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With the help of a federal grant, Connecticut will kick off Troops for Teachers, a program that trains veterans to become K-12 educators, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Connecticut congressional leaders announced Friday. "The men and women of our armed forces are a uniquely talented group of people with an exceptional skill set that undoubtedly can be beneficial in the classroom as they move into civilian life," Governor Malloy said.
The second hand of the clock behind Speaker of the House Joe Aresimowicz shows it's 11:50 p.m., 10 minutes before the statutory riot gate slams shut on this gold-domed bodega called the 2018 session of the legislature. Five minutes earlier, upstairs, the Senate, adjourned sine die .
The Connecticut Senate's rejection Tuesday of Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's State Supreme Court chief justice nominee, mostly along partisan lines, set off political reverberations in a state where an open governor's seat and control of the General Assembly are at stake in November. State Democrats and various candidates pounced on the 19-16 vote opposing the confirmation of Associate Justice Andrew McDonald as the high court's top justice, linking Connecticut Republicans with President Donald Trump and Washington Republicans.
Rackliffe announced his plans to city Republican leaders on Sunday, and said Democrats are to blame for the state of Connecticut's economy. "We've fallen behind and are not positioned to compete for jobs, businesses or even people," he said.
Neil Vigdor, political reporter for Hearst Connecticut Media, asks White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer about immigration policy during the daily press briefing. Vigdor was selected as part of an initiative allows reporters outside Washington, D.C., to participate via Skype.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: The Day's editorial page editor allowed Republican lawmakers 11 days to come up with a $40 billion budget response to the tax and spending plan laid out by Gov. Malloy Feb. 8. It took the Malloy's bureaucratic budget experts presumably all fall and into the winter to create a universally disliked proposal - most Democrats not living in Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport don't support it either - that shovels much of the state's looming $3.6 billion deficit onto to towns and cities and builds in concessions from state employees.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy sits down for an interview with Hala Gorani of CNN at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy sits down for an interview with Hala Gorani of CNN at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, PA on Tuesday, July 26, 2016.
The Bernie Sanders campaign is calling to remove Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy and former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank from leadership positions on Democratic committees at the national convention, arguing that their allegiance to Hillary Clinton will compromise their neutrality. In a letter to the Democratic National Committee, Brad Deutsch, counsel to the Sanders campaign, called Malloy and Frank "aggressive attack surrogates for the Clinton campaign."