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Judge Gets 30-Day Unpaid Suspension
The Hartford CourantSuperior Court Judge E. Curtissa Cofield accepted a 30-day unpaid suspension from the bench Wednesday for allowing child-protection cases involving 10 foster children to languish in some cases for more than a year. It is the second time that the Judicial...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Lawyers, Racism, Juvenile Delinquency
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Was the First Airplane Actually Invented in Connecticut?
There are probably people at the Smithsonian Institution who wish they hadn't bothered to hire John Brown to help them research a television documentary. Brown is a U.S.-educated Australian living in Germany, a project manager for an aircraft...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Newspapers, Science and Technology, Germany, Smithsonian Institution
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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: Regional Authority, John DeStefano, Moody's Corporation, Civil and Public Service, State Budgets
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9/5/2012-New Linda
I hate the thought of Connecticut sending a Republican to the United States Senate. The last time we sent a Republican was back in 1982 when Lowell Weicker won the nod. He was still a Republican then, albeit a liberal. There aren't any of those left. They...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Linda McMahon, Republican Party
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'Political Landscape' Photo Exhibit At State Capitol Building
Tim Coffey, a Stamford photographer, takes political animals and puts them in their natural habitats. Coffee has a new exhibit of his photographs, opening on Wednesday, Aug. 1, at the Concourse Gallery of the State Capitol Building in Hartford. It's...
Tags: Themis Klarides, Stamford, M. Jodi Rell, Joe Lieberman, Concourse
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10 things you might not know about leaks
Society seems to be springing a leak. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was arraigned Thursday on charges of leaking official U.S. diplomatic correspondence that ended up on WikiLeaks. The Vatican is atwitter over news leaks that seem to signal a power struggle...Tags: FBI, Politics, Newspaper and Magazine, Explosions, Valerie Plame Wilson
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Rep. Terry Backer To Run For Re-election
After fighting brain cancer for more than a year, state Rep. Terry Backer said Tuesday that he will run for re-election if he keeps feeling as good as he does now. Backer, a Stratford Democrat who is among the longest-serving legislators, was looking...Tags: Politics, Terry Backer, Cancer, Health, Long Island
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A last vestige of Republican moderation
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelOne of the U.S. Senate's leading moderate Republicans died Saturday. Of course, I'm referring to a former senator, Charles Percy of Illinois. When it comes to today's heavily-right, brook-no-dissent Republican Party, you couldn't write the phrase “... -
Founding Fathers versus 'birthers' -- smackdown!
Opinion L.A.Now that all this "birther" foolishness is finally settled -- excepting the same pitiable core percentage that also may suspect magic tricks are the work of Satan (see my colleague Mark Barabak’s story about conspiracy thinking) -- I thought I... -
State Bracing To Set A New Record
Fox 61The State is bracing for setting a new State record and one it doesn't really want to break! If a budget is not passed by Saturday, August 22nd, State Lawmakers and Governor Jodi Rell will set a new record for going the longest without a State Budget...Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, State Budgets, M. Jodi Rell, Connecticut
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Ask Sam Smith
I was just wondering what you thought of David Halberstam? Did you ever work with him much, especially when he was writing 'Playing for Keeps'? I remember reading it -- the only Halberstam book I've ever read, unfortunately -- and thought it was just...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Politics, Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls, Horace Grant
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