Following a book signing at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford, Green Party darling Ralph Nader was asked if he would challenge U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd for his seat.
"Well, it's premature," Nader said. But in the same breath he also acknowledged the' [...] 
The Connecticut Green Party is hoping to woo Winsted native Ralph Nader into challenging U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd, today, with homemade signs.
The group is expected to gather at the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford Friday where Nader is scheduled to speak about his new book [...] 
(Updated 8:24 p.m.) Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell proposed cutting $337 million from the $18.64 billion 2010 budget passed by the legislature just three months ago.
Rell's deficit mitigation plan released Tuesday afternoon assumes that the planned sales tax reduction from 6 to' [...] 
As expected, state Sen. Sam Caligiuri officially switched campaigns Tuesday afternoon and decided to drop his bid for the U.S. Senate and instead run against U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy in Connecticut's 5th Congressional District.
"I have been deeply humbled by the outpouring of'" [...] 
Tom Foley, the former Ambassador to Ireland, Bush fundraiser, and Republican U.S. Senate candidate released a statement Tuesday saying he is considering entering the race for governor.
"We no longer have an incumbent Governor seeking re-election. I have had a number of conversations with" [...] 
In what he acknowledges to be an unusual move, Kevin Lembo, the state's Healthcare Advocate, filed papers today seeking the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor.
Lembo hasn't joined any of the six (possibly seven) Democratic candidates exploring a run for the governor's office' [...] 
Ned Lamont, who may seek the Democratic nomination to run for governor, was a man of few words Monday.
He joined state and local elected officials at the CSEA/SEIU Local 2001 headquarters in Hartford, but bailed before helping to bag up 223 turkey's along [...] 
With little more than 24 hours left before the U.S. Senate goes forward with a test vote on its health care bill, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd made a stop at a small manufacturing business in New Britain.
After touring Metalform Company Inc., which manufactures [...] 
The state inked a 35-year contract that will change the operation and look of its 23 service stations along Interstate 95, the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways, and I-395, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Thursday.
A Subway restaurant franchiser and a private equity firm have teamed [...] 
Kevin O'Connor, a former U.S. attorney and former associate U.S. attorney general, told Dennis House during the taping of "Face the State" on Thursday that he will not run for governor.
O'Connor had been mentioned as a possible Republican contender when Gov. M. Jodi Rell [...] 
There are no cameras, but this small wireless device helps the staff at Mulberry Gardens in Southington provide a higher level of care to its residents.
Perry Phillips, executive director of the senior assisted living facility, said 90 percent of the residents don't even know it's [...] 
After the briefing on the long-awaited Senate health care bill, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd talked Wednesday about how he wished U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy were there to be part of this historic moment.
"This bill meets the test of history, reflecting the" [...] 
Starting on Jan. 1 foreclosed properties will now be subject to state and municipal conveyance taxes, according to language approved in the state budget passed three months ago.
It's a policy change which will hit a vulnerable population and it has lawmakers on both [...] 
The Connecticut Green Party has reached out to Winsted native and Green Party darling Ralph Nader to ask him to run against U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd.
"We're going to ask him to do it," Steve Fournier, state co-chairman of the Green Party, said Tuesday night. Nader' [...] 
(Updated 6:33 p.m.) After talks with Republican party leaders, state Sen. Sam Caligiuri will have a choice to make: continue his campaign against U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd or take on U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy.
Caligiuri said that he will make his decision over [...] 
In his weekly conference call with Connecticut reporters, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd reacted to last week's poll numbers and talked about how the health care debate is shaping up in the Senate.
"Of course I'd like to see better numbers," Dodd said of' [...] 
Just a few weeks after state Comptroller Nancy Wyman predicted the state would end the year with a $624 million deficit, the legislature's Office of Fiscal Analysis and the Office of Policy and Management agreed Monday that the budget deficit at the end of [...] 
(Updated 9:24 p.m.) Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday that he will seek legislation that requires greater disclosure of medical mistakes at hospitals.
From wrong-sided surgeries to sponges left in patients after surgery, Blumenthal said the hospitals failure to disclose these adverse medical mistakes [...] 
The man who was chosen for the vice presidency over U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd will visit Hartford Dec. 11 to raise money for the embattled senator.
Just two months after President Barack Obama came to Stamford to help Dodd raise $1 million for [...] 
(Updated 4:05 p.m.) The good news is the recession is over, the bad news is that the labor market and jobs aren't going to rebound until the middle of next year, Gov. M. Jodi Rell's Council of Economic Advisors told a roomful of lawmakers Thursday.
"Yes,'" [...] 
It wasn't just one court, one legislature, or one governor that made marriage equality for same-sex couples possible.
It was a movement supporters said Thursday at a gathering to commemorate the one year anniversary of the day Connecticut began allowing same-sex marriage.
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With one Republican challenger beating him by 11 points, another by seven, and yet another by two, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd has to be wondering what more he can do to improve his poll numbers in Connecticut.
Since the last Quinnipiac University poll in [...] 
Standing outside the Community Child Guidance Clinic in Manchester state Rep. Ryan Barry, D-Manchester, offered his wholehearted support to former House Speaker James Amann's bid for governor in 2010.
"This is the kind of guy who grabs you by the lapels in the middle" [...] 
The inmate who has waged a hunger strike for more than two years watched his lawyers make their closing arguments Tuesday, but was not allowed to speak.
William B. Coleman, who says he's using a hunger strike to protest his 2002 spousal rape conviction and a "broken'" [...] 
(Updated 7:03 p.m.) "After much soul searching and discussion with my family, I have decided not to seek re-election next year," Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Monday at an impromptu 5 p.m. press conference in her Capitol office.
Rell fought back tears a [...] 
A Connecticut judge is scheduled to hear closing arguments Tuesday in the case of an inmate who has been on a hunger strike for more than two years.
Superior Court Judge James Graham was asked 11 months ago by the American [...] 
It's an issue that prevails in all economic climates and in all socioeconomic groups, but it's not an issue that resonates loudly enough in the hallways of the state Capitol.
At least not until now.
House Speaker Chris Donovan said Friday that he was [...] 
(Updated) A decline in the inmate population coupled with the need to find $63.4 million in savings over the next two years, has prompted Gov. M. Jodi Rell to ask the Department of Corrections to consider closing a prison.
According to the Department of Corrections, the [...] 
Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell used her executive authority Thursday to cut $34 million from the two-year $37.6 billion state budget. Some state agencies were dealt cuts as much as 5 percent, while others received cuts as little as $5.
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Since he announced Wednesday that he would be exploring a campaign for governor, opponents and political insiders have speculated about whether Ned Lamont, the wealthy Greenwich businessman, would participate in the state's public campaign finance system.
"I think the answer to that is simple,"' [...] 
It's unclear at the moment if Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's deficit mitigation plan will attempt to close a $388 million budget gap or the $624 million budget gap calculated last week by state Comptroller Nancy Wyman.
What is clear is that the [...] 
The two non-voters in the race for U.S. Senate got out to the polls Tuesday and cast their ballots for local officials in Weston and Greenwich.
According to the Registrar of Voters in each town, Linda McMahon and Peter Schiff, two of U.S. [...] 
On the same day Ned Lamont announced that he would join a handful of other Democratic candidates in exploring a run for governor in 2010, Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell remained mum on her re-election plans.
In a brief phone interview, Rell [...] 
With final official vote tallies still outstanding in several communities, preliminary results seem to show Republicans maintaining a stronghold in mostly Democratic towns like Middletown and New Britain and picking up seats in several communities like Stamford, Stratford, and Trumbull.
Democratic candidates held [...] 
Election officials were not expecting the same voter turnout the state saw during last year's presidential election, but in some places where there are contentious local contests turnout is pretty high.
In East Haven where Mayor April Capone Almon, a Democrat is fighting to win a [...] 
In a conference call with Connecticut reporters Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd said he hasn't spoken to U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman about his position on health care, which has garnered the junior senator a fair amount of media attention.
"No, I haven't talked" [...] 
Voters head to the polls today to elect their local officials in 162 cities and towns.
For the best information about your local elections there are a few cutting-edge online community news organizations to monitor throughout the day. If you live in Shelton, [...] 
(Updated 6:26 p.m.) Last month the governor's budget office projected a $388.5 million budget deficit, but projections released Monday by state Comptroller Nancy Wyman forecast a deficit almost twice that size.
In her monthly letter to Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, Wyman pegged' [...] 
The former head of corporate communications for CIGNA returned to the insurance capital Monday to add his voice to the national health care debate.
Wendell Potter, who left CIGNA in 2008, admitted he worked to kill health care reform efforts during the Clinton administration, [...] 
The Chairwoman of Connecticut's Democratic Party has filed a Federal Elections Commission complaint against Linda McMahon, one of U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd's five Republican challengers and former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment.
The complaint alleges that McMahon's campaign had the WWE remove specific [...] 
Minutes before the state Bond Commission's Friday meeting, Rep. Chris Caruso, D-Bridgeport, talked about how plans to build a girls detention and treatment facility in a residential neighborhood came as a complete surprise to him and Virginia Avenue residents.
But he was just as [...] 
Some of the answers a group of Connecticut doctors received were what you'd expect, while others were revealing, Dr. Kathleen LaVorgna said of a survey on health disparities.
The survey released Wednesday in The Journal of the Connecticut Medical Society found doctors need to' [...] 
The Democrat-controlled General Assembly won't try to override Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's last veto this week.
A spokesman for the House Democratic caucus said in an email Wednesday that no session will be scheduled Thursday or Friday this week.
However, it's an' [...] 
Before leaving to spend Thanksgiving in Colorado Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Wednesday afternoon that she would be calling the General Assembly back Dec. 15 to vote on her deficit mitigation plan and fix the state's fledgling campaign finance law.
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Four lawmakers quietly adjourned the longest budget battle in the state's history Thursday afternoon.
One Republican and three Democratic lawmakers gathered in an otherwise empty House chamber for what was called a "technical session" to adjourn 