Scrapping Connecticut's Public Campaign Financing Could Trigger Other Problems
New Haven Advocate |
September 15, 2009
Tags: campaign finance law, Connecticut
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The Barter Economy Chugs Along While Paying Jobs Remain Hard to Come Bynew
Welcome to the bartering economy, a system of no-money trading that experts say is booming in Connecticut and across the globe. It turns out to be one area that the Great Recession has actually helped.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
09-27-2012 |
Business & Labor
Tags: jobs
What Mowing Your Lawn Is Doing To The Planetnew
Americans reportedly dump more than 80 million pounds of pesticides and other chemicals onto their lawns and gardens every year. Aside from the potential risks for people and animals coming into direct contact with this toxic crap, pesticides get washed into streams and rivers, ending up as marine pollution.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
05-24-2011 |
Environment
Medical Marijuana Closer to Legalization in CTnew
Rhode Island and New Jersey aren’t often put in the beacons-of-light category, but Connecticut is right now looking to those two states to help illuminate the tricky pathway toward state-sanctioned growing and sale of medical marijuana.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
04-26-2011 |
Drugs
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Does Joe Lieberman Have a Chance in 2012?new
Reading the tea leaves on Joe Lieberman’s influence and future.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
11-09-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Joe Lieberman
Q&A: Connecticut’s Budget Crisisnew
The CT legislature passed a months-overdue two-year budget last August, but eight months later the state is already $500 million in debt this year.
New Haven Advocate |
Christopher Arnott |
04-13-2010 |
Politics
Tags: Jodi Rell
Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell Waddles Toward Lame-Duck-Itudenew
No matter what Gov. M. Jodi Rell tries to say or do these days, the message many people are hearing is “quack, quack, quack.” Connecticut doesn’t get any money out of a pool of federal transportation funding. “Quack.”
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
03-16-2010 |
Politics
Supreme Court Ruling Could Influence Connecticut Campaign Lawnew
The new U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning federal bans on corporate political spending is creating a firestorm of protest, and disagreements here in Connecticut about how it might impact legal challenges to this state's landmark public campaign financing program.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
01-26-2010 |
Politics
Joe Lieberman, Connecticut's Surprising Occasional Liberal in Washingtonnew
There's a Connecticut guy in Congress who's taking the lead on extending benefits to same-sex partners of 30,000 federal employees, gets a 100-percent rating from abortion rights groups and has an environmental record that's a tree-hugger's dream. He's Joe Liebrman.
New Haven Advocate |
Gregory B. Hladky |
01-05-2010 |
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