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Student's Free Speech Case May Lead To Legislation

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Arielle Levin Becker - Feb. 02 (News Report) - In his ruling on a pioneering Internet free speech case last month, U.S. District Judge Mark R. Kravitz offered something of a plea to higher courts: Revisit the boundaries of free speech for students. Kravitz was siding with Burlington school administrators accused of violating the First Amendment rights of a student they disciplined for a blog post she wrote off school grounds. And he offered an argument for why, in the Internet age, the old boundaries of what schools can regulate might not apply. "Off-campus speech can become on-campus speech with the click of a mouse," he wrote.

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DeLauro Calls For Investigation Of Defense Dept.

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Hartford Courant - By Jesse A. Hamilton - May. 10 (News Report) - Rep. Rosa DeLauro is asking Claude Kicklighter, the inspector general at the Pentagon, to investigate the Department of Defense's potentially furtive influence on military analysts who delivered the administration's war message on broadcast and cable news shows.

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Lieberman No Longer a Super Delegate

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Mark Pazniokas - Feb. 07 (Opinion) - Lieberman's endorsement of Republican John McCain disqualifies him as a super-delegate to the Democratic National Convention under what is informally known as the Zell Miller rule, according to Democratic State Chairwoman Nancy DiNardo.

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Democrats May Find Out The Hard Way

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:28:59 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Jonah Goldberg - Feb. 21 (Opinion) - There is an idea out there. Perhaps not a fully formed one. Perhaps more like the whisper of one gusting like a sudden draft through the rafters of the conservative house, causing some to look toward the attic and ask fearfully, "What was that?" This wisp of a notion is simply this: Maybe a Democrat should win in 2008.

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Rell's Plan To Tax, Spend Wows Democrats, Jars GOP

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:33:37 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Christopher Keating - Feb. 08 (News Report) - Words like "historic" and "brilliant" flew around the state Capitol Wednesday as legislators struggled to absorb details of Gov. M. Jodi Rell's two-year, $35.8 billion budget plan, which includes proposals for record-setting increases in education spending.

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Krayeske Pleads Not Guilty; Witness Surfaces

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:15:10 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Jon Lender - Jan. 30 (News Report) - Political activist and freelance journalist Kenneth Krayeske entered a not-guilty plea, requested a jury trial and saw his case continued until March 2 in Hartford Superior Court Tuesday -- as a new witness surfaced to dispute the Hartford police account of events that led to his controversial Jan. 3 arrest after he took pictures at Gov. M. Jodi Rell's inauguration parade to post on his commentary website.

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Police Printed Flier Warning Of Activist

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:01:27 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Jon Lender, Edmund H. Mahony - Jan. 19 (News Report) - Hours before the controversial arrest of political blogger Kenneth Krayeske at Gov. M. Jodi Rell's Jan. 3 inaugural parade, state police distributed copies of a full-color, two-page document describing Krayeske as an activist who had invited people to join him in a protest outside Rell's inaugural ball that night.

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LNG Plan Faces Gantlet

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:02:35 -0800

Hartford Courant - By David Funkhouser - Jan. 17 (News Report) - The Broadwater Energy project may have key federal regulators on its side, but whether the huge liquefied natural gas plant ultimately will be moored in the middle of Long Island Sound is far from certain. More than a dozen federal and New York state agencies will have some say on the project, too. It's too early to determine who will get the last word, but either way, the matter is likely to wind up in federal appeals court.

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Dems' dilemma: Who's electable in '08?

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:34:25 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Neil Vigdor - Jan. 07 (News Report) - Though Hillary Rodham Clinton lives in their backyard, local Democrats are very much divided on whom to support for their party's presidential nomination next year. The New York senator is one of several obvious and not-so-obvious names being bandied about by Democrats, who say it is still too early to tell which of their party's standard-bearers will be most electable.

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School Board Wants Options

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:15:37 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Rachel Gottlieb - Dec. 06 (News Report) - Faced with a report showing there were 13,159 suspensions from Hartford schools last school year - 131 more than the previous year - the school board on Tuesday gave the new superintendent tight deadlines to develop plans to train teachers in classroom management and reform the system that sends students home to serve their suspensions.

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The Kids Do Time, Too

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:10:58 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Rachel Gottlieb - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - In a city with 36,000 children, as many as 6,000 - one in every six - have at least one parent in prison, according to Hartford-based Families in Crisis, an organization that helps families of prisoners.

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Joe Keeps Focus On Mud

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:48:03 -0700

Hartford Courant - By Mark Pazniokas - Oct. 22 (News Report) - The press conference Thursday was part of a game plan Lieberman has closely followed for months to neutralize Lamont's wealth, his anti-war message and an energizing Democratic primary victory over Lieberman on Aug. 8. At every opportunity, Lieberman has stayed on message, defining Lamont as "Negative Ned."

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Nowhere Is Home

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:49:53 -0700

Hartford Courant - By Steven Goode, Colin Poitras - Oct. 15 (News Report) - Those who knew Sherry were acutely aware of the battle that raged inside her every day. She was a girl who admired Bach and Beethoven, sang in church and recorded a number for a children's CD. Most of all, she dreamed of finding a loving family, a home that felt like home.

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Unlikely Trail Boss

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:35:27 -0700

Hartford Courant - By Elizabeth Hamilton - Aug. 04 (Special Report) - Tom Swan is mumbling into his cellphone as he speeds down Route 8. That's nothing new. These days the phone seems to be permanently affixed to his head, like a nose or an ear, and Swan's barely audible, fragmented speech patterns have been rued by Connecticut's political reporters for years. But today the topic is a bit more intriguing than most - his candidate, Ned Lamont, has been invited to appear on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" the following week - and Swan is unusually animated.

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Lieberman Will Petition

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:36:56 -0700

Hartford Courant - By Mark Pazniokas - Jul. 03 (News Report) - Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman announced today he will petition for a place on the November ballot as an "independent Democrat," giving him a chance to stay alive politically should he lose an Aug. 8 primary for the Democratic nomination. Lieberman, 64, a three-term senator whose outspoken support of the war in Iraq has brought months of grief and inspired a strong primary challenge from Greenwich businessman Ned Lamont, announced his decision this afternoon at a brief press conference at the State Capitol.

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