In Blue Connecticut, Plenty of Green for Both Presidential Candidates
Barack Obama has received donations from twice as many Connecticut residents as Mitt Romney, but Romney’s supporters have reached significantly deeper into their wallets, giving him a nearly $1 million...
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The Multi-Million-Dollar Battle for Connecticut’s Fifth District
With an open Congressional seat on the line, spending in Connecticut’s contentious Fifth District race has nearly topped $4 million, with both sides flooding the airwaves with campaign ads, new records...
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Claim Check: Pre-Election Roundup of Ads in Connecticut’s Senate Race
During the budget battles in Washington in the spring of 2011, a liberal group produced an ad featuring an elderly woman in a wheelchair being pushed through a park by a man in a suit and tie, while...
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Claim Check: Did Sales Really “Soar” over Black Friday?
“Black Friday weekend sales soar 13 percent to $59B” – Boston Herald During election season, that Claim Check logo up above usually indicated another politician flooding the airwaves with another...
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Don’t Get Too Excited About Falling Gas Prices
Gas prices in the Hartford area have dropped a nickel in the last week and more than a dime in the last month, giving motorists filling up with regular unleaded some comfortable distance from the...
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Minimum Wage Fight – Historically, $9 an Hour is Higher than Average but...
Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposal to increase the minimum wage in Connecticut to $9 an hour over the next two years predictably has brought strong reactions from those who find it a boost for the working...
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More and More U.S. Clothes Are Made by Bangladeshi Workers Earning Pennies an...
U.S. consumers horrified by the tragic building collapse in Bangladesh might want to check the manufacturer’s label on the clothing they’re wearing; data show the compact nation is now the...
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Powerball – As Easy as Guessing a Coin Toss. Twenty-seven Times in a Row.
Just as moviegoers are flocking to the reboot of The Great Gatsby, the Powerball jackpot has climbed to stratospheric heights that would impress even F. Scott Fitzgerald’s anti-hero. So what are the...
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Sorrry, Powerball Still Isn’t a Good Investment
The Powerball jackpot has topped half a billion dollars. So at what point does it actually become a statistically smart play? Sorry, not this weekend. Not even close. By the numbers, it may seem a...
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Nearly 10 Percent of Connecticut’s Bridges Are “Structurally Deficient”
The collapse of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River in Washington state Thursday night brings frightening memories of the deadly bridge failure near Minneapolis in 2007 and the collapse of the Mianus...
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Protesting a Six-Cent-a-Day Tax Hike
If your elected officials had some harebrained scheme that was going to jack up your cost of living to the tune of 6 cents a day, is that the sort of thing that would get your blood boiling and have...
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Why the Hike in Postage Rates Isn’t as Bad as You Think
The price of a first-class stamp jumps to 49 cents next week – a three-cent hike – and many mailers undoubtedly will grouse that the cost of sending a letter is bumping up against the half-dollar mark....
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Governor Asks Connecticut: “What’s On Your Mind?” Answer: “Guns.”
Last fall, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy invited the public to chime in on state regulations that are “outdated, unnecessarily burdensome, insufficient or ineffective.” More than 2,000 comments came in to a...
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Connecticut’s $10.10 Minimum Wage: Adjusted For Inflation, We’ve Been Here...
Connecticut is making national news with legislation boosting the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour beginning in 2017. With Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s planned signature on the bill Thursday evening, the...
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Connecticut Lottery: 43 Years, Nearly 25 Billion Dollars
Forty-three years ago, as Connecticut officials were gearing up to sell the very first tickets for the state’s newly approved lottery, Gov. Thomas Meskill bullishly declared that residents’ appetite...
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Connecticut State Budget, Fiscal 2017
Legislators are preparing to vote on a nearly $20 billion budget for the next fiscal year – a revised spending plan that trims more than $800 million from what legislators approved 11 months ago....
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