GOP loses control in Congress
Sunday, November 13, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Call it a midgetority. Republicans, who remain in the majority on Capitol Hill, are no longer in control.
President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert have squandered whatever political capital they gained from the 2004 elections.
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'Under God' backers, protesters pledge to fight on
Sunday, November 6, 2005 CHARLES WALSH - - Connecticut Post
| Two words brought 200 people to a Knights of Columbus hall in Milford on Saturday. The words, "under God," as contained in the Pledge of Allegiance, attracted flag wavers and protesters to a rally outside the Bridgeport Avenue building. Those in favor in keeping "under God" in the pledge said it was more than a battle over words.
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Waiting for Congress, state ups winter heating help
Tuesday, November 1, 2005 ROB VARNON - - Connecticut Post
| The governor signed "An Act Concerning Heating Assistance" into law last week.
Pat Wrice, executive director of the nonprofit heating assistance organization Operation Fuel, said Monday she was glad the state has decided to do more this winter, especially because attempts to increase funding for programs have failed in Washington.
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Housing funds get gag order
Sunday, October 30, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| What was the biggest crime exposed on Capitol Hill last week? No, it was not the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. How about a brazen attempt by conservative Republicans to suppress minority voting?
House Democrats hurled that charge last week against their Republican colleagues during debate on a new funding source for affordable housing.
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Sub base awash in relief
Thursday, August 25, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Connecticut on Wednesday evaded a Pentagon plan to sink the Groton submarine base, saving an estimated 16,000 military and private jobs in the state.
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Conn. Challenges No Child Left Behind Law
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
AP's NOREEN GILLESPIE - - Connecticut Post
| Connecticut on Monday became the first state to challenge the No Child Left Behind law in court, arguing that the centerpiece of President Bush's education law amounts to an unfunded mandate from the federal government.
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Sikorsky winner in House vote
Tuesday, June 21, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| The House overwhelmingly approved a $408 billion defense budget for the next fiscal year that includes nearly $1.5 billion for 83 Sikorsky helicopters, four more than President Bush requested in February.
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Students losing freedoms
Sunday, May 29, 2005 MATTHEW HIGBEE - - Connecticut Post
| A junior high school in northern California pins radio identification tags on its students. New Jersey high school students must hand over a urine sample before trying out for band or earning parking privileges.
While not as intrusive as other states, schools in Connecticut are part of the trend to use ever more aggressive techniques to keep track of where students are, what they bring to school and what they put in their bodies.
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Rell pushes for college aid to adopted kids
Thursday, May 26, 2005 KEN DIXON - - Connecticut Post
| Children in Connecticut foster homes are choosing between their families or their futures, Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Wednesday, asking lawmakers to expand a college tuition program to include adoptees.
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Ross spurns flood of appeals
Thursday, May 12, 2005 LINDA PINTO - - Connecticut Post
| As Connecticut lurched toward New England's first execution in 45 years, lawyers from Bridgeport and Orange filed a lawsuit Wednesday for an inmate who claimed that putting Michael Ross to death would touch off a rash of suicides among troubled prisoners.
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Government working to keep up with Web
Monday, April 18, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| A growing number of Americans — at least a million a day — are turning on their computers to tap into government resources, typically, using sites like Google and Yahoo to search for a particular subject.
Federal and state governments are also investing heavily in user-friendly Web portals to make it easier for citizens to access government agencies and services.
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Educators meet, but can't agree
Tuesday, April 19, 2005 PETER URBAN and LINDA CONNER LAMBECK - - Connecticut Post
| An hour-long meeting that was by all accounts "cordial" did little to smooth the underlying beef between Connecticut Commissioner of Education Betty J. Sternberg and U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Monday.
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Ed chief defends state's record
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 LINDA CONNER LAMBECK - - Connecticut Post
| Connecticut Commissioner of Education Betty J. Sternberg is trying to set the record straight.
In a two-page letter released Tuesday, she tells U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings that Connecticut does not take the attitude that African-American children can't compete.
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Civil union bill revised
Thursday, April 14, 2005 KEN DIXON and LIZ WHITE - - Connecticut Post
| The House of Representatives voted late Wednesday to expand rights for gay and lesbian couples — but not before adopting a controversial amendment that limits marriage to unions between a man and a woman.
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Shays: DeLay on thinnest ice
Sunday, April 10, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| In an effort to parry likely Democratic attacks, U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, R-4, has started to distance himself from embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
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State may sue feds over 'No Child' law
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 LINDA CONNER LAMBECK - - Connecticut Post
| Connecticut could become the first state to sue the federal government over its No Child Left Behind Act.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday announced the imminent legal action against the U.S. Department of Education, encouraging other states to join him.
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Senate OK likely for civil union bill
Wednesday, April 6, 2005 KEN DIXON - - Connecticut Post
| Despite a last-minute try by Republicans to delay action, the state Senate today is expected to approve a civil union bill that would expand rights for same-sex couples.
The bill falls short of allowing gay marriage, but is sure to provoke opponents.
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Aviation system still vulnerable
Tuesday, March 15, 2005 CHARLES WALSH - - Connecticut Post
| Operations managers at four regional Connecticut airports don't want to talk about a new government report that raises concerns about security at smaller general aviation airports.
Speaking privately, however, some pilots say security can be less than airtight.
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Sikorsky may test closed Europe market
Monday, February 28, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Sikorsky Aircraft of Stratford, stinging from the loss of the prestigious Marine One contract, may challenge AgustaWestland on its own turf, seeking to bust open the highly insular European military helicopter market, according to reports in the British media.
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ID theft scam raises calls for credit industry reform
Monday, February 28, 2005 ROB VARNON - - Connecticut Post
| Peg Barrett, 73, can't believe the nation's credit system hinges on companies like ChoicePoint Inc., which will be informing 5,952 Connecticut residents that it sold sensitive information to a ring of identity thieves this month.
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Bush Social Security plan raises hackles at forum
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 MATTHEW HIGBEE - - Connecticut Post
| President Bush's plan for creating private retirement accounts would fatally undermine an insurance program that guarantees lifetime benefits for millions of Americans, according to a panel headed by Rep. Rosa DeLauro.
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Amtrak cuts has them railing
Sunday, February 20, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Connecticut's two senators railed last week against President Bush's plan to eliminate federal funding for Amtrak.
Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman have met with Amtrak President and Chief Executive Officer David Gunn to discuss the issue and also recently joined a letter with 36 colleagues to protest the cut.
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Whistleblower Warns of More Vioxx Risks
Thursday, February 17, 2005
AP's RANDOLPH E. SCHMID - - Connecticut Post
| Use of the painkiller Vioxx poses the risk of hundreds to thousands of additional heart attacks in older men, a Food and Drug Administration whistleblower told a panel reviewing the safety of painkillers on Thursday.
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Top cops have a history
Thursday, February 17, 2005 DANIEL TEPFER - - Connecticut Post
| The top two officers in the city's Police Department — appointed to their jobs last month by Mayor John M. Fabrizi — share not only long careers with the department but a stormy personal past checkered by domestic violence.
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9-11 families outraged by FAA report
Saturday, February 12, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Word that the Federal Aviation Administration received dozens of warnings before Sept. 11, 2001, that al-Qaida wanted to hit airlines infuriated family members of those killed in the attacks.
The previously undisclosed report by the 9-11 commission detailed 52 such warnings given to FAA leaders between April and Sept. 10, 2001, about the radical Islamic terrorist group and its leader, Osama bin Laden.
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Defense still shops Sikorsky
Tuesday, February 8, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| The president's $419 billion defense budget includes money to buy 79 Black Hawk helicopter variants over the next fiscal year, an increase of 20 over the current year's order.
The defense funds, included in Bush's proposed $2.57 trillion budget announced Monday, was welcome news at Sikorsky Aircraft in Stratford, Conn., which recently lost a bid to build the next fleet of presidential helicopters that is worth an estimated $6.1 billion.
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No challenge on pact loss by Sikorsky
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Sikorsky Aircraft won't challenge the Navy's decision to award a rich presidential helicopter contract to a competitor with a European-designed chopper, company officials said Tuesday.
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Copter rationale promised by Navy
Thursday, February 3, 2005 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Navy officials will sit down next Wednesday with Connecticut's congressional delegation to explain why the president won't be flying in an American-made Sikorsky helicopter in 2009.
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'No Child' law leaves area schools behind
Thursday, January 27, 2005 LINDA CONNER LAMBECK - - Connecticut Post
| Simply getting more students to take a test helped slice in half the list of Connecticut school districts failing to meet the demands of the federal No Child Left Behind law.
However, 43 districts were still on the list released Wednesday, and several were included despite the fact they had no individual schools failing to make adequate yearly progress.
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Tainted stem cells push debate for new research
Wednesday, January 26, 2005 MARIAN GAIL BROWN - - Connecticut Post
| Lawrence Miller attributes his being alive today to the stem cell transplant he received in 1998, when he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a type of cancer. The stem cells were adult ones and were drawn from his body before he began his chemotherapy regimen.
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Graduates must read
Thursday, January 13, 2005 GREG SHULAS - - Connecticut Post
| The Board of Education signed off Tuesday on a much-heralded plan to make reading the next graduation requirement for the city's high school students, designating the Class of 2009 the first to be subject to the new rules.
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Nativity scene nixed
Thursday, December 16, 2004 FRANK JULIANO - - Connecticut Post
| Milford officials said Wednesday that a Nativity scene won't be set up in the Parsons Government Center, ending a holiday tradition stretching back many years.
The decision follows last year's protest to the media of the Parsons display by an atheists' group that has returned this year with another complaint about a different public Christmas display in Milford.
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9-11 women win push for reform
Sunday, December 12, 2004 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| In his second-floor office in the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, House Speaker Dennis Hastert mostly listens as Mary Fetchet of New Canaan, Conn., thanks him on behalf of her dead son, Bradley, and other victims of Sept. 11.
"We appreciate you were willing to work with us," says Fetchet, shaking the Republican leader's large hand.
She is expressing her gratitude for Hastert's role in rounding up support for intelligence reforms designed to plug gaps in the system that contributed to the 9-11 attacks.
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Reforms passed for intelligence
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| In its last act before adjourning for the year, the House Tuesday approved sweeping intelligence reforms recommended in July by the commission that investigated the 9-11 attacks.
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Scientists Reverse Paralysis in Dogs
Saturday, December 4, 2004
AP's RICK CALLAHAN - - Connecticut Post
| Dogs with paralyzed hind legs regained the ability to walk after getting a shot of a chemical cousin of antifreeze that helped repair nerve cells in their damaged spinal cords, scientists reported.
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Women's groups ready to fight
Monday, November 29, 2004 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Conservative Christians, who claim to have been the decisive edge in President Bush's 2004 election victory, have begun to flex their political muscle — much to the chagrin of abortion rights advocates.
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Lieberman wants 4th term
Sunday, November 28, 2004 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., announced last week he plans to seek a fourth term in the Senate in 2006. And this time, he will actually campaign.
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Indians still aren't all that thankful
Friday, November 26, 2004 EDWARD J. CROWDER - - Connecticut Post
| Some time in the fall of 1621, the settlers at Plymouth, Mass., held a feast to thank God they'd survived their harrowing first year in the New World.
They invited neighboring Indians, who had taught them agricultural skills critical to their survival. Together they celebrated their good fortune with a three-day feast of fowl, venison, corn, beans and other local staples.
At least, that's the official Thanksgiving story.
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Griffin-Yale center to test fruit, veggie pills
Sunday, November 21, 2004 ANTHONY SPINELLI - - Connecticut Post
| Not everyone can honestly say they eat the minimum of the five recommended servings of fruits and vegetables a day, particularly those on low-carbohydrate diets.
That's part of the reason why a fruit and vegetable pill is so attractive. In pill form, the advertisements say, a person can get the concentrated goodness of all those fruits and veggies without so much as slicing a carrot or peeling a grapefruit.
But do these pills really work?
That's the question a manufacturer of supplement pills, the NSA Corp. of Tennessee, is paying $200,000 to the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center to find out.
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'A sweet soul with the courage of a tiger'
Thursday, November 18, 2004 GENEVIEVE REILLY - - Connecticut Post
| Marine Cpl. Kevin "Jack" Dempsey bears the name of a famous prizefighter and world heavyweight champion, and his family says he lived up to that moniker.
The 23-year-old Dempsey was killed Saturday in an explosion in Iraq's Al Anbar Province while on a reconnaissance foot patrol.
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Suicide Bomber, Clashes in Iraq Kill 27
Thursday, November 18, 2004
AP's TINI TRAN - - Connecticut Post
| A suicide car bomber blasted an American convoy north of Baghdad and U.S. troops battled insurgents west of the capital Wednesday as a wave of violence across Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland killed at least 27 people.
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SOCIAL INSECURITY
Sunday, November 14, 2004 EDWARD J. CROWDER - - Connecticut Post
| Bridgeport resident Dwayne Ayer would rather have a bird in the hand than one in the bush when it comes to his future Social Security benefits.
The 21-year-old is counting on Social Security to be around when he hits retirement age in 2050
eight years after the government predicts the program will no longer be able to fully pay the promised benefits.
But he distrusts a proposal President Bush believes could help shore up the program: letting workers set up private accounts where they can sock away part of their Social Security contributions.
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WHO: Flu Vaccine Available Within Year
Saturday, November 13, 2004
AP's Emma Ross - - Connecticut Post
| With the right coordination, international commitment and about $13 million, scientists could deliver within a year a candidate vaccine to combat global flu outbreaks, the World Health Organization said Friday.
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Baseball GMs Split on Instant Replay
Friday, November 12, 2004
AP's BEN WALKER - - Connecticut Post
| Upon further review, baseball will hold off on taking a look at instant replay. After watching umpires reverse almost every missed call in the postseason, major league general managers split 15-15 Thursday on whether to keep exploring the subject.
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AP Poll: Stable Iraq Tops Voter Priorities
Sunday, November 7, 2004
AP's Will Lester - - Connecticut Post
| As President Bush mulls what to do after winning re-election, voters say his first priority should be resolving the situation in Iraq, where the fighting is growing more intense. They also want Bush to cut the deficit, which ballooned under his watch, rather than pushing for more tax cuts, according to an Associated Press poll taken right after the election.
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Election results met with surprise
Thursday, November 4, 2004 MARIAN GAIL BROWN and PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Some celebrated and others shuddered at news of President Bush’s re-election.
But there was more of the latter Wednesday in Connecticut, where Democrats predominate and which backed Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in Tuesday’s election.
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Stocks Surge As President Bush Wins
Wednesday, November 3, 2004
AP's MEG RICHARDS - - Connecticut Post
| Stocks surged Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrials posting impressive gains as investors shrugged off higher oil prices and expressed post-election relief after Sen. John Kerry's concession to President Bush.
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DeLauro easily sails into 8th term
Wednesday, November 3, 2004 GREG SHULAS - - Connecticut Post
| Democrat Rosa DeLauro comfortably sailed to an eighth-term in the U.S. House of Representatives Tues-day, winning in a landslide over her Republican and Green Party opponents.
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Electoral College could be due for overhaul
Monday, November 1, 2004 MARIAN GAIL BROWN - - Connecticut Post
| Each state automatically gets two electoral votes, plus additional ones based on how many congressional districts they have. Connecticut gets seven electoral votes.
"We are the world's greatest democracy, and yet when we inspire a Third World country to adopt our principles of democracy, the one thing they never, ever choose is our Electoral College system," says John Orman, a Fairfield University politics professor and author of several books about the modern American presidency. "Why don't they want it? Because it's crazy."
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Callers struggle with not-so-hot flu line on vaccine status
Friday, October 29, 2004 KEN DIXON - - Connecticut Post
| Did a virus of the electronic variety hit a new hot line that's supposed to inform Connecticut residents about the availability of precious influenza vaccine?
The state Department of Public Health has apparently understaffed the toll-free number for information on Connecticut's small supply of influenza vaccine, Gov. M. Jodi Rell's office conceded Thursday.
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Fate of Missing Iraq Weapons Unresolved
Saturday, October 30, 2004
AP's JOHN J. LUMPKIN - - Connecticut Post
| The fate of up to 377 tons of high-grade explosives missing from an Iraqi depot remained unresolved a week after it became a hot issue in the presidential election. The Pentagon offered piecemeal information about operations at the base but was unable to say where the weapons went.
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State offers help for flu info
Thursday, October 28, 2004 KEN DIXON - - Connecticut Post
| Gov. M. Jodi Rell on Wednesday ordered the state Department of Public Health to create a voluntary plan to redistribute flu vaccine in the state to those needing it most.
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Both Parties Try to Attract Early Voters
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
AP's NANCY BENAC - - Connecticut Post
| Early voters are casting ballots at a runaway pace in Arizona's biggest county. They've exhausted absentee ballots in some towns in Maine. They're far outpacing 2000 in Florida hot spots.
With 32 states now offering some form of early voting, an AP/Ipsos poll taken last weekend found 11 percent of voters across the United States already had cast ballots, and another 11 percent intended to beat the Election-Day rush as well.
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9-11 reforms remain stuck
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Despite pleas from families of 9-11 victims to get the job done before Election Day, Congress almost certainly will not approve a massive reform of the nation's intelligence system by Tuesday.
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Sharon: Gaza Plan Only Way to Security
Monday, October 25, 2004
AP's Ravi Nessman - - Connecticut Post
| Prime Minister Ariel Sharon opened a stormy debate in parliament Monday with a passionate appeal to lawmakers to support his Gaza withdrawal plan - which has divided the country and weakened his government - as the only way to secure Israel's future.
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Simpson Dad Blames Acid Reflux for Gaffe
Monday, October 25, 2004
AP's DAVID BAUDER - - Connecticut Post
| If Ashlee Simpson's stomach was upset Saturday night, imagine how she's feeling now. The 19-year-old singer was busted for a "Saturday Night Live" lip-synch gone awry. Her manager-father said Monday his daughter used the extra help because acid reflux disease had made her voice hoarse.
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Iraq remains top priority for most
Monday, October 25, 2004 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Forget the economy, the environment and education. When it comes to issues this campaign season, the Iraq war trumps all others in the battles for the White House and Congress.
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Electronic courtrooms get unanimous verdict
Monday, October 25, 2004 MICHAEL P. MAYKO - - Connecticut Post
| Documents, photographs and video recordings will be projected onto two large flat-screen monitors facing the public.
Smaller monitors will rest between every other seat in the jury box.
Federal judges will control what the public and the jury sees with just a touch on their computer screen.
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Bin Laden threat serious
Thursday, October 21, 2004 RITA LAZZARONI - - Connecticut Post
| The long-term threat posed Osama bin Laden to America's open society is much more profound and much more serious than the nuclear threat from the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
This was the chilling assessment of terrorism dangers that Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Thomas L. Friedman's delivered to an audience of 750 people Wednesday night at Fairfield University's Quick Center.
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State finds no way to speed flu vaccine
Friday, October 22, 2004 KEN DIXON - - Connecticut Post
| Lawmakers learned Wednesday that just because they have good intentions doesn't mean they have a grip on the problems developing over the distribution of Connecticut's limited supply of influenza vaccine.
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AP Poll: Bush, Kerry Tied in Popular Vote
Friday, October 22, 2004
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Connecticut Post
| President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are locked in a tie for the popular vote, according to an Associated Press poll, while a chunk of voters vacillate between their desire for change and their doubts about the alternative.
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Lawmakers cut flu-shot line
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| While flu shots are so scarce that some elderly people have waited on line overnight to get vaccinated, members of Congress
and even some prison inmates
have access to the scarce doses.
Meanwhile, federal officials scrambled Tuesday to assure the public more flu shots were on the way by early next year.
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DeLauro wants inquiry into flu shot shortage
Monday, October 18, 2004 DANIEL TEPFER - - Connecticut Post
| U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3, and her Republican challenger, Richter Elser, clashed Sunday on cures for the flu vaccine shortage, the war in Iraq and taxes during a breakfast forum at Congregation Mishkan Israel.
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Intelligence reform stall upsets 9-11 families
Friday, October 15, 2004 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Two Connecticut women who lost family members in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks expressed dismay Thursday after the White House opened a door for Congress to delay action on recommended changes to the U.S. intelligence community.
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Court Halts Sale of September 11 Coins
Thursday, October 14, 2004
AP's MICHAEL GORMLEY - - Connecticut Post
| New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer obtained a court order Wednesday to temporarily suspend the sale of commemorative Sept. 11 coins advertised as being minted from silver recovered at ground zero.
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Young partisans see solid Bush triumph
Thursday, October 14, 2004 KEN DIXON - - Connecticut Post
| There was a lot riding on the third and final presidential debate Wednesday night and two college Republicans, Emily McAdam and Richard Karczewski, were well aware of it.
They wanted President Bush to build on the gains they say he made in the second debate. They wanted Bush to recapture the lead from Democrat John Kerry that somehow disappeared during the first days of October.
The two Fairfield University students, admittedly partisan, were focused on the prize, cognizant of the stakes and happily committed.
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Kerry and Bush Face Off Over Deficit, War
Saturday, October 9, 2004
AP's NEDRA PICKLER - - Connecticut Post
| In a testy debate rematch Friday, Sen. John Kerry derided President Bush as the first leader to preside over job losses in 72 years and said he had transformed huge budget surpluses into massive deficits with wartime tax cuts for the rich. Bush said Kerry would raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for $2.2 trillion in new spending programs.
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Stern to Join Sirius Satellite Radio
Thursday, October 7, 2004
AP's LARRY McSHANE - - Connecticut Post
| Howard Stern has long had two words for the Federal Communications Commission - and in 15 months, he can finally utter them on the air. The self-proclaimed "King of All Media," perhaps the most influential radio voice of the last 20 years, is shifting his salacious act to satellite radio and freeing himself from the increasingly harsh glare of federal regulators.
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Gadget Helps Women Use Bathroom in Japan
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
AP's AIKO HAYASHI - - Connecticut Post
| TOKYO (AP) -- When Naoko Ito uses a public bathroom, she cringes in embarrassment at the thought that other patrons can hear the sounds coming from her stall. That's when she turns to the "Sound Princess."
Ito, like a rapidly growing number of Japanese women, presses a device installed in public toilets to simulate the sound of water flushing - and mask the cruder noises of nature.
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Dems, GOP united on social issues in state
Sunday, October 3, 2004 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Democrats and Republicans across the nation are sharply divided this election season on three major social issues: gay marriage, abortion and embryonic stem cell research.
Not so in Connecticut.
On these social issues, Connecticut Republican candidates are ignoring their party's platform and are siding with Democrats.
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Israeli Forces Kill 10 in Gaza Camp Raid
Saturday, October 2, 2004
AP's IBRAHIM BARZAK - - Connecticut Post
| Israeli troops and aircraft hit hard at Palestinian militants Saturday, killing at least 10 on the third bloody day of a massive Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip's largest refugee camp, as masked Hamas gunmen vowed more rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
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Merck Halts Vioxx Sales on Health Threats
Thursday, September 30, 2004
AP's LINDA A. JOHNSON - - Connecticut Post
| Merck & Co. is pulling its blockbuster Vioxx from the market after new data found the arthritis drug doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Merck's stock plunged almost 27 percent as the pharmaceutical giant said the recall will hurt its earnings.
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White House Opposes Sections of 9/11 Bill
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Connecticut Post
| The White House came out Tuesday against parts of a Senate intelligence reorganization bill, saying they would create "a cumbersome new bureaucracy" for coordinating the activities of 15 spy agencies under a national intelligence director.
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Bets May Reveal 'Apprentice' Finalists
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
AP's DERRIK J. LANG - - Connecticut Post
| Uh-oh. This might fire up Donald Trump. An offshore bookie has suspended betting on the winner of the second season of NBC's "The Apprentice," citing an "unusual betting pattern on two contestants" from accounts originating in New Hampshire.
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Bush, Kerry Pause to Trade Barbs on Iraq
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
AP's NEDRA PICKLER and DEB RIECHMANN - - Connecticut Post
| President Bush and rival Sen. John Kerry paused from private debate practice on Monday to accuse each other of a lack of clarity on Iraq as they campaigned in "must win" states for each - the Republican incumbent in Ohio and his Democratic challenger in Wisconsin.
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Capitol clash looms over 9-11 reforms
Monday, September 27, 2004 PETER URBAN - - Connecticut Post
| Congress appears headed for a clash over legislation aimed at implementing recommendations of the 9-11 Commission to strengthen the nation's intelligence system and national security.
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Suicide Attack Kills 2 in Israel; 16 Hurt
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
AP's Peter Enav - - Connecticut Post
| A Palestinian teenager blew herself up at a busy Jerusalem bus station Wednesday, killing two Israeli policemen who stopped her for a security check and wounding 16 bystanders in an attack that evaded Israel's clampdown on the West Bank for the Jewish holidays.
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