Category: Gov. Jodi Rell
Lawmakers: stop changing name of camp
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on March 11th, 2010
Hartford, Conn. (AP) -- Lawmakers are moving closer to stopping the tradition of renaming the Connecticut National Guard training camp with each new governor.The Public Safety Committee voted Thursday to send a bill to the Senate that would permanently n… more »
CT to host Climate Action Summit
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on March 11th, 2010
Hartford, Conn. (WTNH) -- Governor M. Jodi Rell said today that Connecticut will hold its first ever "Municipal Summit on Climate Action" this Saturday to support efforts of cities and towns to address climate change."We need local officials to assume a… more »
Fixing up homes for returning vets
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on March 10th, 2010
Rocky Hill, Conn. (AP) -- Five empty state-owned houses near the State Veterans' Home in Rocky Hill may be renovated for veterans to use temporarily when they return from the Middle East.Gov. M. Jodi Rell plans to ask the State Bond Commission next week… more »
Rell's proposals for girls center
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on March 8th, 2010
Hartford, Conn. (AP) -- Gov. M. Jodi Rell says the state will seek new proposals for a planned juvenile detention facility for girls after legislators from Bridgeport and Hamden opposed plans to site the center in their communities.The Republican governo… more »
PCBs removed from CT tech schools
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on March 7th, 2010
Hartford, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut state commission will consider spending $250,000 to replace contaminated caulking in three of the state's technical high schools.Gov. M. Jodi Rell says she expects the State Bond Commission to approve the allocation… more »
Rell: Schools raise money for Haiti
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on March 6th, 2010
Hartford, Conn. (WTNH) -- Governor Jodi Rell announced, Saturday, the statewide relief effort she started with the Connecticut Association of Schools (CAS) to address the critical needs facing the children of Haiti in the aftermath of devastating earthqu… more »
Foley distances himself from Rell
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on March 3rd, 2010
Hartford, Conn. (AP) -- Greenwich businessman Tom Foley says if he were governor he would have set more ambitious goals for reducing the state's expenses than his fellow Republican, Gov. M. Jodi Rell.Foley told reporters Wednesday that he considers Rell… more »
Lawmakers may take gamble on Keno
Posted by ConnPolitics.tv Staff on March 2nd, 2010
Hartford, Conn. (WTNH) -- The Rell administration's proposal to establish Keno games in Connecticut would generate approximately 60 million dollars per year to help balance the books and could result in hundreds of millions more by securitizing, (or borr… more »
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