Phoenix Coyotes general manager Don Maloney faces the tough task of maintaining the momentum of last season's surprising team while dealing with the financial restrictions put in place by the NHL ...
"By any measure, Connecticut has one of the worst property tax burdens in the nation, routinely much higher than national average. With a state income tax that hits lower- and middle-income wage earners the hardest, over-reliance on property taxes adds immensely to the overall unfairness of tax burdens in our state. Property taxes perversely undercut "smart growth," drive expensive sprawl and foment no-win competition for development among cities and towns." - Kevin Sullivan ... Kevin Sullivan,
This has got to be the laugher of the weekend -- Janet Peckinpaugh says she will primary in the 2nd CD -- against 2 other candidates on the Republican side to run against Joe Courtney. Last week, on Face the State, she couldn't recall who she voted for in November of 2008, or, um, if she voted at all. Probably couldn't tell you who was running, either ...
The West Hartford Taxpayers Association had a small army of citizens out gathering signatures, and they claimed that people couldn't sign the petitions fast enough, despite an effort put out by WHFirst to pass out leaflets asking people to refrain from signing and to "support the schools" ... The Town Clerk verified that the WHTA gathered more signatures than the required 6 percent of registered voters. The actual number of signatures needed was 2,295 and the Town Clerk certified 2,405 names,
He ran as a Republican ... Now he's a Democrat ... Yawn ... It's the same old Barbara Carpenter/Joe Verrengia escapade ... His run last fall, as well as the time before that, on the Republican ticket was essentially a lie ... Why should anyone be surprised that Davidoff has finally come out of his political closet? Truth be known, he's been voting with Democrats all along anyway ... So, now "the voice of reason" can go off and be verbose on the Democrat side of the table ... The Hartford
On Wednesday Rasmussen published the results of a telephone poll of 500 likely voters in Connecticut, and here's the results:Ned Lamont (D) 42Tom Foley (R) 35Some other 11Not sure 13Dan Malloy also has a lead, although slightly smaller, over Foely:Dan Malloy (D) 38Tom Foley (R) 35Some other 11Not sure 16Margin of error is 4.5%, putting the candidates in a theoretical dead heat. The last Rasmussen ...
Our local DTC put on the second annual Milford Democratic Party Awards Dinner last night at the Costa Azzurra restaurant overlooking Long Island Sound ... Attorney General Dick Blumenthal was the "Democrat of the Year" recipient, shown here after his introduction by Milford DTC chairman Rich Smith. Justin Rosen (R), recipient of the "Young Democrat" award, is shown here with Rep. Jason Bartlett and ...
Last night, Hartford’s West End Civic Association held a meeting for property owners along Whitney, Oxford and Fern Streets in an area known as the “donut hole” in a national historic district north of Farmington Avenue.A grant-funded effort is underway to apply for national register status so the donut hole is included—an area with 59 [ ... ] ...
Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized US citizen from Pakistan, was arrested late last night while trying to flee the country ... Shahzad had ties to homes in Bridgeport and Shelton, and police and FBI are searching those properties.The arrest was the result of good police work and a massive effort to track down the suspect ... I'm guessing that once authorities got the VIN number from the Nissan Pathfinder, ...
Details are still coming in slowly from the attempted bombing in Times Square last night. It brings to mind the Times Square bombing two years ago, which led to the shattered windows and busted glass door in the famous Army recruitment office ... I took the photo above when I'd been working in the area, and in fact was shook out of a sound sleep at about 4AM by the blast ... More details on that ...