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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

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

CROMWELL -- Republican Linda McMahon won a decisive victory on Tuesday in the three-way primary for U.S. Senate, ensuring she will face Democrat

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

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

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

BRISTOL--Tom Foley took the advice between bites of his cheese danish.

"Negative campaigning is clearly working against the candidates," Whit Bett, a local

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 Linda McMahon's first advertising attack on Democrat Richard Blumenthal in the U.S. Senate race is a mailer that casts his admitted misstatements about his Vietnam-era service as calculated lies.

The mass mailing began arriving Tuesday, as

Richard Blumenthal and Linda McMahon were no-shows, leaving Rob Simmons and Peter Schiff to debate each other and two minor-party candidates tonight.

Simmons arguably made news for uttering a simple, declarative sentence: "I am running for the U.S.

A Superior Court judge Tuesday rejected Michael Jarjura's effort to block Kevin Lembo from using public financing in their Democratic contest for state comptroller.

The terse order by Judge James T. Graham frees Lembo to begin spending the $375,000

Superior Court Judge James T. Graham said he will rule by 5 p.m. today on a request by Waterbury Mayor Michael Jarjura for an injunction blocking his opponent in the comptroller's race, Kevin Lembo, from spending $375,000 in public financing.

Jarjura said he will not appeal if

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

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

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy trails Ned Lamont by 9 percentage points among likely Democratic primary voters with less than four weeks until the Aug. 10 primary, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

Tom Foley's

WEST HARTFORD - Oz Griebel and Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele tag-teamed Tom Foley during a televised debate Wednesday night, quizzing the GOP front runner about past arrests and business struggles.

"I am not a perfect person, and anyone who wants a perfect

WASHINGTON-Republican Linda McMahon put another $7.5 million of her personal fortune into her U.S. Senate campaign over the last three months, helping to ensure the Connecticut contest will be among the most expensive in the nation.

McMahon's loans

A major state and municipal employees' union today announced its endorsement of Democrat Dan Malloy for governor, with a union spokesman calling his selection over Ned Lamont a "wrenching choice" for many leaders.

Malloy and Lamont each had been

The public financing of campaigns in Connecticut survived a dizzying day of court rulings Tuesday, but lawyers will begin conferring with a U.S. District Court judge this afternoon on the new rules of the road going forward to November.

The early

In a dizzying one-two punch of state and federal court decisions today, the public financing of campaigns in Connecticut was upheld, but key provisions that

With just $99,318 in his campaign account, Oz Griebel joined Tom Foley in a legal action Monday to block their rival in the GOP race for governor, Michael C. Fedele, from $2.18 million in public financing.

Lawyers for Griebel and Foley told Superior

Superior Court Judge Julia Aurigemma said this afternoon she will rule tomorrow by 5 p.m. on GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley's effort to block challenger Michael Fedele from receiving public funding for his campaign.

At the judge's request, Fedele's campaign agreed not to

Democrat George C. Jepsen announced this morning he has raised the preliminary funding necessary to qualify for a $750,000 grant from the state's Citizens Election Program to support his bid for attorney general.

The former state party chairman and

First, it was Susan Bysiewicz. Now, it's Michael C. Fedele. For the second time this year, the fate of a major candidate for statewide office is in the hands of a Hartford Superior Court judge.

Judge Julia L. Aurigemma will hear arguments at 2 p.m.

The biggest danger posed by the massive state budget deficit looming just 12 months away, according to Ned Lamont, is the uncertainty.

Fear over what's to come paralyzes businesses, municipal governments, and even households.

Facing the budget:

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley asked a Hartford Superior Court judge Friday to block his rival, Michael Fedele, from spending the $2.18 million in