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	<title>Political Capitol &#187; Brian Lockhart</title>
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	<description>Brian Lockhart covers the Connecticut General Assembly in Hartford</description>
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		<title>Bishop Lori&#8217;s birth control testimony skewered by Daily Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Show host Jon Stewart offered his thoughts last night on Thursday&#8217;s hearing in Washington D.C. before the House Oversight Committee on the birth control debate. Bishop William Lori, leader of the Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocese, was a participant. Stewart takes aim at Lori&#8217;s comments &#8211; specifically the Bishop&#8217;s story about a Kosher deli &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislative committee to consider Esty for DEEP Commish. What?!?!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politicalcapitol/2012/02/20/legislative-committee-to-consider-esty-for-deep-commish-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk about bureaucracy. Last year Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy nominated Daniel Esty to take over the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). The legislature held a confirmation hearing and backed Esty. Tomorrow, however, Esty will make another appearance before the Executive and Legislative Nominations Committee to make the case for his appointment. Why? &#8220;He was confirmed as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When policy and management secretaries attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Office of Policy and Management Secretary Ben Barnes &#8211; the state&#8217;s budget czar &#8211; is out with a scathing rebuttal to the GOP&#8217;s alternative state budget plan. You can read it below. -Barnes Barnes, who has had a long professional relationship with Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy, is proving to be far more combative in his role than mild-mannered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislature&#8217;s Banks Committee to ? Jepsen&#8217;s foreclosure deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Sen. Bob Duff, D-Norwalk and state Rep./U.S. Senate candidate William Tong, D-Stamford have scheduled a meeting of the legislative banks committee they co-chair to review the terms of that $25 billion multistate settlement with mortgage servicers. Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen was a key figure in the deal, which critics nationwide argue did not go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tong&#8217;s Lin stunt catches politicos&#8217; attention, but how about voters&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politicalcapitol/2012/02/16/tongs-lin-stunt-catches-politicos-attention-but-how-about-voters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Rep. William Tong, D-Stamford has again turned to a prominent member of the Asian-American community to help boost his campaign for the party&#8217;s U.S. Senate nomination. Tong, the first Asian-American elected to the Connecticut General Assembly, has touted endorsements from ex-U.S. Secretary of Commerce/Transportation Norman Mineta and San Fransico Mayor Ed Lee. Today the campaign sent out a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guv Malloy to make Cafero&#8217;s hometown whole on ed $$$</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy&#8217;s administration will find a way to restore education dollars to Norwalk cut from the proposed budget. How much of the lost $650,000 still needs to be clarified. Norwalk is home to House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero and is the only municipality losing aid under the governor&#8217;s new fiscal plan. &#8220;I think the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gov. Rell tried same arts cuts as Malloy, got same reception</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politicalcapitol/2012/02/16/gov-rell-tried-same-arts-cuts-as-malloy-got-same-reception/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been paying attention to the news this week, you&#8217;ll know several prominent arts organizations are up in arms over Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy&#8217;s proposed changes to their funding. Here&#8217;s a weekend column on the matter from Hearst colleague Ken Dixon, plus articles from the CT Mirror and Hartford Courant. Rather than doling out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Nardello to Senate Dems: Thanks for invite to your press event, NOT!!!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politicalcapitol/2012/02/15/rep-nardello-to-senate-dems-thanks-for-invite-to-your-press-event-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier I posted about a press conference held by state Senate Democratic leaders and their energy committee chairman on ideas for improving how utilities respond to major storms. I noted that curiously absent from the event were Democrats from the House of Representatives, even though supposedly everyone agrees on the legislative remedies needed to prevent the long-term outages suffered in August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Guv strikes deal to allow NU/NStar merger. What&#8217;s it mean for CT?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politicalcapitol/2012/02/15/mass-guv-strikes-deal-to-allow-nunstar-merger-whats-it-mean-for-ct/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politicalcapitol/2012/02/15/mass-guv-strikes-deal-to-allow-nunstar-merger-whats-it-mean-for-ct/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut regulators have just begun reviewing Northeast Utilities&#8217; proposed merger with Massachusetts-based NSTAR. But Massachusetts has been grappling with this issue for a while. Just a few minutes ago that state&#8217;s Democratic governor, Deval Patrick, announced at a press conference that his administration has agreed to bless the union in return for some concessions: 1. The electricity distribution rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many lawmakers trying to take credit for improving storm response</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/politicalcapitol/2012/02/15/many-lawmakers-trying-to-take-credit-for-improving-storm-response/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/politicalcapitol/2012/02/15/many-lawmakers-trying-to-take-credit-for-improving-storm-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Lockhart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Senate Democrats this morning held a press conference to highlight their proposals for turning the lights on faster following major storms like August&#8217;s Irene and the October 29 nor&#8217;easter. Their ideas &#8211; establishing utility performance standards and related penalties, improving tree maintenance and upgrading infrastructure &#8211; mirror the various concepts lawmakers have been floating [...]]]></description>
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