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AIG 'products' exec: Parting shots at Cuomo, others...
Spin CycleOnce you get past its aggrieved sense of white-collar martyrdom, the resignation letter published on the NYT Op Ed page from Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of AIG???s financial "products" unit, dishes out some interesting if self-serving...Tags: National Government, Career and Workplace, Government, American International Group, Connecticut
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Richard Blumenthal: Popular and ready
The Swampby Mark Silva At least one of the turnovers in Democratic ranks this year is unlikely to upset the party's balance of power: With Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut announcing that he will retire after five terms, a popular potential......Tags: Career and Workplace, Connecticut, Christopher Dodd, Republican Party, Quinnipiac University
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Blumenthal: I 'misspoke' on Vietnam
The SwampU.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal address the press about his Vietnam service record Tuesday. (EPA/Matthew Cavanaugh) by Kathleen Hennessey Democratic Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal says that he occasionally "misspoke" about the nature of...Tags: U.S. Senate, West Hartford, Democratic Party, Connecticut, The New York Times
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DNC: Tuesday primaries 'could not have gone better'
The Swampby Mike Memoli The snap conventional wisdom after Tuesday's primaries is that Democrats may have had their best night of the 2010 cycle to date. And now the DNC is doing little to tamp down that talk, saying primaries in......Tags: Elections, Minnesota, Environmental Pollution, Political Candidates, Labor Legislation
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Primary Watch: Bennet wins in Colorado
The Swampby Mike Memoli After a tough news day, the White House ends Tuesday on a high note as appointed Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet (D) has won the hotly-contested primary over former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff (D). President Obama, his administration......Tags: Elections, Mark Dayton, Andrew Romanoff, Regional Authority, Hillary Clinton
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Just a Bad, Sad Week
The Hartford CourantIt was not a good week: At the Boston Marathon, where bombs killed and maimed. In West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant exploded, taking lives and leveling the community. For the media, which seemed to get it first more than it got it right. And in...Tags: University of Connecticut Football, Sports Illustrated, Mark Sanford, Sports, Chris Murphy
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Stirred by a message from the heart
WASHINGTON -- In a city where David's righteousness almost never beats Goliath's might, what Nicole Hockley and the other Sandy Hook families did to the gun lobby last week was nigh unto miraculous. Gun-control legislation had appeared to be a lost...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Autism, Republican Party, Chris Murphy
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Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Spending Spree
The Hartford CourantSay what you will about Jesse Jackson Jr., but I'll tell you this. He's the guy you want waiting across the street in the car for your tag sale to begin. I mean, the man will buy anything. The former Illinois congressman pleaded guilty last week to using...Tags: Executive Branch, Middletown, U.S. Congress, Michael Jackson, Politics
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UConn, And Its Supporters, Must Make The Program Bigger
The Hartford CourantIf you ever have been on the Duke campus, you have appreciated the dramatic illustration of Gothic architecture known as the Crowell Quad Clock Tower. Well, forget it, Connecticut. You didn't get such an elegant introduction to Wednesday morning from the...Tags: University of Connecticut Football, Big Ten Conference, Sports, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Colorado Buffaloes
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The Difference? It All Comes Down To Football
The Hartford CourantThey had the television market, the province of 21st century greed, and they had the academics, the province of 19th century purity. Those in power at Connecticut's flagship university were hopeful that they would help carry the day for admission into the...Tags: University of Connecticut Football, Big Ten Conference, South Florida Bulls, Sports, Dannel P. Malloy
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Time For Murphy To Get Off The Canvas
The Hartford CourantRemember the scene in "Witness" where the local bullies start taunting the Amish in their carts? One of them paints the face of Alexander Godunov with his ice cream cone. They're knocking off straw hats. And Harrison Ford clambers down out of the jitney...Tags: Elections, Alexander Godunov, Politics, Republican Party, Chris Murphy
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Flexing Financial Muscle, McMahon Pummels Murphy
The Hartford CourantDespite what you've heard on TV, the U.S. Senate race between Chris Murphy and Linda McMahon is not about creating jobs. It's about a methodical, astronomically expensive, dismantling of Murphy. Thus far, the polls suggest McMahon is succeeding. And...Tags: Middletown, Elections, Executive Branch, John Rowland, Politics
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