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GOP Chief Questions Propriety Of Esty's Conference Call With Investment Firm
The Hartford CourantState Republican Party Chairman Jerry Labriola asked state Attorney General George Jepsen Monday to investigate the propriety of an April 23 conference call where state energy Commissioner Dan Esty gave a briefing to clients of the investment firm UBS...Tags: Values, Ethics, Conservation, George C. Jepsen, Energy Saving
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Gov. Malloy To Announce Support For Minimum Wage Increase
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Friday will announce he supports raising the state minimum wage to $9 over the next two years. Sources who have been briefed on the proposal said Thursday evening the governor will endorse a plan to increase the current state level...
Tags: Career and Workplace, U.S. Congress, Politics, Rosa DeLauro, Dannel P. Malloy
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Gov. Malloy Announces Push To Increase Minimum Wage
The Hartford CourantGov. Dannel P. Malloy Friday announced he supports raising the state minimum wage to $9 over the next two years. Sources who have been briefed on the proposal had said Thursday evening the governor was going to endorse a plan to increase the current...Tags: Career and Workplace, U.S. Congress, Politics, Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut General Assembly
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Esty Returns $3,500 In Campaign Contributions To NU Employees, Lobbyists
The Hartford CourantU.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District, is returning $3,500 in campaign contributions from Northeast Utilities executives and lobbyists, a spokesman for her campaign committee said Thursday — after the National Republican Congressional Committee...Tags: Northeast Utilities, U.S. Congress, Politics, Renewable Energy, Nancy Pelosi
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An Angry Obama Lashes Out At Senate's Rejection Of Gun Measures
The Hartford CourantAngered by a resounding defeat Wednesday of proposed gun control legislation that grew out of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, President Barack Obama stood outside the White House with parents of murdered Newtown first-graders and vowed: "This...Tags: Joe Biden, National Rifle Association of America, U.S. Senate, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Barack Obama
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Newtown Bicyclists Arrive In D.C. To Press For Gun Control
The Hartford CourantWASHINGTON — Twenty-six cyclists arrived Tuesday at the Capitol after a four-day ride from Newtown, bringing a plea for tighter gun limits to a reluctant Congress. "Here's our message: Please put politics aside and get it done," said Monte Frank...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, U.S. Congress, Richard Blumenthal, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Gun Control
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Grand Jury's Probe Into House Leadership Office Drags On
The recent release of subpoenas served last fall was a reminder that the federal grand jury investigation into what is loosely called the Donovan scandal is still percolating under the surface. Indeed, it's taken a new and troubling turn in its search for...Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Primaries, Elections
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Dems to help vulnerable Joe Garcia and Patrick Murphy
While vowing to help them hang on to their seats, Democrats tacitly acknowledged on Tuesday that South Florida Congressmen Patrick Murphy and Joe Garcia are among the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress. They were listed along with 24 others in...Tags: John F Tierney, Mike McIntyre, Frontline Limited, Israel, Allen West
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Sequester's Looming Meat Ax Coming At Connecticut
Deficit-hawk Republicans say the $85 billion across-the-board budget cuts that begin Friday under the sequester banner, unless Congress regains its senses, won't make much of an impact on a $3.5 trillion budget. They're wrong. It could cost thousands,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Richard Blumenthal, Unemployment, National Government, Barack Obama
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Facebook asked to take down pages abusing Sandy Hook victims
Numerous Facebook "tribute" pages that emerged after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in December have turned into a convenient venting vehicle for those who contend the shooting never happened. So U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy...
Tags: Chris Murphy, Teachers, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning
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Teacher Shot At Sandy Hook Elementary To Attend State Of The Union
The Hartford CourantNatalie Hammond, the lead teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School who survived being shot on Dec. 14, will listen to the President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday from the gallery of the House of the Representatives. U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty,...Tags: Carolyn McCarthy, U.S. Congress, The Washington Post, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Rosa DeLauro
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Newtown, Other Gun Violence Victims To Have Strong Presence At State Of The Union Speech
The Hartford Courantjlender@courant.com Much of the story at Tuesday night's State of the Union speech will be about Connecticut, from the Newtown massacre to Manchester, where bullets killed eight employees at Hartford Distributors in 2010, to Bridgeport, where a 3-year-...Tags: U.S. Congress, Union (Tolland, Connecticut), Rosa DeLauro, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Lois Frankel
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