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Connecticut Tax Dollars Subsidize a Film Industry That Doesn't Need the Helpnew
The state is betting a small fortune on Connecticut becoming a viable home to the film industry, offering production companies the most generous tax breaks in the country and paying film union members upwards of half a million dollars to train a hundred or so people to do film jobs they may never get.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
08-26-2008 |
Movies
Ralph Nader, Bob Barr and Cynthia McKinney Find Common Groundnew
In a rare show of third party unity, the campaigns of Nader, Libertarian Bob Barr and the Green Party's Cynthia McKinney, the last two former Congress members, are joining forces across state lines to overcome ballot access rules designed to keep minor party candidates out.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
08-19-2008 |
Politics
Does Ct.'s Insurance Plan for Middle-Class Families Threaten the Health of its Poorest Citizens?new
Dozens of independent health care advocates say the Charter Oak Health Plan -- a new health care plan aimed at healthy middle-class adults -- is threatening to destabilize the state Medicaid program that serves some of the poorest, most at-risk populations.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
07-29-2008 |
Science
Two Top Republicans Block Universal Health Care Study in Connecticutnew
We've been calling Republican leaders John McKinney and Lawrence Cafero all week to ask why they're blocking a universal health care campaign by holding up a puny amount of money that a study group needs to conduct a health care survey. To no avail.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
07-22-2008 |
Politics
News You Can Losenew
The New Haven Register lays off its Capitol reporter, sparking fears about the future of statehouse coverage.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
03-25-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Biz Leaders Want to Kill Connecticut's Business Entity Taxnew
Rethinking the tax to help struggling small businesses might make sense, but as proposed the deal is a corporate giveaway that shifts the tax burden from businesses to families, says Shelley Geballe, president of Connecticut Voices for Children.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
02-12-2008 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
Obama's Mamasnew
Why Connecticut women are forsaking Hillary for Barack.
New Haven Advocate |
Betsy Yagla and Andy Bromage |
02-05-2008 |
Politics
Backwater USAnew
Mark Colville got a stiffer punishment for simulating Blackwater USA's slaughter of innocent Iraqi civilians than the mercenaries who actually committed the crime.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
12-18-2007 |
War
Yale's New Secret Societynew
The Yale University Police Department wants all the power of a regular police force, but none of the accountability.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
12-04-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Who Says There's No Money in Journalism?new
Profit-driven news executives cash in while editors and writers do more with less.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
12-04-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
If This is Clean Elections, I'd Hate to See the Unclean Kindnew
Mayor John DeStefano is running for re-election this year under a first-of-its-kind municipal public financing model that DeStefano himself helped create, but he's gone back to the same well of city contractors, city employees and public schools workers who have been his bread and butter for the last several elections.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
10-23-2007 |
Politics
High-Profile Dems Skip Key Abortion Votenew
Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd could have undone a regressive, four-year-old Bush administration policy on family planning, had they shown up to vote.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
10-02-2007 |
Politics
Babz in Joylandnew
A New Haven politician steals $50,000 from the poor and gets 30 days in jail -- she should be thrilled.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
08-07-2007 |
Politics
You Call That a Democratic Convention?new
The biannual New Haven Democratic Party meet-up is a real lovefest.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
07-31-2007 |
Politics
New Haven's Mayor Moneybagsnew
Mayor John DeStefano may be pioneering a new way to raise campaign cash, but he's spending it the old-fashioned way.
New Haven Advocate |
Andy Bromage |
07-24-2007 |
Politics
