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Author: Neil.Vigdor@scni.com (Neil Vigdor)

Christie: If I was president, shutdown would be resolved

For the record, Chris Christie is leaving his political options open. Unplugged, New Jersey’s Republican governor will tell you that if he was president, the boardwalk in his home state would be the only thing open for business. The 11-day-old shutdown of the federal government would be a mere memory, Christie boasted to a group  

Brown: Obamacare “not ready for primetime,” sidesteps New Hampshire speculation

Scott Brown hasn’t swapped his Massachusetts plates for ones with “Live Free or Die” — at least not yet. The former U.S. senator made a run for the border Wednesday, not the one many pundits are expecting him to make in New Hampshire next year. Minus his trademark barn jacket and pickup truck, Brown is  

Remembering Tom Clancy

The literary mind who popularized Jack Ryan, the caterpillar drive, Operation Reciprocity and the “ol’ Potomac two step” has written his final chapter. Tom Clancy, the best-selling author of  “Patriot Games” and “The Hunt for Red October,” died Tuesday in Baltimore at age 66. What are your favorite scenes from his movies? Here are some  

CEO Perry: not-so-hostile takeover

Rick Perry’s surrogates deny that politics are behind the Texas governor’s courtship of Connecticut businesses, most notably members of the firearms industry. Lucy Nashed, a spokeswoman for Perry, emailed Hearst Connecticut Newspapers the following statement in response to comments by Connecticut’s economic development commissioner Catherine Smith calling Perry’s upcoming visit here a “head scratcher.” “As  

Tale of the Tape

A look at how the Constitution and Lone Star states stack up ahead of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s visit to Connecticut to lure businesses to his home turf.

Deep in the heart of Connecticut

So many panhandles, so little time for Rick Perry. Texas has one. Ditto for Connecticut, where the governor of the Lone Star State and former Republican presidential candidate is scheduled to visit Monday as part of what some are billing as a job-poaching tour of the Northeast. Despite the nature of Perry’s upcoming trip, which  

Murphy open to minor concessions on background checks; says ammo limits a longshot

Consumed by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre for most of his first six months in the Senate, Democrat Chris Murphy on Monday signaled that he would be willing to consider minor concessions when it comes to universal background checks for firearms purchases if it would help resuscitate federal gun control legislation. Murphy, who represented  

The Big D is for Dubya: Bush bundlers reprise role for presidential library

There is an afterlife for Bush Pioneers and Rangers, the monikers given to the top bundlers of campaign contributions for George W. Bush. It can be found on 5.2 acres of Dallas real estate on the campus of Southern Methodist University, home of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. A library, museum and think tank,