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Apparently someone at the Courant would like to see the state’s freeways re-tolled. This editorial appeared over the weekend: State Rep. Tony Guerrera, D- Rocky Hill, is the latest among Connecticut lawmakers to propose restoring tolls to finance the repair and maintenance of the state’s aging highway infrastructure. We agree with Mr. Guerrera that a new revenue [...]
Seen in the Courant: Welcome to Connecticut. That’ll be $3, please. Leaving? OK, just pay another $3. That’s the future for motorists on highways crossing into Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York if state Rep. Tony Guerrera, D-Rocky Hill, wins his campaign to restore tolls in the state. Guerrera wants Connecticut to install high-tech tolls at seven key [...] 
Amazing; the feds are actually going for the idea. As seen in the Courant: The federal government on Tuesday committed $45 million toward the New Britain busway, the strongest sign yet that the long-planned and frequently delayed project will actually be built. The announcement was greeted cheerfully by Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Mayor Timothy Stewart, who [...]
OK, maybe the Senate campaign here in Connecticut will be boring after all. Public Policy Polling released the following polling update: Blumenthal is unusually popular, especially in hyper partisan times when voters like few politicians. 59% have a favorable opinion of him to just 19% who see him negatively. It’s no surprise that he’s liked by [...] 
Wow. As seen in the New York Times: Senator Christopher J. Dodd, the embattled Connecticut Democrat who was facing an increasingly tough bid for a sixth term in the United States Senate, has decided not to seek re-election this year, Democrats familiar with his plans said Wednesday.[…] Mr. Dodd has been a fixture in the Senate since [...]
Seen in The Day: Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed a pair of deficit-cutting bills Monday, saying the proposals passed by the Democrat-controlled legislature didn’t make sufficient reductions in state spending. The $12.4 million in spending cuts in the Democrats’ mitigation represented a "feeble" response to the current-year budget deficit, Rell said in a veto message, at a [...] 
Oy, vey: Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore on Thursday called for a boycott of the state of Connecticut in reaction to Sen. Joe Lieberman’s (I-Conn.) opposition to key provisions of healthcare reform legislation.[…] Moore focused his anger on the Connecticut voters who reelected Lieberman in favor of liberal candidate Ned Lamont (D-Conn.) in the 2006 elections. He tweeted: People [...]
With all the punting that goes on in politics these days, you’d think that American Football would have claimed the title of “national pastime” over baseball by now. Seen at CT News Junkie:
Seen in the Courant: This year’s massive reform by Congress of credit card industry practices was supposed to protect consumers and businesses from abusive rate increases and fees, but major issuers have jacked up rates ahead of the Feb. 22 deadline for the law. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal blasted [...] 
Between travel and work I haven’t had much time to do much recreational reading or writing. But to clear out the inbox right quick, I give you: Chop Suey: Over in Europe, Business Insurance mentions that the increased capital requirements for insurers proposed under Solvency II standards could have the side effect of reducing capacity for [...] |
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