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HRP Associates Inc., a Farmington engineering and geology consulting firm, has promoted Jason A.

Peter Kaufman of Stamford has joined the Milford accounting firm of Cohen, Kaufman & Associates

The law firm of Wiggin & Dana has named two attorneys to its Executive Committee: New Haven

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Should the state's public campaign finance program bankroll uncontested races?

The answer to that question depends on whom you ask. Read more

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,"

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

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

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

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

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

Democratic leaders of the state House want to give publicly financed gubernatorial candidates $3 million more for their campaigns. Would Dan Malloy be better off if they fail?

Malloy, a Democrat and the only remaining publicly financed candidate

On the first day of the general-election campaign, Democrat Richard Blumenthal and Republican Linda McMahon set out to establish competing narratives in their

With the dust barely settled on the 2010 gubernatorial primaries, Democrat Dan Malloy and Republican Tom Foley did their best Wednesday to

A dispute over vote tallies from one of Connecticut's largest cities pushed the battle for the Republican gubernatorial nomination late into the night between Tom Foley and Michael Fedele.

But the third GOP gubernatorial contender, Oz Griebel, bowed out shortly after 10 p.m.,

Dan Malloy won the Democratic nomination for governor Tuesday, coming from behind to convincingly defeat the hero of the antiwar movement in 2006, Ned

Avon lawyer Martha Dean captured the Republican nomination for attorney general tonight, capturing 60 percent of the vote in her contest with Ross Garber of Glastonbury, according to unofficial results.

Garber, was chief legal counsel to former