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	<title>Ken Dixon&#039;s Blog-O-Rama &#187; Ken Dixon</title>
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	<description>Connecticut politics is a contact sport</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Red-light&#8221; proponents claim new poll shows 68-percent support among likely CT voters</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/22/red-light-proponents-claim-new-poll-shows-68-percent-support-among-likely-ct-voters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red-light cameras]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Of course it will be lawmakers, not voters, who will decide whether it becomes law, but here is the executive summary from the National Coalition for Safer Roads, which is promoting the use of red-light cameras to catch drivers running traffic signals and giving the revenue to eager towns and cities. The poll was conducted for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health care facilities would be banned from flushing unused medication down the toilet</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/21/health-care-facilities-would-be-banned-from-flushing-unused-medication-down-the-toilet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pharmaceuticals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Police]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Health care facilities, including &#8220;hospitals, nursing homes, residential health-care facilities, home health care agencies, hospice programs operating in this state, institutions, facilities, or agencies that provide services to persons with mental health illnesses or developmental disabilities&#8221; would be prohibited from flushing unused medication down toilets and sinks, under a bill before the Environment Committee. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPM Secy Ben Barnes offers &#8220;clarification&#8221; on Malloy&#8217;s arts-funding proposal</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/16/opm-secy-ben-barnes-offers-clarification-on-malloys-arts-funding-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arts funding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Dannel Malloy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OPM Secretary Ben Barnes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Dannel Malloy&#8217;s budget would cut about $11 million in line item funding for attractions including the Stamford Center for the Arts, the Discovery Museum and Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport, the Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven and the Maritime Center in Norwalk. Overall there is supposed to be an extra million bucks in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday (U.S. Sen.) Dick Blumenthal</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/13/happy-birthday-u-s-sen-dick-blumenthal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/13/happy-birthday-u-s-sen-dick-blumenthal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut&#8217;s junior senator, who at this time next year will be the senior senator, was born on this date in 1946.]]></description>
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		<title>Ouch! Gov. Malloy&#8217;s budget proposes slashing arts, culture, tourism grants by $2.35 million. Beardsley Zoo would be whacked for $354,350. But fear not&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/08/ouch-gov-malloys-budget-proposes-slashing-arts-culture-tourism-grants-by-2-35-million-beardsley-zoo-would-be-whacked-for-354350-but-fear-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arts Grants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statewide Marketing account]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It reads like a boulevard of broken artistic dreams. Among the items being &#8220;zeroed out&#8221; of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy&#8217;s budget is $378,712 for the Stamford Center for the Arts; $531,525 for the Maritime Center Authority; $1.98 million for the Culture, Tourism and Art Grant; $210,396 for the CT Trust for Historic Preservation; $2.1 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pot proponents &#8220;waking and baking&#8221;? Protest scheduled for today is postponed.</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/08/pot-proponents-waking-and-baking-protest-scheduled-for-today-is-postponed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/08/pot-proponents-waking-and-baking-protest-scheduled-for-today-is-postponed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[UConn Students for Sensible Drug Policy and other marijuana reform candidates had scheduled a demonstration outside the Capitol this morning. But the event was postponed until tomorrow, after news services reported yesterday of today&#8217;s plans on the &#8220;opening day&#8221; of the Legislature. Reporters were walking around the Capitol &#8211; the event was scheduled for 8 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Malloy will ask Legislature for $50 million in additional education funding</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/08/malloy-will-ask-legislature-for-50-million-in-additional-education-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/08/malloy-will-ask-legislature-for-50-million-in-additional-education-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Dannel Malloy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The governor&#8217;s budget proposal this afternoon will include $50 million in Educational Cost Sharing money, targeting low-performing schools with $40 million. Here&#8217;s his release: &#8220;(HARTFORD, CT) &#8211; As part of his proposal to reform education from early childhood through college, Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced an additional $50 million in Educational Cost Sharing (ECS) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malloy working on his partisan presidential-primary chops</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/07/malloy-working-on-his-partisan-presidential-primary-chops/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/07/malloy-working-on-his-partisan-presidential-primary-chops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Dannel P. Malloy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ObamaCar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RomneyCare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gov. Dannel Malloy took a few questions that were not education-related this afternoon at Central Connecticut State University, including a requested clarification from the governor&#8217;s Monday morning appearance on &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; in which he used the term RomneyCare, to describe the Republican presidential candidate&#8217;s healthcare legislation back when he was Massachusetts governor. Blogster: &#8220;So did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shorthand reporters running wild? Malloy will ask Legislature to eliminate more commissions</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/07/shorthand-reporters-running-wild-malloy-will-ask-legislature-to-eliminate-more-commissions/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/07/shorthand-reporters-running-wild-malloy-will-ask-legislature-to-eliminate-more-commissions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Dannel Malloy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the release: Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced a proposal to eliminate 25 of the state’s 258 boards and commissions to which he can make appointments to reduce overlap and shrink the size of government. “Over the years when these boards and commissions were first created by statute, most of them served a worthwhile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malloy, gathering strength for the big week ahead, is cooking up Anchor-style hot wings for the Super Bowl</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/05/malloy-gathering-strength-for-the-big-week-ahead-is-cooking-up-anchor-style-hot-wings-for-the-super-bowl/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2012/02/05/malloy-gathering-strength-for-the-big-week-ahead-is-cooking-up-anchor-style-hot-wings-for-the-super-bowl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo hot wingsa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Giants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Dannel Malloy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super Bowl]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Blogster just caught Gov. Dannel P. Malloy hard at work in the Governor&#8217;s Residence kitchen, concocting a mess o&#8217; Buffalo hot wings for the handful of friends who&#8217;ll come over for the big game. It will be a small crowd because of the frantic activities accumulating this week, including the presentation of his budget [...]]]></description>
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