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This is why one should never assume anything!Today Lieutenant Governor Mike Fedele has to be feeling a little vexed by Gov. Rell's statement regarding who she endorses ... WTNH's Mark Davis had this to say:Is Governor Rell stepping back from a commitment to Lieutenant Governor Michael Fedele? [..]She also appeared to contradict Lieutenant Governor Michael Fedele’s claim made just moments after she ...

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A Commentor’s Election Preview

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Published Oct. 29, 2009 at 11:44 p.m.

About this time seven days from now, you’ll have the answers you seek regarding the election. Here’s how I see it unfolding, but you never know?The Democrats hold on to the six seats they have with Mark Weinberg bringing up the rear on that ticket. What happens after that is anybody’s guess?I suppose Don Pitkin [ ... ] ...

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Mark Mulcahy: A Musical Lifeboat

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Published Sept. 17, 2009 at 11:13 p.m.

Mark and Melissa met in 1994, when she saw him performing at the Bay State Hotel in Northampton, Mass. "It was really simple. She said something to me and I looked at her," he says. "We just were very much together after that." It's possible Mulcahy wouldn't have a solo career without her. At the time, his indie band, Miracle Legion, had broken up. Melissa pushed him to start a record label—Mezzotint was born in their apartment, and Mulcahy still uses it. In his 1997 solo debut, , his songs

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This is gonna be a juicy story

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Published June 24, 2009 at 2:33 p.m.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has returned to an Atlanta airport from his little mystery jaunt, according to a CNN report this morning ... Sanford allegedly told his family and most of his staff that he was taking a few days to hike the Appalachian Trail, in an effort to "clear his head for a few days." Instead, he parked his car full of his "hiking gear" at an Atlanta airport and he flew to ...

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Kathryn Bigelow Talks About "The Hurt Locker"

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Published June 19, 2009 at 4:21 p.m.

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Just before dawn one July morning, Kathryn Bigelow was setting up a shot for in the Jordanian desert. The movie follows an Explosive Ordnance Disposal bomb technician, one of the hundred or so soldiers in Iraq who dismantle roadside IEDs planted by insurgents. For the scene, the tech and two of his co--workers would detonate a bomb in the middle of the desert, and Bigelow wanted to shoot them from atop a high sand dune. This meant that the crew had to tote all their gear to the top of a hill in

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Figuring Out Jodi Rell

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Published April 12, 2009 at 12:36 a.m.

The New York Times’s Mark Pazniokas has penned a lengthy piece about Gov. Jodi Rell, in which people from all across the ideological spectrum wrack their brains to try and figure out where her immense popularity, strong even in the face of economic disaster, comes from. Some respondents think it’s because she hasn’t made hard [ ... ] ...

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Video of the Day: Climbing to the top of the charts

Published April 8, 2009 at 9:04 p.m.

Country music star Keith Urban topped the Billboard 200 album chart with his latest effort, "Defying Gravity." Urban edged out Prince's triple release "Elixer / LOtUSFLOW3R / MPLSoUND." Here are two songs. Use the Talkback feature to let us know which one you like.

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West Hartford Small Town Government: Inspiration Or Not?

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Published April 6, 2009 at 12:34 p.m.

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The Courant's Roger Catlin wrote an article about West Hartford's Michael Schur who co-wrote and co-produces the new NBC comedy entitled Parks and Recreation, which is supposedly a parody of Small-Town Government and possibly modeled after our own West Hartford ... Why not? there's enough comedy in our Town Hall, and the projects they embark upon, to last a writer's lifetime. I mean, have you been to a town meeting lately? Some times the Town Council and Board of Education meetings become "Must

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Thirty Years Ago

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Published March 29, 2009 at 11:32 p.m.

If you are like me (that is, rapidly aging) then you'll probably remember the several days of uncertainty that started on March 28th, 1979. This weekend is the 30th anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident ... Now, please keep in mind this article has no agenda, or pro or con angle on nuclear power ... I'm just writing it to mark an anniversary of my experience during a moment in history.I had ...

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2008 Wrap-Up In West Hartford

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Published Dec. 31, 2008 at 6:56 p.m.

Was it a good year for West Hartford? Let's take a walk down memory lane and take a look. (And thanks to West Hartford News online archives.) ... January 2008 ... A Runaway was discovered in a West Hartford home ... Police discovered a missing 15-year-old Bloomfield girl alive in a cubby hole in a West Hartford home and sordid details of her bizarre year with 41-year-old Adam Gault ... West Hartford and Bloomfield officers discovered the girl, presumed dead, very much alive in Gault's home in

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