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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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Voter Registration Should Be Automatic

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Robyn Blumner - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - The problems arose because our old system of state-by-state registration rules — some of which appear designed for a mail system via pony express — is outmoded and frankly retains vestiges of our racist past. We need to follow the lead of at least 24 other countries and adopt a system of automatic and permanent voter registration.

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Economy Among Issues Leading Some Veterans Away From McCain

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Hartford Courant - By Rinker Buck - Oct. 29 (Special Report) - Today, even though he once voted for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Creed is co-chairman of Connecticut Veterans for Obama, an affiliate of Barack Obama's campaign that is dispatching volunteers to swing states and manning phone banks for Obama.

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Dodd Decides: No Story In Loan Deals -

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Hartford Courant - By Kevin Rennie - Oct. 19 (News Analysis) - Dodd went from it's outrageous to think he would profit from his office, to he didn't know he got valuable special deals, to he thought everyone who refinanced with Countrywide got that kind of treatment. Those dizzying contradictions on the easy questions must have left Dodd cowering as he contemplated explaining documents that would show he knew what Countrywide was doing for him — each answer putting the lie to his past protestations. That Countrywide employed lobbyists to influence Dodd and his colleagues while the lender lavished benefits on the senator may ensnare him in an ominous encounter with the Senate's ethics committee. It would be harder for that body to whitewash a violation if the insidious mortgage details are known to a suspicious public.

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Army Sees Record Number Of Suicides In Iraq

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Hartford Courant - By Lisa Chedekel, Matthew Kauffman - May. 30 (News Report) - The Army is losing its battle to stem suicides among troops serving in Iraq, with a new report showing that 32 soldiers killed themselves in the war zone last year -- a record high since the war began five years ago.

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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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Many Returning Troops Struggle To Reconnect

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Hartford Courant - By Lisa Chedekel - Mar. 16 (News Report) - From a distance, the more than 11,000 state residents who have returned from war in the past five years have disappeared seamlessly into the Connecticut landscape -- back to colleges, spouses, civilian or military jobs. -- But up close, the transition has not been so smooth.

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Wronged wives seek to protect families

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Hartford Courant - Mar. 12 (Review) - Why, oh why, do so many political wives stand behind their fallen husbands when they make public pronouncements of infidelity? Take Silda Wall Spitzer, Harvard Law-educated wife of a New York governor who was a client of a high-end prostitution ring.

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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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Registrars Of Voters Go Ahead With Hire

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:41:47 -0700

Hartford Courant - By Monica Polanco - Oct. 23 (News Report) - The registrars of voters decided Monday to hire a moving company co-owned by a Republican common council candidate to transport voting machines and ballots on Election Day.

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Halliburton's HQ Moving To Dubai

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 08:51:34 -0700

Associated Press - By Jim Krane - Mar. 12 (News Report) - Oil services giant Halliburton Co. will soon shift its corporate headquarters from Houston to the Mideast financial powerhouse of Dubai, chief executive Dave Lesar announced Sunday. "Halliburton is opening its corporate headquarters in Dubai while maintaining a corporate office in Houston," spokeswoman Cathy Mann said in an e-mail to The Associated Press. "The chairman, president and CEO will office from and be based in Dubai to run the company from the UAE." Lesar, speaking at an energy conference in nearby Bahrain, said he will relocate to Dubai from Texas to oversee Halliburton's intensified focus on business in the Mideast and energy-hungry Asia, home to some of the world's most important oil and gas markets.

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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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The Unbearable Rightness Of Krayeske

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:56:19 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Colin McEnroe - Jan. 21 (Opinion) - As all the world knows, Krayeske was arrested by the Hartford police for doing absolutely nothing during the inaugural parade for Gov. M. Jodi Rell earlier this month. He was held in jail for 12 hours on $75,000 bail. I would like to point out that I, too, was doing absolutely nothing on that day and have received none of the abuse and subsequent attention lavished on Krayeske.

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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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Hospitals Still Reluctant To Offer Plan B Pill

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:45:57 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Hilary Waldman - Jan. 19 (News Report) - Even as the Plan B emergency birth control pill was heading toward more widespread availability at pharmacy counters, 40 percent of rape victims who sought care at Connecticut hospitals in the first half of 2006 were not offered the medication or were sent home without the full dose of the drug needed to prevent pregnancy, rape counselors say.

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Dental Effort In Peril

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:45:33 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Hilary Waldman - Jan. 18 (News Report) - A program at the University of Connecticut Health Center aimed at closing the dental divide between rich and poor by recruiting more minority dentists will end this summer, when a private grant expires. The program was part of a national experiment funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that gave bright black and Latino college students extra help to pass the dental school admission test and go on to graduate. Research has shown that minority dentists are more likely to devote at least part of their careers to treating people in underserved communities.

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Homework Begins For New Education Chief

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:05:45 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Robert A. Frahm - Jan. 18 (News Report) - How Mark K. McQuillan, a former deputy education commissioner in Massachusetts, approaches testing and student achievement will be watched closely as he assumes oversight of public education in Connecticut. Of particular concern is the poor performance of many low-income and minority children, especially in the state's big cities, where the gap between them and middle-class white children is among the largest in the nation.

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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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Educator Chosen To Head Agency

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:22:31 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Robert A. Frahm - Jan. 17 (News Report) - A Massachusetts educator who helped lead that state's effort to bolster sagging performance among low-income and minority students will be named Connecticut's next education commissioner today.

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Dodd's Quest: A Long Haul

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:05:02 -0800

Hartford Courant - By David Lightman - Jan. 16 (News Report) - The Connecticut senator will need all of that effortless charm, that eagerness to engage people and that passion for Democratic causes as he launches his campaign for the nation's highest office. Conventional wisdom says the 62-year-old senator is a second-tier candidate for the presidency. He barely registers 1 percent in most polls, when he registers at all. Many political observers have deep doubts about Dodd's candidacy. They say he may not be able to raise the enormous amount of money he'll need. They say that he's a New England liberal and that he can't distinguish himself and his views from better-known candidates. But others warn he should not be counted out.

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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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Austin Leaving UConn

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:26:52 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Grace E. Merritt - Dec. 20 (News Report) - University of Connecticut President Philip E. Austin announced this morning that he will resign effective next September after serving 10 years at the helm of the state's flagship university.

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Dodd Could Back Buildup

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:37:23 -0800

Hartford Courant - By David Lightman - Dec. 18 (News Report) - Two key Democrats, including U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, said Sunday they could back a temporary increase in the number of U.S. troops in Iraq - but only if that surge was for a very short period and specifically helped end American involvement.

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Appointees Have Done Well With Rell

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:43:02 -0800

Hartford Courant - By Jon Lender - Dec. 11 (News Report) - After M. Jodi Rell became governor in 2004 upon her corrupt predecessor's resignation, she said she would protect taxpayers' money as if it were her own - noting that she had cut Coca-Cola from her household budget because buying it all the time added up to "real money." Now, after winning election in her own right Nov. 7, Rell has positioned herself to use that same frugality in dealing with a growing taxpayer expense: the ever-expanding army of $100,000-a-year political appointees - some of them associates of convicted ex-Gov. John G. Rowland - whose collective salaries rose about 18 percent in the past three years.

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