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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 · 229 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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T. Boone Pickens In Hartford: CT Is Tops In Natural Gas

By On June 10, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Connecticut has had some low rankings in various business and economic lists lately, some silly, some serious. But on natural gas policy, energy magnate T. Boone Pickens has declared the state a winner.

“Maybe the best in the country,” Pickens said on a visit to Connecticut last week. “The state of Connecticut is going pretty [...]

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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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Perry’s Texas Welcome For Connecticut Gunmakers

By On May 5, 2013 · 130 Comments

Texas Governor Rick Perry might not have been able to name three federal agencies he’d close, but he has his sights attracting on at least that many Connecticut gun manufacturers and he used the NRA convention in Houston over the last four days to make his best pitch.

Along with his famous charm, Perry had [...]

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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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Don’t Blame Malloy — Blame People Magazine

By On May 2, 2013 · 14 Comments

There’s a lot of hand-wringing in Connecticut media and politics circles about Gov. Dannel P. Malloy accepting a trip to Washington DC and a night at the White House Correspondents Dinner from People magazine, and rightly so.

Never mind the governor’s legal and ethical judgment in letting that happen. What is People Magazine [...]

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Two Months Is Too Long For Gun-Ban Rules

By On April 29, 2013 · 39 Comments

So much has happened since April 4 that it seems like more than four weeks since Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed the strict gun control bill into law.  We had the showdown on background checks in the U.S. Senate, and of course, the Boston Marathon bombings.

One thing that hasn’t happened — and won’t happen [...]

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Congress Flies Through A Fix – To Help Congress

By On April 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Blogger’s Note: This post originally appeared on Friday April 26 but disappeared due to system problems.

It’s nice that Congress managed to unclog the air routes by un-sequestering air traffic controllers at small airports such as Tweed in New Haven, but really, the gesture is less than public-spirited.

Former state Rep. Patrick J. Flaherty, [...]

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