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Tax the rich? Liberals renew push for state wealth taxes

Progressive legislators are hoping the time is right to hike taxes on the rich, especially after three pandemic years

The Independent UK

A 'Red Flag' Study Raises the Question of How Often People Who Talk About Mass Shootings Actually Commit Them

The researchers identified 662 cases involving threats to multiple victims, but they concede that it's likely "there are many more threats than completed events."

Reason

Alex Jones' lawyer avoids discipline over records release

A Connecticut judge has ruled that a Texas lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones committed misconduct but will not be disciplined for violating a confidentiality order

The Independent UK

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Officials probe officer shooting of cruiser theft suspect

A Connecticut officer who opened fire on a man stealing a police cruiser, wounding him the leg minutes before he crashed the SUV into a deli, is under investigation for deadly use of force

The Independent UK

Woman stunned after finding huge black BEAR hibernating under decking in garden

Tyler Dashukewich, 28, found the black bear sleeping under the decking at the home where she lives with her four-year-old daughter in Plainville, Connecticut, US

Daily Mirror

Legal recreational marijuana sales starting in Connecticut

Connecticut’s first round of retail cannabis sales for adults 21 and older is set to begin

The Independent UK

With 2024 election on the horizon, state legislatures consider voting changes

With their eyes on the 2024 presidential election, state lawmakers around the country are preparing to reshape voting rules in what election experts expect will be another busy legislative season.

Tribune News Service

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The 11 top-rated American pizzerias

The specific pizzerias are located in Portland, Philadelphia, Connecticut, New Orleans and more!

Salon

Judge suspends Alex Jones lawyer for 6 months over disclosure of confidential Sandy Hook medical, psychiatric records

HARTFORD, Conn. — In a sharply critical decision, a Superior Court judge has suspended Infowars broadcaster Alex Jones’ lawyer Norm Pattis from practicing law for six months for the “inexcusable” disclosure of thousands of protected medical and psychiatric records obtained from relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims.

Tribune News Service

Alex Jones lawyer suspended 6 months over records release

A lawyer for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from practicing law in Connecticut for six months

The Independent UK

Connecticut Employee Speech Protection Law Might Protect Warren-Not-Indian / Jenner-Not-Woman Meme

From Mumma v. Pathway Vet Alliance, LLC, decided Wednesday by Magistrate Judge Thomas Farrish (D. Conn.); for more on the employee free speech protection statutes such as the one in this case, see this article and this one: On the evening of June 9, 2020, Ms. Mumma posted a meme…

Reason

A rising star in Connecticut politics dies in a collision with a wrong-way driver

A Connecticut state representative who was considered a rising political star was killed when a wrong-way driver crashed into his vehicle Thursday, state police said. The other driver also died.

WEKU

Connecticut state Rep. Quentin Williams killed in wrong-way crash

HARTFORD, Conn. — State Rep. Quentin “Q” Williams, 39, was killed in a crash early Thursday, according to multiple state officials.

Tribune News Service

Connecticut legislator dies in wrong-way highway crash

A Connecticut state representative was killed overnight in a wrong-way highway crash after having attended the governor’s inaugural ball hours and after having been sworn in to a third term, House Democratic leaders said Thursday

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Cops Question Connecticut Mom Who Let 7-Year-Old Walk a Mile

"She is way too young to be walking this distance by herself," said the cops.

Reason

Wealthy Connecticut Residents Received Millions in Federal Dollars After Hurricane Sandy

It shouldn't be the federal government's responsibility to protect wealthy homeowners from the inevitable.

Tribune News Service

Pedestrian fatalities at highest rate in Connecticut in over 3 decades, data says

HARTFORD, Conn. — This year has been the deadliest for pedestrians in Connecticut since the late 1980s, according to most recent Department of Transportation data.

The Independent UK

Alex Jones' motion to set aside Sandy Hook verdict denied

A Connecticut judge has denied Infowars host Alex Jones’ motion seeking a new trial and the overturning of a jury verdict requiring him to pay families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings

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Judge rejects Alex Jones’ post trial arguments; $1.4 billion CT Sandy Hook verdict stands

HARTFORD, Conn. — In a short and pointed ruling, the judge who presided over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Connecticut Sandy Hook defamation trial on Thursday rejected his arguments that the jury’s $1.4 billion damages award should be reduced and a new trial ordered.

Reason

FIRE's and My Amicus Brief on Connecticut's "Racial Ridicule" Law

FIRE has the details, though you can also read the full brief (written by FIRE's Adam Steinbaugh and me, with many thanks to our excellent local counsel Zachary Phillipps of Wofsey Rosen Kewskin & Kuriansky, LLP). I've been writing about this law since 2010, so I'm especially pleased to have…

Tribune News Service

Appeals court upholds CIAC’s transgender policy

HARTFORD, Conn. — The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City upheld the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s transgender policy Friday after attorneys for cisgender girls who filed a lawsuit appealed to the court to change the records and results of track races in which the transgender female…

Tribune News Service

Baltimore archbishop battled against release of abuse documents for nearly 8 years: ‘I fought the good fight’

BALTIMORE — As bishop of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the Most Rev. William E. Lori fought for nearly eight years — all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court — to prevent the wide release of information about the history of child sexual abuse in that branch of the Catholic Church.

Chicago Sun-Times

Passing assault weapons bill is a matter of life and death

I don’t ever want to hear another politician offer “thoughts and prayers” after a mass shooting. I don’t ever again want to look into the eyes of parents of dead first- and second graders, as I did in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. I don’t ever want to attend another funeral…

The Guardian - US

Joe Biden says US should have ‘societal guilt’ 10 years after Sandy Hook

President commemorates 2012 shooting, in which 20 children and six adults were killed in Newtown, Connecticut

Tribune News Service

Connecticut’s governor delivered the news to 26 Sandy Hook families 10 years ago. It changed the national conversation around school violence and gun reform

HARTFORD, Conn. — On Dec. 14, 2012, 26 families huddled inside a firehouse in Newtown, holding onto their last fragments of hope that quickly drained from the cold, crowded space.

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