Alyssa Hurlbut
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New Connecticut Lottery CEO optimistic, despite past issues
The newly appointed CEO of the Connecticut Lottery Corporation may be inheriting an agency rattled by scandal, a botched New Year’s Day Super Draw game, and a swath of employee arrests over the past three years, but his optimism is not wavering. → Read More
New GOP-driven effort looks to further school safety reform
With pressures inflicted in part by social media shaping a distinct, rapidly evolving generation of students, a largely-Republican group of lawmakers is looking to update the school safety reforms implemented in the wake of the 2013 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. → Read More
Secretary of the State gearing up for smooth, clean, secure primaries
As scandals involving Russian hackers meddling in United States elections usher in an era of voting-phobia nationwide, Connecticut is gearing up for a clean primary election next Tuesday. → Read More
In his final months as governor, Malloy appoints new general counsel
With about six months remaining of his second and final term, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is appointing a naval officer to replace Karen Buffkin as his general counsel. → Read More
Political War Persists as Haddam Selectwoman continues to kneel
The quaint, shoreline town of Haddam was transformed Monday evening into the front line of a political battle over free speech as protesters packed a routine Board of Selectmen meeting to register their opinions about the selectwoman who garnered national attention by kneeling during the Pledge of Allegiance. → Read More
Herbst proposes eliminating early release for good behavior
Norwich – Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Herbst’s tough on crime platform contains one element that runs counter to federal standards — the complete elimination of a policy that gives inmates the opportunity to shorten their time in prison through good behavior. Herbst rolled out his “Six Point Plan to Restore Law and Order to Connecticut” in front of Norwich Superior Court on Thursday… → Read More
How taking a knee in Haddam echoed in statewide politics
It was a 12-second protest — waged by a single selectwoman in a nondescript room in a small Connecticut town — but it has provided days of political outrage and the perfect platform for two Republican candidates to reassert party values. → Read More
May’s storm leaves the state with multi-million dollar clean up projects
On the evening of May 15, dozens of children huddled in Hamden’s West Woods Elementary School as the town’s emergency responders wrestled their way through collapsed trees that blocked the entrance to the building. The students in West Woods were just a handful of the victims of the violent May storm, which killed two, injured 83, knocked out power to 182,000 residents, caused more than $13… → Read More
Connecticut and others file promised lawsuit against Republican tax law
Connecticut joined three other northeastern states in a lawsuit Tuesday contesting new limits on federal tax deductions — aimed primarily at a dozen states that voted against President Trump in 2016. → Read More
Blumenthal sounds alarm on SCOTUS pick over protections for sick people
Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Thursday promoted a key Democratic strategy to try to block President Donald Trump’s choice to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court, warning the candidate would roll back the Affordable Care Act’s popular guarantee of health coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. → Read More
Multiple investigations follow pregnant teen’s death at state psychiatric hospital
With the autopsy still pending of a pregnant teenager who died in an apparent suicide at Connecticut’s psychiatric hospital for children, the Department of Public Health, along with an intersection of state agencies, has begun an investigation into the death. → Read More
DMV improves some wait times, lines still long at main branches
Michael Thomas was suffering through a two-and-a-half hour wait at the Department of Motor Vehicles office in Wethersfield on a recent afternoon when Gov. Dannel P. Malloy appeared on the TV in the corner of the crowded, dingy room. Thomas watched as Malloy cut the ribbon for the DMV’s newly opened self-serve licensing renewal kiosks in Milford, and sighed. “I still have 15 minutes to go,”… → Read More
Fasano's pet project: Banning the leasing dogs and cats
State Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano has a pet legislative project -- literally. He wants Connecticut to ban the practice of leasing, rather than selling, dogs and cats. → Read More
New partnership makes housing domestic violence victims easier
A new partnership between two state advocacy groups is enabling the state to provide more housing for the victims of domestic violence than either organization could alone, they and state officials say. → Read More
Malloy, Herbst welcome new UConn Engineering and Science Building
University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst and Gov. Dannel Malloy shared a celebratory moment Monday afternoon as they joined students, faculty, legislators, and industry partners in cutting the ribbon to the university’s new $95 million Engineering and Science Building. → Read More
High court's cake shop discrimination case ruling will have little impact here
The Supreme Court’s decision Monday in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to make a custom wedding cake for a gay couple will have relatively little impact in Connecticut, local observers say. → Read More