News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 month ago
Jodi Rell has directed the state Department of Correction to consider closing one of the state's prisons to save money. Rell on Friday cited a decline in the inmate population and the agency's success with programs intended to help released...
News Source: Connecticut Post
| about 1 month ago
EST Former U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont's decision this week to explore a run for governor in 2010 has changed the dynamic of the race for the Democratic Party's nomination...Jodi Rell, who by month's end plans to announce whether she will seek...
News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 month ago
Jodi Rell has ordered about $34 million in state budget cuts in an effort to reduce the state's deficit. The order issued on Thursday came days after Comptroller Nancy Wyman predicted the two-year, $37.6 billion budget is already $624 million in...
News Source: Charlotte Observer Online
| about 1 month ago
Ned Lamont, the anti-Iraq war political phenomenon who nearly knocked Joe Lieberman out of the U.S. Senate, has turned his attention to next year's race for the Connecticut governorship. While his entry into an already crowded field of Democrats has...