HARTFORD — As Metropolitan District Commission lawyers pursue an appeal of a multi-million dollar court award Rep. John Rigby and Sen. Kevin Witkos say they’ll push legislation aimed at making the nonprofit water company immune from legal suits filed by people injured at its recreational properties. The announcement from Colebrook resident Rigby and Witkos comes [...]
In the hours following the brief storm last Thursday which ripped through Bridgeport and the Lordship section of Stratford, Rep, Laura Hoydick joined Stratford Mayor John Harkins in support of Governor M. Jodi Rell’s application for FEMA assistance to the city. The storm has since been declared a tornado, having cut a path of destruction [...]
The CT Mirror: Growing surplus giveth, taketh away Excerpts taken from Keith Phaneuf’s June 23rd article “…General Fund revenues, excluding federal aid, are less than $320 million ahead of last fiscal year’s pace, despite just over $950 million in tax and fee hikes. Rep. Vincent J. Candelora of North Branford, the ranking Republican representative on [...]
RECLAIMING CONNECTICUT’S PROSPERITY By State Representative Marilyn Giuliano If Connecticut is to emerge successfully from this international recession, government must make hard decisions to underwrite a future of prosperity. During this last session of the legislature, this process began with a few important steps. The cancellation of old bond authorizations The General Assembly passed legislation [...]
House Republican Leader Larry Cafero sounded off in an editorial in the Norwalk Hour on the state’s slipping bond rating which is a direct result of the irresponsible budget management of majority Democrats in th elegislature. From the piece: The facts are that not a single Republican voted for the budget that resulted in the [...]
Loading ...