After reviewing details from the Newtown shooting investigation,
legislative leaders from both parties plan to meet in private with
rank-and-file lawmakers Monday to discuss negotiated gun control
legislation. A vote on a bill is expected as early as Wednesday.
Legislative leaders have been working for weeks to negotiate a
bipartisan bill in response to the shooting and have requested as much
information as possible to inform their legislation.
The Senate President, Democrat Donald Williams, said the sheer number of weapons found in the gunman’s household confirms lawmakers have been “on the right track” as they’ve negotiated what is expected to be a historic package of gun control measures.
Senate Minority Leader, Republican John McKinney said that the warrants confirmed what lawmakers already knew: the shooter was a troubled person who had access to firepower and ammunition.
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A coalition of Connecticut labor, faith, environmental and business groups held a press conference at the Capitol Thursday to call for upholding the state’s renewable energy portfolio while creating jobs. WPKN’s Melinda Tuhus has more.
Speakers said Senate Bill 1138 would roll back part of Connecticut’s renewable energy requirement of 20 percent renewables by 2020 by carving out up to 4.5 percent of that for big hydropower from Canada. That form of energy has not been considered a Class I renewable. Chris Phelps with Environment Connecticut said that move would create jobs in Canada.
These groups also object to what they say is the speed with which the legislation is being pushed through, since the legislature is moving toward a vote even though the public comment period on the bill ends May 13.
Opponents of the hydro component say they support another piece of the bill, which would create long-term contracts for wind energy.
Melinda Tuhus, WPKN News.
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Thursday, Governor Dannel Malloy named former state Senator Edith Prague as the commissioner of the new State Department on Aging. Ms. Prague is 87.
She returns to state government after stints as a state representative and state senator, and a tumultuous and ultimately unhappy tenure as the commissioner of aging under Governor Lowell Weicker Jr.
Weicker eventually eliminated the department, folding its functions into the Department of Social Services, earning him the everlasting
The Governor said the rationale for a stand-alone department was simple: Connecticut is aging. By 2030, more than 21 percent of the state’s population is expected to be of retirement age.
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Newsday reports the Feds are investigating the Southampton Town Police Department,
A source close to the case says the U.S. attorney’s office got involved this month after it received documents about a number of alleged problems in the department.
Newsday obtained documents earlier this month that alleged the Street Crime unit had unsecured baggies of crack, methamphetamine and prescription painkillers in its office
Police Chief Robert Pearce says that evidence from the department’s disbanded Street Crime Unit that had gone missing has now resurfaced.
Newsday also reported that documents provided to the U.S. attorney’s office included felony and misdemeanor charges that former Police Chief William Wilson had prepared against the former commander of the Street Crimes Unit, Lieutenant. James Kiernan.
The charges allege that Kiernan changed time sheets indicating days he worked.
But Kiernan’s attorney, Raymond Perini, told Patch, “There was no substance to the allegation. It was totally investigated and there was no wrongdoing found”
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Brookhaven Town supervisor Ed Romaine says the town is stepping up enforcement against unscrupulous landlords who rent single rooms in a single-family house. This comes in response to a housing problem in the Stony Brook area, where investors purchase houses and illegally rent to University students. Seven or more tenants are living in a single family home.
The Town is proposing to increase fines levied against residents who purposefully violate town housing codes.to as much at $10,000, and reducing the length of rental permits from two years to one.
The town board is expected to vote on these amendments at its April 2 meeting.
The Senate President, Democrat Donald Williams, said the sheer number of weapons found in the gunman’s household confirms lawmakers have been “on the right track” as they’ve negotiated what is expected to be a historic package of gun control measures.
Senate Minority Leader, Republican John McKinney said that the warrants confirmed what lawmakers already knew: the shooter was a troubled person who had access to firepower and ammunition.
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A coalition of Connecticut labor, faith, environmental and business groups held a press conference at the Capitol Thursday to call for upholding the state’s renewable energy portfolio while creating jobs. WPKN’s Melinda Tuhus has more.
Speakers said Senate Bill 1138 would roll back part of Connecticut’s renewable energy requirement of 20 percent renewables by 2020 by carving out up to 4.5 percent of that for big hydropower from Canada. That form of energy has not been considered a Class I renewable. Chris Phelps with Environment Connecticut said that move would create jobs in Canada.
These groups also object to what they say is the speed with which the legislation is being pushed through, since the legislature is moving toward a vote even though the public comment period on the bill ends May 13.
Opponents of the hydro component say they support another piece of the bill, which would create long-term contracts for wind energy.
Melinda Tuhus, WPKN News.
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Thursday, Governor Dannel Malloy named former state Senator Edith Prague as the commissioner of the new State Department on Aging. Ms. Prague is 87.
She returns to state government after stints as a state representative and state senator, and a tumultuous and ultimately unhappy tenure as the commissioner of aging under Governor Lowell Weicker Jr.
Weicker eventually eliminated the department, folding its functions into the Department of Social Services, earning him the everlasting
The Governor said the rationale for a stand-alone department was simple: Connecticut is aging. By 2030, more than 21 percent of the state’s population is expected to be of retirement age.
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Newsday reports the Feds are investigating the Southampton Town Police Department,
A source close to the case says the U.S. attorney’s office got involved this month after it received documents about a number of alleged problems in the department.
Newsday obtained documents earlier this month that alleged the Street Crime unit had unsecured baggies of crack, methamphetamine and prescription painkillers in its office
Police Chief Robert Pearce says that evidence from the department’s disbanded Street Crime Unit that had gone missing has now resurfaced.
Newsday also reported that documents provided to the U.S. attorney’s office included felony and misdemeanor charges that former Police Chief William Wilson had prepared against the former commander of the Street Crimes Unit, Lieutenant. James Kiernan.
The charges allege that Kiernan changed time sheets indicating days he worked.
But Kiernan’s attorney, Raymond Perini, told Patch, “There was no substance to the allegation. It was totally investigated and there was no wrongdoing found”
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Brookhaven Town supervisor Ed Romaine says the town is stepping up enforcement against unscrupulous landlords who rent single rooms in a single-family house. This comes in response to a housing problem in the Stony Brook area, where investors purchase houses and illegally rent to University students. Seven or more tenants are living in a single family home.
The Town is proposing to increase fines levied against residents who purposefully violate town housing codes.to as much at $10,000, and reducing the length of rental permits from two years to one.
The town board is expected to vote on these amendments at its April 2 meeting.
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