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Premium Content Fiscal honesty key to governor's vision

 February 9, 2012

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy opened the legislative session with an inspiring speech calling for an "economic revival" in the state, a revival that is built on making Connecticut a world leader in bioscience research and development and high-tech...

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Premium Content No accounting for police custody homicide

 February 8, 2012

It has been a week since the Rhode Island Office of the Attorney General announced the startling and troubling news that a grand jury in that state declined to return any indictments against Westerly police officers in the apparent beating death...

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Premium Content Obama should amend birth-control order

 February 7, 2012

If the Obama administration's goal was to come up with a policy decision that in one fell swoop could reinforce the worst fears about the Affordable Care Act, while at the same time damaging the president's re-election chances in some key toss-up...

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Premium Content Process left our "Texas District" intact

 February 6, 2012

We know someone who lived in Barkhamsted, up in the northwest hills, for many years and voted in the Sixth Congressional District until the 2000 Census determined Connecticut no longer had enough people to be allowed six seats in...

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Premium Content Food stamps feed unfortunate need

 February 5, 2012

Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker and candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, dismissively refers to the current occupant of the White House as the "food stamp president."

"The fact is that more people have been put on...

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Looking for answers to the chaos in Cairo

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What kind of democratic revolution in Egypt is it that brings charges against 19 American NGO workers who have been advocating democracy? The answer is that it's a confused revolution, looking for people to blame for its troubles. The U.S. should...

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Will Israel go it alone on Iran nuke threat?

On Sept. 4, 2003, three Israeli air force F-15s flew low over the gates of the former death camp at Auschwitz. On the ground - on the train tracks, in fact, leading to the gas chambers - a delegation of Israeli...

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Bank-friendly Obama is far from a socialist

For all their bickering, the Republican presidential candidates don't have much trouble agreeing that President Obama has been terrible for the economy. Newt Gingrich says he's "a left-wing radical" bent on fostering "socialism." Rick Santorum...

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Israeli attack on Iran may be imminent

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has a lot on his mind these days, from cutting the defense budget to managing the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. But his biggest worry is the growing possibility that Israel will attack Iran militarily over...

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Raucous convention awaits GOP

For political junkies, this is the midwinter of our discontent. With the Florida Republican primary over with, there is more than a month to go before Super Tuesday, and the next debate is three weeks away. That means I have even less...

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Premium Content Obama as extravagant as other presidents

In response to the Feb. 2 letter, "How can...

Premium Content Criteria changes are needed to save base

Interesting Day article, "Potential base...

Premium Content Use war savings to close Medicare gap

Judy Benson's Feb. 1 article "More Medicare...

Premium Content Bush, not Obama started class clash

Republican leaders accuse President Obama of stirring up "class warfare" because he is asking the richest 1 percent f...

Premium Content Day reporter cool under pressure

This is in regards to the program 20/20 which aired on Jan. 27 on ABC in regards to the Shenkman story.

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NL Main Street meets challenge in difficult times

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New London is on the brink of unprecedented opportunity. Yes, that's right! In the midst of a devastating economic crisis and record unemployment,...

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Sunday sales law would kill our small package stores

Premium Content Lately we have heard much discussion about the governor's proposal on "Sunday Sales" for alcohol. Most people agree this is a reasonable...

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