Hartford (WTNH) – Holiday cards were signed today at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford for U.S. service members and veterans across the country and abroad.
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[...](WTNH) – Greenwich businessman Tom Foley will formally announce on Thursday that he is now running for the Republican nomination for Governor.
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[...]Washington (AP) – President Barack Obama plans to send 30,000 more troops to be deployed over six months, a senior administration official told The Associated Press Tuesday, escalating the 8-year-old war.
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[...]By EILEEN SULLIVAN
Associated Press Writer
Washington (AP) – The man who got into a White House dinner without an invitation denied Tuesday that he and his wife were gatecrashers.
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[...]Washington (AP) – President Barack Obama’s day will be dominated by his speech on Afghanistan this evening, but he does have other things on tap.
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[...]Washington (AP) – President Barack Obama’s deliberate approach to decision-making and a fascination with science is raising some eyebrows and drawing the logical question.
Is Barack Obama Washington’s Mr. Spock, the chief science officer for the ship of state?
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[...]Hartford (WTNH) – The state’s latest budget troubles have some people raising questions. Could efforts to close the deficit mean some higher taxes?
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[...]Wallingford (WTNH) – Jerry Labriola, Jr., a Naugatuck attorney, announced today he will seek the Republican nomination for the Third Congressional District to run against 20-year incumbent Democrat Rosa DeLauro of New Haven.
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[...]Lieutenant Governor Michael Fedele will formally announce his bid for Governor on Wednesday.
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[...]By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer
Washington (AP) – With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on President Barack Obama’s signature domestic issue, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the health care reform legislation to advance is coming apart.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Organizers say the national debate on health care reform will be a central theme at this year’s World AIDS Day event in Hartford.
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[...]HARTFORD (AP) – Dozens of florists, nursery workers, greenhouse growers and Christmas tree farmers are descending this weekend on the Governor’s Residence in Hartford to install holiday decorations.
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[...]HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Gov. M. Jodi Rell wants legislators to return to the Capitol to fix the state’s campaign finance reform law and attempt to close Connecticut’s budget gap.
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[...]WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Consumer activist and Connecticut native Ralph Nader says he’s “absorbing” the feedback he’s receiving about a possible bid for the U.S. Senate, saying he wants to first gauge the level of grassroots support before making a decision.
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Hamden (AP) – Police say a Woodbridge selectman has been arrested after driving drunk and leading state police on a three-mile pursuit.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Connecticut’s Green Party is hoping to persuade its famous native son, Ralph Nader, to jump into the hot U.S. Senate race.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Connecticut lawmakers want to know how the recession is affecting children.
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[...]By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – Michaele and Tareq Salahi didn’t look out of place at Tuesday’s White House state dinner. They were all smiles as they rubbed shoulders with Vice President Joe Biden, White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty and CBS [...]
(WTNH) - With his daughters at his side, President Obama Wednesday pardoned a turkey named ‘Courage’ at a traditional White House Thanksgiving event.
“Thanks to the interventions of Malia and Sasha – because I was planning to eat this sucker – ‘Courage’ will also be spared this terrible and delicious fate,” [...]
(WTNH) – Gov. Jodi Rell said she will call the general assembly into special session on December 15th to work on plans to close a projected budget deficit of $466.5 million.
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[...]Trenton, N.J. (AP) – Former CNN anchor Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey as “an intermediary step” that could lead to a run for the White House.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Connecticut’s healthcare advocate Kevin Lembo says he has filed paperwork to explore a possible bid for lieutenant governor.
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[...]Washington, D.C. (WTNH) – Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) issued the following statement today welcoming Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the United States. Singh’s visit is the first official state visit of the Obama presidency.
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[...]Hartford (WTNH) – Governor M. Jodi Rell announced Tuesday a comprehensive deficit mitigation plan intended to erase a shortfall of nearly $470 million in the state budget that took effect in September. The plan includes both spending cuts made under Governor Rell’s authority and cuts requiring legislative approval, further “fund [...]
Hartford (WTNH) – With the departure of Sam Caligiuri from the race for U.S. Senate and Tom Foley likely to follow, the Connecticut Democrats issued the following statement:
“For an allegedly “vulnerable” incumbent, Chris Dodd may not seem like such an easy picking to the candidates running against him. In [...]
(WTNH) – A Connecticut businessman who is running for the U.S. Senate now says he is considering a run for governor instead.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Sam Caligiuri says he’s switching races and plans to challenge 5th District Rep. Chris Murphy instead of Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd in 2010.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – A watchdog group that was created to review Connecticut state government contracts in the aftermath of scandals in former Gov. John Rowland’s administration has not met this year because of the state’s budget problems.
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[...]Hartford (WTNH) – Chief Capitol Correspondent Mark Davis sat down with Senator Joe Lieberman, Monday, to talk about health care.
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[...]Hartford (WTNH) – Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that the state’s foreclosure mediation program she championed with the co-chairs of the Legislature’s Banks Committee continues to help thousands of Connecticut residents avoid the loss of their homes.
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[...]Washington (AP) – President Barack Obama said Monday the nation’s economy is in good shape for the long term thanks to “core strengths” such as its universities, its innovation and a dynamic workforce.
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[...]STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) – The closest adviser to Gov. M. Jodi Rell says in a rare interview that it’s unfair to refer to Rell’s chief of staff as Connecticut’s shadow governor.
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[...]WASHINGTON (AP) – Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
Read more »With a key vote in the U.S. Senate scheduled for tomorrow night on national health care reform, Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman is one of the key Senators to watch.
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[...]Washington (WTNH) – Chief Political Correspondent Mark Davis talks exclusively, one-on-one with Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, the man in the middle of the national heath care reform debate.
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[...]Washington (AP) – The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., for making “inconsistent, misleading or incomplete” statements about the circumstances surrounding his appointment to the seat once held by Barack Obama. The committee didn’t recommend any punishment.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – South Carolina lawmakers say they’ll formally consider the possible impeachment of Gov. Mark Sanford for the first time next week.
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[...]Wethersfield (AP) – The Connecticut Labor Department says the state’s unemployment rate increased slightly to 8.8 percent, even though employers added 1,000 jobs in October.
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[...]Washington (AP) – The Senate will hold its first vote on health care legislation on Saturday night and Democrats will need 60 votes to prevail.
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[...]Washington (AP) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday the government’s $700 billion bailout program will end “as soon as we can,” and that part of it will be used to lower the soaring federal debt.
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[...]New York (AP) – Fox News Channel correspondent Major Garrett says he’s a “conscientious objector” in his network’s fight with the White House. He interviewed Barack Obama on Wednesday, and the topic never came up.
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[...]By DAVID ESPO
AP Special Correspondent
Washington (AP) – Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor this week would extend coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans at a cost of $849 billion over a decade, a Democratic leadership aide said Wednesday, citing a report from congressional budget experts.
Read [...]Hartford (WTNH) – Texting technology may soon be adaptable to the state’s 9-1-1 emergency service.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – Connecticut lawmakers are learning that the state’s budget woes are on track to get much worse in 2012.
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[...]Washington (AP) – Sen. Robert Byrd says he’s looking forward to the next 56 years and 320 days.
That’s how long he’s served in the House and Senate. The West Virginia Democrat today became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history.
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Newtown police booking photo of Jason Bartlett.
Newtown (WTNH) – A Connecticut state representative faces multiple violations after he was pulled over by police in Newtown.
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[...](WTNH) – Green Party of Connecticut officials announced Tuesday that they would welcome Ralph Nader into the 2010 race for U. S. Senate and think he would have a good chance to win against current Senator Dodd.
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[...]Hartford (AP) – The chairman of the Connecticut Republicans has asked one of his party’s candidates for U.S. Senate to consider switching races.
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[...]Washington (AP) – A Senate committee is hearing testimony today about the need to change the way banks impose overdraft fees.
In prepared remarks, consumer advocates tell the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee it’s an expense that hits young depositors and the poor particularly hard.
Read more [...]Meriden (WTNH) – All five of Connecticut’s members of Congress voted for health care reform in the House. But only one congressman is being targeted by the industry for that vote.
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