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DeStefano: 'You Leave When They Want You To Stay'
The Hartford CourantMayor John DeStefano, an outspoken political survivor and the longest-serving leader in the city's history, smiled Tuesday as he reflected on his 10 terms leading the Elm City and seemed at peace with his decision against trying to make it to 11. "You...Tags: Yale University, Local Government, Waterbury, Government, Democratic Party
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DeStefano Takes A Bow Fearing Voters' Push
The Hartford CourantLet me put this in perspective for you. Two days after John DeStefano was first sworn in as mayor of New Haven, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was whacked in the knee with a police baton in an assault planned by rival figure skater Tonya Harding's ex-...Tags: Eric Dickerson, Politics, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Government, Public Officials
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Imaginative Mayor Made New Haven Better
New Haven was struggling in the early 1990s. Schools were decrepit. Downtown was moribund, with litter wafting past empty storefronts. It looked like another once-bustling urban core that was dying of disinvestment, suburbanization, racism, lack of...Tags: Interior Policy, Academic Progress, Politics, Business, Gun Control
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Hartford a la vanguardia en la iniciativa contra las armas
Más de un año atrás, oficiales de la policía de Hartford, los suburbios y agencias estatales y federales comenzaron tranquilamente a recopilar información acerca de los criminales más violentos de la ciudad. La Fuerza de Tarea de Tiros de Hartford...Tags: Pedro E. Segarra, Dannel P. Malloy , New London (New London, Connecticut), Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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How About Connecticut Drivers' Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants?
The next round of debate over how to deal with the tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants in our communities is about to kick off Sunday with calls for allowing those folks to get Connecticut drivers' licenses. A rally to launch the campaign is...
Tags: Migration, Car Safety Tips and Advice, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Politics, Illegal Immigrants
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Long Hours And Sharp Elbows
Hartford Courant / Fox CTFor much of his life, Dannel Malloy has been an avid fan of hockey and rugby. Both rough-and-tumble sports are highly physical and require quick movements, sharp elbows and fast decisions. A rugby player for 22 years, Malloy finally quit when his...Tags: Credit Ratings, Labor Legislation, Lifestyle and Leisure, Budgets and Budgeting, Government
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Yale University Art Gallery's World-Class Collection Gets an Expanded and Renovated Home
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel St., New Haven, (203) 432-0600, artgallery.yale.edu Hey, all you big-shot art repositories around the USA, are you hearing some footsteps these days? Is something gaining on you? It might just be those...
Tags: Yale University, Painting, Hobbies, Lifestyle and Leisure, Colleges and Universities
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Name That Storm!
There’s something very wrong about nicknaming a hurricane “Frankenstorm,” then having it cancel Halloween. In a bittersweet message for New Haven children on Tuesday, Mayor John DeStefano Jr. declared the Wednesday the 31st would be a...
Tags: Hurricanes, Natural Disasters, Holidays, Groundhog Day, Halloween
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Connecticut's Airport Dreams Are Stuck in a Holding Pattern
Connecticut's biggest airports seem to be stuck in a strange and frustrating limbo. Lots of local and state folks see them as potentially high-flying engines of economic prosperity, but they never quite achieve lift-off. Bradley International Airport...
Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, University of Hartford, Local Government, John Harkins, American Airlines, Inc.
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If I Was A Rich Man
Summertime, and the living is easy. You would think that I'd be happy. Here I sit in my leafy suburb, making big bucks writing the occasional column for The Courant -- and basking in all the afterglow of having my photo in the Oldest Newspaper of...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Politics, Colleges and Universities, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Executive Branch
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Malloy Making Good Start On Cities
Urbanites hoped that because he had been mayor of what is arguably the state's most successful large city, Gov. Dannel Malloy would bring some of the Stamford mojo to the Capitol — be a friend and champion of the state's large and mid-sized cities....Tags: East Hartford, University of Connecticut Health Center, Politics, Waterbury, New Britain
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Get ready for another battle over stop-light camera legislation 'cause those New Haven dudes ain't giving up
They tried in 2007 and failed. Tried again in 2009, and 2010 and 2011, and failed every time. But those determined dudes in New Haven aren’t giving up on their quest to win legislative approval for cameras at stop lights to catch law-breaking...Tags: New York City, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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