:55Z

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Space-age call for aid
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NASA's Space Alliance Technology Outreach Program responded with a $2000 grant to the University of Central Florida's College of Optics & Photonics so that ...

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Antiques & Collectibles: Favored foods changed as technology changed - Ct Post

2010-08-29T09:55:52Z

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Antiques & Collectibles: Favored foods changed as technology changed
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... majolica auction in Wolcottville, Ind. Photo: Contributed Photo / The News-Times Contributed The foods we favor have changed as technology has changed. ...

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Programs helps people fend off foreclosure - Ct Post

2010-08-29T09:55:47Z

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Programs helps people fend off foreclosure
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When Downes, an information technology specialist, bought his single-family home in 2001 he was making $75000 a year and had been employed at the same ...

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A Democrat borrows from Shays' old playbook

2010-08-28T09:12:21Z

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WASHINGTON -- Chris Shays is not on the ballot in Connecticut's 4th Congressional District this year, but a Democrat in the race is channeling the former Republican congressman's persona. Deirdre Shesgreen

Politicians rush to defense of sub base

2010-08-28T09:12:19Z

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Jacqueline Rabe August 26, 2010 GROTON -- The Pentagon has yet to begin another review of potential base closures, but politicians already are making an election-year rush to defend the Groton sub base from even the first hints of a threat. Five years after the sub base was saved

Stem cells, law and politics at Yale

2010-08-28T09:12:15Z

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Mark Pazniokas August 26, 2010 NEW HAVEN -- Science and politics met awkwardly Thursday afternoon at a Yale forum on stem cell research promoted by Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's campaign for U.S. Senate. Read more

Dan Malloy impatiently counts the days until Labor Day

2010-08-26T07:44:07Z

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Mark Pazniokas August 23, 2010 Even on a relaxed summer day, Dan Malloy is a candidate who occupies the narrow spaces between confident and cocky, energetic and edgy. It is a more than a week after he crushed Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary for governor, and Malloy is

Unaffiliated women a potential swing vote for McMahon, Blumenthal in Senate race

2010-08-26T07:44:04Z

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Deirdre Shesgreen August 24, 2010 The campaigns of Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Richard Blumenthal are making overt and subtle appeals to unaffiliated women, a pool of 400,000 potential swing voters in their U.S. Senate race. As McMahon tries to become the first woman

How to campaign on $117,000 a day

2010-08-26T07:43:59Z

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WASHINGTON -- Republican Linda McMahon's campaign spent nearly $2.5 million in the first 21 days of July, a daily average of $117,619.<p/P> <p>And in the weeks before gliding to a primary win on Aug. 10, McMahon pumped another $5 million of her own money into the Senate

Rep. Green sues to overturn two-vote loss in recount

2010-08-26T07:43:54Z

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Mark Pazniokas August 24, 2010 Rep. Kenneth P. Green, D-Hartford, filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging his two-vote, recount loss in the Democratic primary to Matt Ritter. Under the law, the case will go to trial within days. Hartford Superior Court Judge Susan Peck scheduled a

Malloy gets his $6 million, while Foley to resume TV ads

2010-08-26T07:43:36Z

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Mark Pazniokas August 25, 2010 Democrat Dan Malloy had the biggest fundraising day in Connecticut history Tuesday as he collected $6 million in public financing for his campaign for governor. But it is Republican Tom Foley who is poised to ramp up spending with a resumption of

Republicans, Independents back ballot initiatives

2010-08-26T07:43:32Z

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Jacqueline Rabe August 25, 2010 An unlikely coalition of Independent, Green and Republican party candidates are trying to revive a proposal rejected by voters two years ago: Amend the state constitution to allow ballot initiatives. Read more

Himes tries to use Shays' old playbook

2010-08-26T07:43:23Z

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Deirdre Shesgreen August 25, 2010 WASHINGTON -- Chris Shays is not on the ballot in Connecticut's 4th Congressional District this year, but one of the candidates in the race is channeling the former Republican congressman's persona. It's the Democrat who ousted Shays two years

Retirement panel splits over pension cuts

2010-08-22T09:29:31Z

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Keith M. Phaneuf July 23, 2010 The panel created by Gov. M. Jodi Rell to propose solutions to the huge funding gaps facing state retirement benefit programs fractured Thursday over the question of whether to recommend reductions to the current benefit system. Veteran state union

Lawmakers prodded on promise to find $50M in savings

2010-08-22T09:29:29Z

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Keith M. Phaneuf July 26, 2010 Nearly one month into the new fiscal year, the legislative panel charged with identifying $50 million in cost-saving ideas still hasn't completed its work, Gov. M. Jodi Rell's administration wrote in a rebuke to the group's leaders. The head of the

State borrowed from capital program to keep budget afloat

2010-08-22T09:29:27Z

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Nearly $600 million borrowed from future capital projects to help state government pay its bills has thrown a wrench into Gov. M. Jodi Rell's efforts to bond another $260 million for the planned New Haven-to-Springfield commuter rail line.</p> <p>Legislative leaders are asking why the $580

Federal aid rules could be good for towns, bad for state budget

2010-08-22T09:29:25Z

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Byline 2: By Keith M. Phaneuf and Robert A. Frahm August 14, 2010 Connecticut's school districts could be in line for a major economic boost this fiscal year, thanks to the new extension of federal stimulus funding - and a

Dean to AFL-CIO: Lieberman 'sold you out' on health care

2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

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Mark Pazniokas August 16, 2010 Howard Dean, the former Democratic national chairman, blamed Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman today for the failure of the U.S. Senate to open Medicare to younger Americans as part of the health-care reform act passed by Congress. "Remember who sold you

Malloy to labor: 'I need you'

2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

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Mark Pazniokas August 16, 2010 Dan Malloy asked the Connecticut AFL-CIO today for an endorsement that would consolidate his labor support after winning the Democratic primary for governor. "We need to come together. And the coming together starts in this hall on this day, and

Malloy leads Foley by 15 point in first post-primary poll

2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

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Nicolas Kemper August 16, 2010 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy is up by 15 percentage points against his Republican opponent Tom Foley in a poll released Monday by Rasmussen Reports. Read more

Tom Foley visits the house of labor

2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

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Mark Pazniokas August 16, 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley reached out today to the Connecticut AFL-CIO with a speech emphasizing a shared interest in ending the state's two decades of job losses. "I understand the valuable role unions play in our economy,"

Should unopposed candidates get public funds?

2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

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Jacqueline Rabe August 19, 2010 Should the state's public campaign finance program bankroll uncontested races? The answer to that question depends on whom you ask. Read more

Blumenthal as outsider: Running away from Obama, congressional Democrats

2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

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Richard Blumenthal distanced himself Monday from the Obama administration and the state's Democratic congressional delegation with a forceful denunciation of Washington in a speech to the Connecticut AFL-CIO.</p> <p>The Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate was cheered as he arrived, but his

GOP's Foley walks into Democratic stronghold

2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

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Mark Pazniokas August 17, 2010 Democrat Dan Malloy visited the Connecticut AFL-CIO on Monday to seal the deal on the labor federation's endorsement today of his candidacy for governor. Republican Tom Foley came with no expectations. After sitting out the Democratic primary for

McMahon's WWE connection draws fans and hard questions

2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

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SHELTON - A motorcycle loudly idled at a stop light Tuesday as Linda McMahon, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, stood by her waiting SUV and answered questions from two reporters about a dead wrestler.</p> <p>McMahon, a co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment, was trying to steer the

Minor party candidates ask for attention

2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

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Jacqueline Rabe August 18, 2010 Minor party candidates stood on the State Capitol steps today before a small crowd to launch their campaigns and to ask they be invited this election cycle to debates with major party candidates. "We are very much shut out of the debates and

McMahon steps up attack in the battle over Blumenthal's image

2010-08-20T00:00:00Z

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With a new mailer and TV ad, Republican <a href="/node/6014/candidate">Linda McMahon</a> has launched a double-barreled attack on the political image Democrat <a href="/node/6323/candidate">Richard Blumenthal</a> has cultivated as a crusading attorney general over

Pre-school sales tax break: A holiday from fiscal reality?

2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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Byline 2: By Jacqueline Rabe and Keith M. Phaneuf August 13, 2010 Are state lawmakers feeling buyer's remorse for the $4 million the state will "spend" on the back-to-school sales tax holiday beginning Sunday? With a $3.4

Campaign finance: Millionaire candidates take different tacks

2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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Mark Pazniokas August 7, 2010 When it comes to investing in their own campaigns, the two Greenwich millionaires running for governor have much different approaches. Democrat Ned Lamont has given $8.6 million to his effort--money that's irretrievably committed to the cause.

Republican contenders sell themselves

2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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Byline 2: By Keith M. Phaneuf and Jacqueline Rabe August 8, 2010 BRISTOL--Tom Foley took the advice between bites of his cheese danish. "Negative campaigning is clearly working against the candidates," Whit Bett, a local

McMahon: It's all about turnout

2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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Deirdre Shesgreen August 9, 2010 SIMSBURY-The Republican women's "wine tasting social and tea cup auction" in this affluent town was not exactly the subdued affair one might expect, thanks to the volatile Republican Senate contest. Read more

As the air war continues, Malloy and Lamont pick up their ground game

2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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Mark Pazniokas August 9, 2010 WATERBURY--Dan Malloy caromed Sunday through an Italian festival in Waterbury, flattering the cooks, teasing the customers, offering his hand. Then moving on. Always moving, moving, moving. "You don't stop until it's over," Malloy said, striding

Poll: Gov races tighten, McMahon lead grows

2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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Ned Lamont's lead over Dan Malloy in the Democratic race for governor is just 3 percentage points, while Republican Tom Foley's lead over Michael Fedele is 8 points, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.</p> <p>In the race for the Republican Senate nomination, Linda

Despite gain in poll, McMahon still searches for votes

2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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Deirdre Shesgreen Byline 2: and Nicolas Kemper August 10, 2010 BRISTOL-Linda McMahon has been scouring the state for undecided Republican voters, and she found a live one at the Panera Bread cafe here Monday

GOP candidates face the heat, hit the airwaves

2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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While GOP gubernatorial front-runner <a href="/node/6047/candidate" target="_self">Tom Foley</a> spent much of the final day before today's primary indoors, reaching out to voters on the airwaves and by telephone, his chief rival <a href="/node/6322/candidate"