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Ritter's Lobbying Raises Questions
The Hartford CourantWhen is a lobbyist not a lobbyist? The answer, according to the complicated state laws that determine who's allowed to influence government officials in decision-making (which is what lobbying is, pretty much), is: When a person lobbies a public official...Tags: Religion and Belief, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Lawyers, Lobbying, Politics
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Ritter's Careful, Legal, Lucrative Career
The Hartford CourantI would like to begin by saying at no point did Thomas Ritter do anything illegal. Ritter has been working as a private attorney for the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority. It is illegal for him to be a paid lobbyist for them, so any lobbying he...Tags: Energy, Lawyers, Lobbying, Politics, Independent Energy Holdings Plc
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Curfew Means City Has No Solution To Violence
The Hartford CourantWhen I see what's happening in Bridgeport and its desperate attempts to curb violent crime by enforcing a curfew, I think back to Hartford's misguided efforts four years ago. The capital city was also throwing up its hands about how to respond to a...Tags: Abusive Behavior, Crime, Law and Justice
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Man Vs. Bear: Let The Games Begin
The Hartford CourantAlthough our state is no longer as broke as it was in 2010, we still need new revenue sources, which is why the Malloy administration has turned its attention to two very progressive ideas: online gambling and killing bears. The reasons: •The U.S....Tags: ESPN (tv network), U.S. Department of Justice, Toby Keith, Satellite and Cable Service, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Occupy Hartford: Police Deliver Shock And Awe
The Hartford CourantIt has become clear what we must do to get the Hartford Police Department to marshal its resources and move swiftly and effectively against drug dealers, robbers and homicidal punks. We must somehow persuade those evildoers to dress up in really stinky...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Religion and Belief, Heroin, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), Church and State Relations
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Naughty Or Nice, It's A Holiday Special Delivery
The Hartford CourantOK, it has been awhile. And yes they had to dig deep — DEEP — into the photo archives to find this mug. Make no mistake though, "Stanta" is back! Yes, by popular demand. (That's what I told the op-ed folks anyway.) You remember the routine....Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Joe Furey, Duke Blue Devils, Holidays, Politics
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It's Been An Honor
The Hartford CourantThe plan was to stay a year and then move on to a bigger paper in a bigger city somewhere. That was 17 years ago. I didn't know it then, but I didn't stand a chance. The Courant, and Hartford, did what it does to so many of us. It got under my skin....Tags: Journalism, Newspaper and Magazine, John G. Rowland, Arts and Culture, Mass Media
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Officer Fired For Alleged Overtime Fraud Collecting $73,800 Pension
The Hartford CourantBenjamin Quinones was fired March 24 from his high-paying state job as a lieutenant on the police force at the state mental hospital in Middletown after an internal investigation concluded that he had put in for 528 overtime hours that he didn't work. Now...Tags: Richard Blumenthal, Hospitals and Clinics, Politics, Joseph Ganim, Connecticut
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HUD Rent Arrangement With Segarra's Spouse Draws Attention
The Hartford CourantHartford Mayor Pedro Segarra's spouse, Charlie Ortiz, collects about $2,000 a month in federal Section 8 rent subsidies as the landlord for low-income tenants under a "housing choice voucher program" administered locally by the city, public records show....Tags: Politics, Civil Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Suffield, Pedro E. Segarra
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Segarra Needs To Stop Acting Naive
The Hartford CourantYou can only play naive new kid for so long in any job. And if anything comes from this past weekend's drama over Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra's failing to disclose his spouse's HUD rent agreement, it's that it's time Segarra stop playing that card....Tags: Chicago Housing Authority, Politics, Regional Authority, Values, Pedro E. Segarra
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On Inauguration Day, The Promise, And The Failings, Of Politics
Helen UbiñasAll eyes Wednesday were on the inauguration of Connecticut's 88th governor, Dan Malloy. There was pomp. There was circumstance. There was all the optimism and good cheer that comes with the beginning of a new political era. But if you wanted a more...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Suicide, Politics, Joseph Ganim, Thomas P. Gaffey
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Malloy Starts Kicking Out Rell's People
The Hartford CourantThe ax started to fall last week on political appointees who were given permanent civil service payroll jobs by the Rell administration in the months leading up to the change in governors. The new Democratic governor, Dannel Malloy, said he would have...Tags: State Budgets, Moody's Corporation, Trinity College, Politics, New York
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