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Gunmakers In Connecticut Will Host Two Governors Next Week, Not Just One

By On June 14, 2013 · 54 Comments

Connecticut gun manufacturers will welcome not one red-state governor on Monday, but two — as Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s tour is followed by a visit from South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard that afternoon and Tuesday.

Both of the Republican governors will tour the Colt companies in West Hartford and O.F. Mossberg & Sons in North [...]

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As Texas Gov. Perry Raids Connecticut, Smugness Won’t Work

By On June 10, 2013 · 230 Comments

Governors visit businesses in other states all the time, usually in low-key meetings that aren’t publicized. But that’s not how they roll in Texas, and Gov. Rick Perry is letting everyone know he’s on his way to New York and Connecticut next week to raid companies — complete with a $1 million TV ad [...]

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Backers of ‘Benefit Corporations’ Law Will Have To Wait Another Year

By On June 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment

As the state House and Senate wound down for the year last week, I wrote about one of many bills hanging in the balance: A measure to create a new class of corporations dedicated to some higher social purpose other than profit for the owners.

It looked good on the last day of the [...]

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Bill That Would Create ‘Benefit Corporations’ Hanging As Senate Winds Down

By On June 4, 2013 · Leave a Comment

One of the pluses of the state House and Senate finishing the budget with two days to spare is that smaller bills, good ideas that might actually improve Connecticut, are less likely to fall through the cracks in the final rush.

One such bill now hanging in the balance as tonight’s midnight deadline looms would [...]

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A Southern Lawmaker Sweet-Talks Connecticut Yankee Gunmakers

By On May 31, 2013 · 1 Comment

Alan Clemmons knew he had to act when he saw pictures of Texas Gov. Rick Perry arm-in-arm with a Connecticut gun company owner just a few weeks ago.

Clemmons, a state representative in South Carolina whose district includes Myrtle Beach, is a friend of Perry’s and supported his presidential run last year.  But Texas and [...]

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Groton Sub Base Sends Notices to 750 For Furloughs Starting July 8

By On May 29, 2013 · 3 Comments

At the submarine base in Groton this week, 750 civilian employees are receiving furlough notices that they’ll be off one day without pay each week for 11 weeks starting July 8, through the end of the federal fiscal year.

Click here for historic pictures of the submarine base

The furloughs are forced by sequestration, [...]

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Fortune 500 List: Some New CT Triumphs And an OUTRAGE

By On May 6, 2013 · 9 Comments

The Fortune 500 list for 2013 is out, and the ranking of publicly traded U.S. companies by total sales contains two new triumphs for Connecticut and one outrage.

In all, Connecticut has 16 companies on the list, our largest total in recent years, led, as always, by General Electric, the nation’s biggest industrial [...]

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CT’s U.S. House Delegates: No Apologies for Spending, Regulation

By On May 2, 2013 · 11 Comments

The message was clear Thursday as Connecticut’s five representatives in the U.S. House gathered in Hartford to talk about economic matters.

We need to invest.  We need to spend.

 

Whether it’s high-speed rail, advanced airline navigation systems, basic research, Head Start programs for kids, maintaining military bases, Obamacare or the Connecticut River dikes, the [...]

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Company That Makes Colt AR-15 Rifles Opening Factory In Texas

By On April 8, 2013 · 74 Comments

An Oregon company that makes Colt AR-15 rifles for Colt’s Manufacturing Co. is opening a factory in Breckenridge, Texas, expanding the iconic brand to a state that has aggressively courted Connecticut firearms makers.

The company, in Canby, Oregon, does business as Colt Competition and is part of Bold Ideas Inc., which licenses the Colt [...]

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Another Year, Another Base-Closing Threat As CT Defends Groton

By On January 8, 2013 · 6 Comments

The Pentagon is likely to seek another round of base closings in Obama’s upcoming budget proposal and this time, unlike last year, it won’t go away easily.

That’s the assessment from Bob Ross, director of the state’s Office of Military Affairs — who’s charged with leading the defense against defense cuts.

“It has to come,” [...]

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