M. Jodi Rell News

Gov. M. Jodi Rell has given correction officials three weeks to consider recommending a prison to close - a budget-cutting option she had once hoped to avoid.

The state Department of Correction is exploring the feasibility of closing a prison after being directed by Gov.

Ken Krayeske, the free-lance journalist and political activist who was arrested in 2007 after taking pictures of Gov.

In an already tough budget year, Gov. M. Jodi Rell used her power to make $34 million in cuts from the state budget that do not need legislative approval.

Vote Baby, Vote! November 4, 2009 1:46 PM Posted to Election 2010 On the same day Ned Lamont announced that he would join a handful of other Democratic candidates in exploring a run for governor in 2010, Republican Gov.

Ned Lamont , the Greenwich businessman who defeated Joseph Lieberman in a Democratic primary in the 2006 U.S. Senate race, has formed an exploratory committee for statewide office.

New Britain Mayor Timothy Stewart has declared victory in a close race against state Rep.

While the top-of-the-ticket races for mayor and first selectman are the ones drawing attention Tuesday, democracy might be better measured by the lesser contests, for local school boards, town councils and planning and zoning commissions throughout the region.

The bad economic news is not ending. The state's chief financial overseer, Comptroller Nancy Wyman, said Monday that the state deficit for the current fiscal year is now projected at $624 million - a total that is higher than originally estimated by other agencies.

Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell is urging federal health officials to release a second round of anti-viral medications from the Strategic National Stockpile as cases of swine flu mount.

How much are you willing to risk while we turn the clocks back 30 years? A few missed court appointments? Some victim's needs going unattended? Maybe an offender going free? Forgive me, but I'm not done talking about the sorry state of our state budget.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell refused Wednesday to explain a newly released e-mail that appears to contradict her statement to reporters two weeks ago that she didn't know that UConn professor Kenneth Dautrich was helping her campaign committee with a the preparation of a poll last spring until "I read it in the paper" earlier this month.

The director of the Quinnipiac University Poll this summer gave advance results to Gov.

A photo of two Democratic legislators playing solitaire has ignited controversy at the ConnecticutA state Capitol and in the blogosphere.

So apparently these are Linda E. McMahon's qualifications to be a U.S. senator - she became very rich by promoting a debased form of entertainment, she is willing to spend a good chunk of that fortune on advertising, and she is not Chris Dodd.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell is sounding alarms after a top debt-rating agency downgraded its outlook Connecticut's ability to pay its borrowings.

The senior member of Bridgeport's legislative delegation on Tuesday asked the attorney general to investigate the procedures used by two state agencies in selecting a city site proposed for a $15-million detention and treatment center for juvenile girls.

As the season's first wave of the H1N1 flu virus apparently struck and closed schools in Middletown and Guilford Monday, Gov.

Testing the state's new M-8 rail cars will likely keep passengers from riding them until late 2010 at the earliest, state Transportation Commissioner Joseph Marie said.

Citing persistent and frustrating delays in the distribution of H1N1 and seasonal influenza vaccines, Gov.