HARTFORD — The Connecticut Senate passed one of the nation’s most restrictive gun-control packages in a 26-10 vote Wednesday night. Three months after the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, following several weeks of intense, bipartisan negotiation, the Senate delivered its legislative response to the shooting with 20 of 22 Democrats and 6 of 14 Republicans »
In back door meetings that concluded late last night, Connecticut lawmakers struck a long-awaited deal on gun legislation that they plan to unveil to the legislature today. The legislation, which was first proposed following the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, will likely contain new gun restrictions as well as changes to the state’s mental healthcare system »
The Connecticut General Assembly unanimously passed a bill today creating a fund for first responders, teachers and others who suffered psychological trauma from the Sandy Hook shooting. Backed by private donations, the new fund will supplement an existing workers compensation fund that pays for lost wages resulting from a workplace physical injury, but does not currently compensate people for purely »
A new poll released by Quinnipiac University this morning found broad support for many of the gun-control proposals currently being debated in the state Legislature. The poll, which sampled 1,009 Connecticut residents in early March with a 3-point margin of error, found that the majority of the state supports tightening generic gun-control laws. “In the wake of the Newtown »
President Barack Obama named Gina McCarthy, the former commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, as the nation’s next head of the Environmental Protection Agency in a press conference Monday morning. McCarthy currently heads the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, where she tightened limits on soot and mercury emissions from power plants. In Connecticut, where »