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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 fourth-largest source of apparel imported into the U.S., delivering $4.5 billion a year in goods.
That’s more than double the amount imported from Bangladesh a [...]
There is something of a hierarchy in political ad nastiness.
The tamest ads – and yes, this is entirely relative – typically come from the candidates themselves, who have at least a modest disinclination to appear overly vicious.
Ads from political parties push the envelope a little farther, taking on topics or themes the [...]
If there is one topic on which the candidates for U.S. Senate in Connecticut have most consistently confused voters, it is the issue of federal income taxes. And Republican Linda McMahon continues that trend with a television ad revisiting familiar ground on taxes as well as job creation.
“On key issues, compare the candidates,” [...]
Chris Murphy’s drastically out-financed bid for U.S. Senate is enjoying fresh reinforcements from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which has committed $320,000 in advertising aimed at Murphy’s opponent, Linda McMahon.
What does this mean for voters? Well, this morning it meant not one, but two new attack ads on the airwaves. One is from the [...]
Flip on the TV these days and it seems like every channel is airing the fierce cage match between Linda McMahon and Chris Murphy. It remains to be seen if either candidate is bruised by the slugfest, but there’s little question that accuracy in political ads has taken a few body slams.
In this column, [...]
While Chris Murphy and Linda McMahon ran away with their respective primary wins in this year’s U.S. Senate race, the general election promises to be much, much closer. And if history is a guide, that means we may see plenty of ads on the airwaves for the next couple months that skate mighty close [...]
Years ago, I attended the annual conference of the Electronic Retailing Association – the fancy name the infomercial people gave themselves – and learned that when you’ve got 30 seconds to work with, the most successful pitches often ask viewers a simple and direct question with an obvious answer.
Linda McMahon, the Republican nominee for [...]
On the eve of today’s Democratic primary election, Fifth District Congressional candidate Dan Roberti has filed his financial disclosure statement for 2012, showing he liquidated a trust fund that held interests in his father’s lobbying, consulting and real estate businesses.
Roberti had sought an extension of filing deadline for the federally mandated form in order [...]
A veteran Danbury prosecutor accused of secretly photographing and videotaping women in the courthouse has been fired.
Senior Assistant State’s Attorney David M. Holzbach was terminated after an investigation found he had secretly recorded women, viewed pornography on his work computer during work hours and collected in his office “voluminous pictures of women, some [...]
A week and a half ago in this space, we wrote about a Danbury News-Times story revealing that a long-time prosecutor in the Danbury courthouse had been placed on paid leave after a complaint – at least the fourth going back 20 years – that he was secretly photographing or videotaping women in the [...]
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