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Jun 7, 2018 2:57 pm
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Malloy: The state must continue to invest in its infrastructure.
With the days of his administration winding down, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has been keeping up a steady schedule of public appearances.
He latest local appearance was Thursday, when he came to the New Haven-West Haven town lines to mark the opening of the West River Bridge on I‑95 and press for the continued modernization of the state’s infrastructure.
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Jun 4, 2018 12:00 pm
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Governor signs first “Second Chance Society” bill surrounded by local pols on DIxwell Avenue.
Mike Lawlor has three goals for criminal justice reform in Connecticut: Reduce crime. Reduce spending. And restore the public’s confidence in the system.
State measures to protect women’s and children’s health from federal Obamacare cuts and requiring insurance companies to cover prosthetic devices became law Friday with the signatures — and a warning — from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
State Rep. Pat Dillon recently wrote the following message to her constituents to explain why she deemed possibly “controversial” no votes on two environmental bills that passed in the recently concluded legislative session. (Click here and here to read news stories about those two bills, House Bill 5360 and Senate Bill 9.)
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May 9, 2018 2:50 pm
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Hartford—A last-minute effort to show support for a bill allowing paving another 1,000 feet of Tweed New Haven Airport’s runway wasn’t enough to cross the goal line this legislative session.
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May 8, 2018 8:37 am
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Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola, who spoke against the Tweed expansion resolution.
With just 48 hours left to get a bill that would expand Tweed-New Haven’s runway out of this year’s state legislative session, alders threw a Hail Mary, passing a resolution in support of the airport’s future growth.
Aaron Goode outside 200 Orange polls: Legislators eventually agreed to join national compact.
Aaron Goode traveled to the state Capitol five times and sent hundreds of emails to try to convince legislators to have Connecticut join a national movement to bypass the electoral college in choosing a president. Those years of lobbying by him and other New Haven pro-democracy activists have now borne results.
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May 7, 2018 8:05 am
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Bysiewicz meets potential voters at Manjares Sunday.
Susan Bysiewicz lost New Haven Mayor Toni Harp’s endorsement for her quest to become Connecticut’s next governor, but she demonstrated support Sunday in the heart of high-voting Westvile from people who pull the vote for progressive candidates.
Local supporters included, from left, Westville Ward Co-Chair Janis Underwood, Gabe DaSilva, Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr., Co-Chair Amy Marx, activist Hilary Grant.
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May 3, 2018 7:44 am
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The General Assembly’s legit electronic billboard shows the House vote on the billboard bill.
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The new Whalley billboard.
Spurred by public opposition to a blinding blinking billboard on New Haven’s Whalley Avenue, state legislators voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would allow cities and towns to regulate the illumination of public advertisements, so long as those signs have the technological ability to calibrate their own brightness.
Ward 1 Alder Catalbasoglu at Monday night’s meeting.
Advocates for the legalization and regulation of cannabis in Connecticut are pushing for the Board of Alders to move faster than the stereotypical stoner on a resolution in support of such efforts in the state.
“Who’s for tolls?” Candidates respond to moderator Vin Mauro’s question at Sunday’s debate.
Bysiewicz.
Susan Bysiewicz could have worded the pivotal question of a gubernatorial debate in New Haven Sunday this way: “What makes you think you should be the hero of progressive Democrats when you’re pouring your own millions into the race instead of running clean?”
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Apr 20, 2018 4:34 pm
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Fasano and Klarides at Friday press conference.
HARTFORD, CT — Democrats are proposing a budget that increasing spending $216.7 million over the amount adopted as part of the bipartisan budget, while Republicans are seeking to reduce it by $27.3 million.
William Tong unveils bump stock bill in February at New Haven Church on the Rock.
Like other Democrats running for Connecticut attorney general, William Tong promises to use the position to fight back against Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans. If elected, he may very well find himself serving alongside a pro-Trump Republican governor. What to do then?
Well, he said, there’s always Section 3 – 125 of the state’s general statutes.
(Opinion) In August of 1939, just a week before launching an all-out invasion of Poland, Adolf Hitler reiterated his orders to Nazi military commanders to “send to the death mercilessly and without compassion men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language.” It would be the start of the most brutal slaughter of innocent civilians the world had ever seen.
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Apr 19, 2018 8:05 am
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Porter, Fletcher (at left) and Dyson on Wednesday’s Capitol panel on racial profiling.
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It happened to State Rep. Robyn Porter in New Haven when she first became a legislator. An officer subtly accused her of having stolen her legislative license plates.
