The Intersection of Health and Law Conference
Saturday April 17, 2010
First, many thanks to all of you who have submitted some excellent workshop proposals. For others who have not yet sent in your proposal, you still have a few days. Deadline is Dec 5, 2009.
In [...]
From My Words To Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix — Performing Transgender Rage by Susan Stryker
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Ms. Stryker explores the evolution of her own feelings about transsexual embodiment and ultimately reclaims the word “monster” (!) for herself and for any transgender persons courageous [...]
The following is a very interesting read touching many issues around “Asian Queer Studies” and the import of Queer, a term rooted in an Anglo-American discourse. The piece is from: Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context, Issue 14, November 2
Introduction: Of Queer Import(s):
November 29, 20095:00 pmto8:00 pmCome Out, Come Out Wherever You Are for a Queer discussion around Queer organizing in Connecticut!
Date: Sunday, November 29, 2009
Time: 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Metropolitan Community Church
Street: 155 Wyllys St
City/Town: Hartford, CT
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Marriage equality represents a [...]
December 1, 200911:00 amto1:00 pmHartford’s World AIDS Day event will take place on December 1st, 11 AM - 12, at the Connections Drop-in Center, located at the Institute for Community Research, 146 Wyllys St, Hartford.
Hartford City Councilman Luis Cotto, will be the keynote speaker,' [...]
The state court system aims to close the Bristol courthouse by March a, 2011 in order to save $150,000 in lease and operating expenses, according to the chief court administrator.
Judge Barbara M. Quinn recently told the legislature’s appropriations committee that three courthouses – in Bristol, Willamantic and Norwalk – [...]
As the capitalist media, corporations and their soulless management prepare for the “holiday” onslaught of constant media brainwashing, senseless greed, manipulation, practices of usury to enslave, and on and on and on; not to mention the sickening music with which to march the lemmings to their malls of worship ~ [...]
The state Capitol will be quiet today because of a state employee furlough day that was enacted under law as part of a budget-saving measure in a difficult financial year.
Many state offices will be closed, but the courts will remain open for those involved in criminal and civil cases.
The next [...]
We have all seen and felt the devastating impacts of so-called Free Market Capitalism. We are now experiencing “officially” reported double digit unemployment, when including the “underemployed” we know unemployment exceeds 15%, while exceeding 30% within a number of communities. Connecticut reports an 8.8% unemployment rate though we know that [...]
To all our readers - and there are many thousands of you each month - Happy Thanksgiving!
This blog, which was created on less than two days' notice at the end of the 2007 legislative session, is fast approaching a milestone of 1,000 posts.
Thanks for reading along for the latest in Connecticut' [...]
The state's nursing homes are highly concerned about Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell's proposal to cut Medicaid rates for nursing homes by 2 percent.
The cuts, however, cannot be made with approval by the Democratic-controlled legislature. Matthew Barrett, a former state employee who now serves as executive vice president of the [...]
Lou Dobbs, the former CNN business anchor, might run for the U.S. Senate in 2012 from his home state of New Jersey.
Dobbs, who was one of the best-known faces on CNN for years, recently stepped down from the network in an abrupt announcement on his program.
The details are at [www.courant.com]
[...]Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell is calling the Democratic-controlled legislature into special session on December 15 to cut state spending and try closing the state's projected budget gap.
Rell also wants lawmakers to make changes in the new campaign finance reform law, which has been the subject of controversy and a federal [...]
On one level, there isn’t much to say about the 2,000-foot-long, unnamed brook that begins somewhere in the storm drains above El Toro Drive and flows into the mushy ground at the base of Nelson’s Field.
It’s just one of scores of tiny rivulets that meander through the hills of [...]
It's official.
The state's planned cut in the sales tax will not take effect January 1. Many legislators had predicted that the contingent tax cut would never happen because of the continuing weakness in the economy.
But the blocking of the tax cut did not become official until the state comptroller certified - [...]
The three candidates remaining in the now sharply smaller Republican senatorial field will undoubtably work to secure the backing of those who supported the two candidates who left the race today, state Sen. Sam Caligiuri and former ambassador Tom Foley.
Rob Simmons got an early start. Just hours after Caligiuri announced he was leaving [...]
Our colleague Rick Green weighs in on the Republican political shake-up that involves former Ambassador Tom Foley considering dropping out of the U.S. Senate race and running for governor.
It's at [blogs.courant.com]
On Sen. Chris Dodd, he also says [blogs.courant.com]
[...]Connecticut Democrats are closely watching the shake-up across the aisle. Party spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan said today's departures of Sam Caligiuri and Tom Foley indicate a growing consensus among the GOP that Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd may not be as easy a conquest as they had initially hoped.
"For an allegedly 'vulnerable' incumbent, Chris Dodd may" [...]
Tom Foley on Nov. 9, 2009, the day Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced she would not seek reelection:
"As a candidate for the U.S. Senate, I look forward to working with others to make sure a Republican Governor is elected in 2010," Foley said in a statement.
Tom Foley on Nov. 24, [...]
Former U.S. Senate candidate Sam Caligiuri announced today that he'll be running for Congress from the 5th Congressional District.
UPDATE: Here's state Democratic spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan's take on Caligiuri's switch.
"Languishing in last place in the U.S. Senate race, Sam Caligiuri is shopping around for a campaign to run like most people" [...]
Tom Foley, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, released the following statement this morning:
"Last spring I entered the race for the United States Senate because I wanted to serve the people of Connecticut. Recently, the political landscape in Connecticut has changed. We no longer have" [...]
Kevin Rennie breaks the following news on Facebook (via Capitol Report)
'a friend reports that GOP Senate hopeful Tom Foley told the West Hartford Republicans last night that he is considering hightailing it into the less competitive race for governor. He'll decide in 2 week' developing...
...'sounds like decision has been made'
Justin' [...]
Despite raising taxes and holding the line on spending, the state is still facing a huge budget deficit for the current fiscal year.
With that in mind, the administration of Gov. M. Jodi Rell is reminding all commissioners and agency heads that they must continue to watch their budgets closely. An internal [...]
In a sharply-worded email, state Democrats are taking Republican Senate candidate Rob Simmons to task for failing to back a health-care plan supported by more than half of the state's residents.
Simmons, who is running for the Senate seat held by Democrat Chris Dodd, one of the architects of the health-care' [...]
Remember the Louisiana Congressman who was caught with $90,000 in cash in his freezer?
The case generated widespread publicity after Rep. William J. Jefferson's home was raided in 2005, setting off a torrent of commentary around the nation. The publicity increased about nine months later when FBI agents raided the New Orleans' [...]
Baseball fans in New Britain and throughout the Hartford area remember Joe Mauer from the days when he was the catcher for the New Britain Rock Cats.
Today, he was named the Most Valuable Player in the American League for the Minnesota Twins. That's not bad for a guy who was playing in [...]
U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman is a key player on health care reform and could potentially be the 60th senator.
That number is particularly important because it takes 60 votes to cut off a filibuster that could derail health care reform.
On NBC's Meet The Press on Sunday morning, Lieberman discussed the issue [...]
POLITICO has an interesting story today about the growing role South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint is playing in competitive Congressional races around the country.
DeMint, it seems, has become the go-to guy for Republican candidates. Not just conservatives, the story states, but moderates as well: "[I]n a sign of his growing influence, several of the" [...]
We have had reports that the blog has been looking kinda funky and we suspect it may have been one of the prior posts. So we have put this test post on the main page to see if folks are still experiencing problems seeing just this one post. Please submit [...]
now with an extra serving of tool-ness:
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) raised hackles among liberals earlier this week when he claimed [...]
How much money will wrestling entrepreneur Linda McMahon spend in her campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd?
That question has been widely debated in political circles as McMahon has already spent far more money than any other candidate in the race - on television commercials, full-page newspaper advertisements, and brochures [...]
Sen. Chris Dodd said the nation is "one step closer to responsible reform" following tonight's vote in the Senate to allow full debate on a planned overhaul of the nation's health-care system.
"We will have a full and open debate on this important issue,'' Dodd said in a statement. "But [...]
Former state Rep. Bill Dyson and media strategist Dean Pagani will be among the guests Sunday morning on "The Stan Simpson Show'' on Fox 61.
Dyson, the longtime co-chairman of the budget-writing appropriations committee who retired as the dean of the House of Representatives, and Pagani, the former chief of staff" [...]
The University of Connecticut announced Friday that it has called off a controversial proposed merger between the UConn Health Center and Hartford Hospital - a deal that failed to gain enough support at the state Capitol.
The announcement came soon after the faculty at the health center voted this week to [...]
Owner of Bristol Mums Inc., he oversees the cultivation of hundreds of thousands of the [...]
i read the headline and i winced
