Monthly Archive for May, 2015
Connecticut homecoming for GOP’s first black congresswoman
Mia Love is the one who got away. Raised in Norwalk and educated at the University of Hartford, Love shattered a glass ceiling last November, when she became the first black woman …
Election officials subpoena records tied to Malloy campaign mailer
The scope of a state investigation into a direct mail blitz that the Connecticut Democrats did on behalf of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy last October and paid for with money from the party’s federal …
Wife of GOP chairman candidate is a Malloy judicial appointee
An emerging storyline in the three-way race for Connecticut GOP chairman is whether it’s possible to be an effective voice of opposition to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy when the Democrat just this year …
Amtrak will install cameras to check up on engineers
Amtrak says it will install inward-facing cameras in the engines of all Northeast Regional trains running between Washington D.C. and Boston. The order for cameras to check on train engineers came in …
BREAKING: Rowland avoids prison — for now
Former Gov. John Rowland will not have to report to prison next month. A federal judge on Thursday granted the disgraced Republican bond while Rowland appeals his 30-month sentence for campaign fraud, …
From the White House press pool, POTUS lands in CT
This from Washington newsman Mark Knoller, of CBS: “POTUS landed in Groton/New London at 10:29 a.m. He disembarked with Jeh Johnson at his side, then broke away to shake hands at a rope line across …
Gridlock alert issued for Obama’s visit
Update, 3:30 p.m. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A punctual President Barack Obama touched down 10 minutes early in Air Force One at Westchester County Airport Wednesday, en route to a VIP …
Hillary Clinton to hit fundraising trail in Greenwich
Hillary Clinton is harvesting campaign cash in her backyard — Bush family roots be damned. The prohibitive favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination will hit the fundraising trail June 5 in …
Murphy looks to bolster sagging rail infrastructure
Call it “The Bridges of Fairfield County.’’ It’s a tale not of romantic covered bridges but workhorse structures that have carried commuter trains and freight over rivers for more than a century. …
Defense: no attempt to cover-up by Rowland
The defense for John Rowland, who is less than a month away from reporting to prison for a second time since resigning as governor in 2004, is disputing that the disgraced Republican attempted to …
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