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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>Agricultural Experiment Station would get more power</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/16/agrocultural-experiment-station-would-get-more-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 21:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate just put on its consent calendar a bill that would give the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station tougher enforcement powers in cases where people or firms ignore their rules or fines. The current fine range of $5 would rise to $500 and the $100 fines would get pumped up to $2,500 under the bill<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/16/agrocultural-experiment-station-would-get-more-power/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Connecticut unemployment rate stuck at 8 percent: DOL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 15:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is from the state Department of Labor: &#8220;WETHERSFIELD, May 16, 2013 &#8211; On a seasonally adjusted basis, preliminary estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicate Connecticut businesses added 6,300 jobs to nonfarm payrolls in April 2013. The private sector added 5,800 workers and the public sector increased 500 positions. The state’s<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/16/connecticut-unemployment-rate-stuck-at-8-percent-dol/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>House Minority Lder Larry Cafero, a year after FBI interview, recalls close encounter of the influence-peddling/entrapment kind</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/14/house-minority-leader-larry-cafero-a-year-after-fbi-interview-describes-a-close-encounter-of-the-influence-peddling-kind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[House Minority Leader Larry Cafero]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Soucy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; House Minority Leader Larry Cafero’s name was slung around Tuesday in the federal corruption trial of former House Speaker Chris Donovan’s former congressional campaign’s former finance director Robert Braddock Jr. A defense attorney in federal court in New Haven used the word “bribe” to describe a $5,000 cash contribution, after what Cafero thought was<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/14/house-minority-leader-larry-cafero-a-year-after-fbi-interview-describes-a-close-encounter-of-the-influence-peddling-kind/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Frantz, a Republican, plants idea for new revenue?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school crossing guards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Scott Frantz]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Scott Frantz, R-Greenwich, was just speaking about a bill that would allow school crossing guards to seek up to $450 fines for drivers who ignore their stop signs. He said that protecting our children is a lot more important than worrying about hitting drivers with fines of up to $450 that they might not<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/14/frantz-a-republican-plants-idea-for-new-revenue/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bill that would let towns and cities avoid paying newspapers for legal notices in the recycle bin?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/14/bill-that-would-let-towns-and-cities-avoid-paying-newspapers-for-legal-notices-in-the-recycle-bin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connecticut Daily Newspaper Association]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; HARTFORD – Legislation that would have allowed towns and cities to publish truncated legal notices and save money had one foot in the recycle bin this afternoon, when Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney used a parliamentary move to sideline  it – at least temporarily. The bill was put on the “foot”<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/14/bill-that-would-let-towns-and-cities-avoid-paying-newspapers-for-legal-notices-in-the-recycle-bin/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>McKinney, noting apparent IRS agenda targeting Patriot-Tea Party groups, renews call for CT inspector general</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/13/mckinney-noting-apparent-irs-agenda-targeting-patriot-groups-renews-call-for-ct-inspector-general/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 19:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate Minority Leader John McKinney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This from State Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, who cheered on the recent revelation about the IRS&#8217;s targeting Tea Party and Patriot conservatives, as exposed by J. Russell George, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration. McKinney: “The continued success of federal inspectors general in rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/13/mckinney-noting-apparent-irs-agenda-targeting-patriot-groups-renews-call-for-ct-inspector-general/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bill inspired by the death of Kenneth Dorsey, struck by distracted New Canaan HS athlete Brianna McEwan, advances in Judiciary Committee</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/07/bill-inspired-by-the-death-of-kenneth-dorsey-struck-by-distracted-new-canaan-hs-athlete-brianna-mcewan-advances-in-judiciary-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 18:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brianna McEwan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distracted driving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Dorsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Canaan High School]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  The Judiciary Committee today approved legislation that was provoked by last year&#8217;s death of a Norwalk jogger who was struck by an SUV driven by a distracted New Canaan High School athlete. The bill heads to the Senate. The bill would allow police to seek up to $1,000 in additional fines, above and beyond<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/05/07/bill-inspired-by-the-death-of-kenneth-dorsey-struck-by-distracted-new-canaan-hs-athlete-brianna-mcewan-advances-in-judiciary-committee/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>State DOT launches $600,000 (first year) program to analyze car-crash data, increase highway safety</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/04/29/state-dot-launches-600000-first-year-program-to-analyze-car-crash-data-increase-highway-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Dannel P. Malloy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut&#8217;s 5,000 vehicular crashes per month have created an analytical bottleneck of paperwork, so Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, State Department of Transportation Commissioner Jim Redeker and UConn Provost Mun Choi announced today that the six-month-old Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center at UConn in Storrs will become an important new resource, replacing the paper chase. The<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/04/29/state-dot-launches-600000-first-year-program-to-analyze-car-crash-data-increase-highway-safety/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Government watchdogs want answers from DEEP on Commissioner Esty&#8217;s contact with utility executives. DEEP responds, too</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/04/26/government-watchdogs-want-answers-from-deep-on-commissioner-estys-contact-with-utility-executives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The Connecticut Citizen Action Group and Common Cause in Connecticut have filed a request under the state Freedom of Information Act to review communications between Dept of Energy and Environmental Protection Commissioner Dan Esty and utility executives. Here&#8217;s the request, followed by an initial response by Dennis Schain, communications director for the DEEP: Dear<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/04/26/government-watchdogs-want-answers-from-deep-on-commissioner-estys-contact-with-utility-executives/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Seventh plea among the eight arrested in 5th CD campaign scandal</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/04/19/seventh-plea-among-the-eight-arrested-in-5th-cd-campaign-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Dixon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This release just came from the U.S. Attorney: &#8220;WOLCOTT MAN ADMITS ROLE IN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION SCHEME           David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that GEORGE TIRADO, 36, of Wolcott, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to a federal conspiracy<a class="moretag" href="http://blog.ctnews.com/dixon/2013/04/19/seventh-plea-among-the-eight-arrested-in-5th-cd-campaign-scandal/"> &#160;Read More</a>]]></description>
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