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Proposed Heating Oil Tax Going Nowhere
By Eileen McNamara A proposal to tax home heating oil in Connecticut has fizzled out. The legislature's Commerce Committee has killed House Bill 6650, which would have taxed for the first time ever...
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Fed Investigating How Legislature Earmarked $15M for Community Health Center
The federal bureau of investigation probe into the Community Health Center is focused on determining how exactly the non-profit founded in 1972 here in Middletown wholly secured $15 million in state...
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Reader: White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for...
To the Editor: The federal budget is a mess and President Obama has created anotherhigh-paid, do-nothing job for a political supporter. Mr. David Johns wasappointed as the executive director of the...
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Reports: Meteor Spotted Over DC, New York, New England
By John Davisson Twitter was abuzz Friday night with reports of a large, bright meteor streaking across the night sky over the Eastern Seaboard. Several readers told NBC4 that they spotted the meteor...
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Regional Police Roundup: BJ's Worker All Fired Up After Losing Job
Fired Worker Leaves Quite a Last Impression The case: Cops charged a Manchester man with third-degree assault, second-degree threatening, first-degree criminal trespass and second-degree breach of...
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Did You See The 2013 Northeast Fireball?
By Pem McNerney, Gary Jeanfaivre, and John Davisson The American Meteor Society received more than 500 reports of people seeing a bright meteor around 8 p.m. Friday, all along the Atlantic coast from...
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CCM to Malloy: Send Your Car Tax Plan to the Scrap Heap
Eileen McNamara Municipal leaders converged on the state capitol Wednesday to protest Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plan to eliminate town car taxes, a proposal leaders of cities and small towns alike have...
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Scam Alert: Did the 'FBI' Call And Threaten Legal Action?
By Jessie Sawyer As daunting as it may be to get a call from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, try not to be intimidated. The phone calls could be part of a new scam surfacing in the state that...
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At Ski Sundown, No One Sits the Bench When it Comes to the Park
By Chris Dehnel Passes? We don't need to show you no stinking passes. We can just ride the terrain parks at Ski Sundown. All day. Don't get me wrong, the snow sports area in New Hartford is strict...
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Swamp Yankees Live Among Us
By Mary Athey If you’re looking for a definition for the term Swamp Yankee, you can take your pick of several different meanings. If you are new to the area, you probably have no idea what it is....
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Congress to Post Office: You Can't Cancel Saturday Deliveries
Though recent polls indicate the American people supported the U.S. Postal Service's recent decision to eliminate Saturday deliveries in an effort to save $2 billion in operating costs each year,...
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Connecticut Black Bears in Crosshairs Again
Eileen McNamara State officials are once again taking up the issue of a legalized black bear hunt in Connecticut. The General Assembly’s Environment Committee is holding a public hearing this morning,...
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Urban Archeologist: 600 Girls in the Cali Desert
Was I meant to find these things or is it that any object older than me just captures my interest? After writing this weekly column for over a year (click here for proof), I know that I can write...
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How to Make Crosses from Palm Sunday Reeds
By David Gurliacci Christians may not get any closer to heaven by folding the palm reeds given out in the churches of some denominations this Palm Sunday, but many will create for themselves a symbol...
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Your Take: Should Connecticut Enact A 'Right To Die' Law?
The so-called 'right to die' issue has always been an emotional one. But over the years some states have enacted legislation allowing physician-assisted death for the terminally ill. In 2013, eight...
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Are More Female Teachers Having Sex with Their Teenage Students?
When the former special education teacher accused of a sexual relationship with one of her teen students in 2012 accepted a plea deal earlier this month, she became part of a larger narrative about...
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NCAA March Madness 2013: Updated Final Scores, Printable Bracket,...
By Todd Richissin The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament continues today, and the March Madness has truly been mad. The weekend was a rough one for area teams, with Georgetown getting dumped Friday in...
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