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Connecticut News Sat July 19, 2008
Barack Obama may have abandoned public financing for his presidential campaign, but in Connecticut legislative candidates are lining up to get campaign cash from the state government.About 70 percent of the Nutmeg State's candidates for General Assembly this year are expected to sign on to a new public financing election program. Not only does it provide hefty grants, it offers extra money to combat opponents who don't participate and a promise of more cash to counter negative ads from third parties.
Candlewood Lake Boat Collision Kills 2, Injures 3
Authorities say an overnight collision between two boats on Candlewood Lake in western Connecticut has killed two men.
Conn. officials demand reversal of VA ban
Connecticut officials are now threatening legal action against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs over its refusal to allow voter registration drives at veterans homes, hospitals and other VA facilities.
Conn. woman Rock Hall's 7 millionth visitor
A Connecticut woman ambushed with prizes as the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's seven millionth visitor says one in particular will come in very handy.
Connecticut welfare worker charged in...
An employee of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families has been charged in the death of a 7-month-old foster child placed in her care.
Connecticut Man Sentenced for Role in Jewelry Store Robbery
Nora R. Dannehy, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC ORTIZ, 36, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New ...
State budget chief: Deficit could grow
HARTFORD By SUSAN HAIGHAssociated PressGov. M. Jodi Rell's budget chief delivered a sobering message to legislators Wednesday, warning that a projected $150 million state budget deficit could seriously worsen ...
Conn. Cracks Down On Unregistered Businesses
The state has fined more than 300 out-of-state businesses for operating in Connecticut without registering their companies here, officials said Wednesday.
Reading between the Cappiello lines
The end-of-the quarter fund raising reports are in and reading between the lines of David Cappiello's report can make your head spin.
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Wed Aug 03, 2005
Connecticut's gasoline recent increase in a state petroleum tax
"We believe this has been a major error on their part," GASDA executive director Michael Fox said this week, referring to the 16 percent hike in the petroleum products gross receipts tax that the General Assembly and Gov. M. Jodi Rell included in the 2005-06 state budget.
If state government needed more revenue for the transportation fund that pays for highway and bridge maintenance, it would have been better served with the flat gasoline tax hike Rell proposed back in February, Fox added.
The governor had proposed gradually increasing the gasoline tax consumers pay at the pump from 25 cents per gallon to 31 cents, with a series of small increases between 2005 and 2014.
The increases were proposed to help fund a $1.3 billion, 10-year program to upgrade Connecticut's transportation network.
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