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Stowe Prize Honors Michelle Alexander
The Hartford CourantStowe Prize Events The Stowe Prize Big Tent Jubilee will take place Thursday, May 30, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center grounds, 77 Forest St., Hartford. It will honor the 2013 Stowe Prize winner, civil rights advocate and law...Tags: William Shakespeare, Entertainment Events, Journalism, Culture, ABC (tv network)
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Supreme Court Scrutinizes Inmate's Challenge To Provision In Death Penalty Repeal
The Hartford CourantIn highly anticipated arguments Tuesday before the Connecticut Supreme Court, a convicted killer's lawyer offered what he called a simple solution to settling the controversy over a death penalty repeal that excluded inmates already on death row. "You...Tags: Lawyers, Punishment, Judges, Cheshire, Crime, Law and Justice
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A Little-Known Connecticut Group Works to Oppose Gun-Control Legislation
One of the odd coincidences of the Newtown tragedy is that the headquarters of one of the biggest anti-gun-control groups in the nation stands less than two miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School — almost close enough to hear the gunfire. It's...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Assault, Interior Policy, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Lobbying
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Controversial Right-Wing Blogger Sues Connecticut State Officials
Right-wing blogger, radio talk jock, and occasional paid informant for the FBI Harold “Hal” Turner has been having a hell of a time. He claims he’s been unfairly jailed by the feds, “railroaded” by a corrupt Connecticut legal...
Tags: Punishment, East Haven, Crime, Law and Justice, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Prisons
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Should Civilians Be Allowed to Carry Tasers?
It's legal in Connecticut to carry a killer handgun powerful enough, in the immortal words of Dirty Harry, "to blow yer head clean off." What you can't have on your person or in your car as a private citizen in this state is a (theoretically) non-lethal...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Middletown, Interior Policy, Law Enforcement, Crime, Law and Justice
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The Racial-Profiling Scandal In East Haven Is Unresolved, While Officials Try to Install Reforms
Suppose Connecticut had a centralized system where all cops who made traffic stops had to send electronic reports on who they pulled over, the race of the person, the reason for the action and the outcome. The reports could be checked against stuff like...
Tags: Computer Crime, East Haven, Branford, Government, Social Issues
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A Legislative Study Finds Buying Bullets Online is Easier Than Many Expect
Buy, sell or give away .50 caliber armor-piercing bullets in Connecticut and you could spend a year in state prison. But using the Internet to pick up a few thousand rounds of 9 mm ammo for your Glock, no problem dude. "Neither state nor federal law...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Mitt Romney, Crime, Law and Justice, Martin M Looney
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Very Cheap Labor: Lucky CT Inmates Can Earn Up to $1.75 a Day
Once in a while, the state of Connecticut knows a good deal when it sees it. Take the miniscule money it’s paying prison inmates to help clean up litter on the side of state highways. Those dudes are getting $1.75 a day each. The state Department...
Tags: Dannel P. Malloy , William R Dyson, Companies and Corporations, Prisons, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Budding Business: Medical marijuana will mean major money for Connecticut
Medical marijuana looks to be coming soon to Connecticut, and when it does it's going to be big business. We're talking tens of millions of dollars, covering everything from direct medical pot sales to hydroponic equipment and grow lights; from...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Government, Diseases and Illnesses, Glaucoma, Drug Trafficking
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Rep. Holder-Winfield: Longtime Champion Of Death Penalty Repeal
The Hartford CourantState Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield is so closely associated with the drive to repeal Connecticut's death penalty that he says someone once asked him, "Do you work on anything else?" In fact, the two-term Democrat from New Haven noted that he has been...Tags: Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, Death Penalty, YouTube
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Chief Of Staff, Communications Director Leave Malloy Administration
In a blow to the administration, Governor Dannel Malloy's trusted chief of staff, his deputy chief, and communications director are all leaving. Timothy F. Bannon, a workhorse who has held numerous positions in state government and the private sector,...Tags: Parties and Movements, Regional Authority, Government, Denise Nappier, U.S. Senate
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Blogger claims First Amendment protects his right to urge violence
“I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Abrams v US 1919.
“These beastly government...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Social Issues, Prisons, Abortion, Laws
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