Some of you out in the blogosphere may have wondered where Patrick Scully’s new blog, the Hanging Shad, has gone. Well, apparently Mr. Scully has had better months… According to Pat, he recently tumbled down a flight of stairs and broke his back. He is currently laid up at Hartford Hospital through Christmas and we all [...]
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Congratulations to Lee Howard, a member of The Day’s business reporting team, who has been named a recipient of (deep breath…) the National Award for Distinguished Literary Contributions Furthering Engineering Professionalism from the U.S. Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (whew!). Howard won the award for his series of stories last year on Pfizer’s use of HB-1 [...]
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Ed Flynn, who has been host of WATR’s ‘Talk of the Town’ for the past 18 years, has announced that he is leaving the program. Flynn will hand over the reins to veteran broadcaster Larry Rifkin on January 11th. Flynn will continue to work at the station.
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Wrestlers, VIP loans, a billionaire from Greenwich, an entrenched incumbent… and now cake. Sen. Chris Dodd sent this beauty to the state Capitol Press Room for their annual holiday party this past week. It looks like we are in for an entertaining year of politics in Connecticut!
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Congrats to Dennis House and the Face the State crew for making it into The Fix – the Washington Post’s must-read political blog. Apparently, Dennis and former Connecticut Democratic Party chairman Ed Marcus talk about Sen. Chris Dodd and Marcus urges the Senator to step aside “for the good of the party.”
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…Joe Lieberman post (for a while) as every other media outlet in the nation is all over him. But the Connecticut media news peg here is Gail Collins of the New York Times, formerly a Connecticut state house reporter. She concludes today’s column with a recollection from her days in Hartford covering then- State Senate [...]
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