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Seymour Looks To Fund New Communication Equipment

by Tony Spinelli | Mar 2, 2011 4:45 pm | Comments (0)

A radio dead zone on Route 34 is only one part of the communication troubles the town’s emergency services face.

Aging dispatch equipment at the Seymour Police Department has prompted its own problems, including a breakdown in January that cut off nearly all emergency services communications, according to Tom Eighmie, the town’s Director of Emergency Management. 

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State Lawmaker Proposes Gun Offender Registry

by Christine Stuart | CT News Junkie | Feb 10, 2011 4:38 pm | Comments (0)

The concept is similar to the sex offender registry, but unlike the sex offender registry Sen. Majority Leader Martin Looney said his proposed gun offender registry won’t be available to the public, just law enforcement.

Looney told the legislature’s Public Safety Committee Thursday that the idea was suggested to him by New Haven Police Chief Frank Limon.

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Vet Groups Want Answers To ‘Wrongful’ Discharges

by Lisa Chedekel | Dec 15, 2010 5:25 pm | Comments (0)

While the number of veterans discharged for ​“personality disorder” has dropped dramatically in the last two years, the numbers of service members diagnosed with adjustment disorder has climbed, leading veterans’ groups to charge Wednesday that the military may be playing a shell game to deny benefits to combat veterans.

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New Spin On Inaugural Ball

by Caitlin Emma | CT News Junkie | Nov 26, 2010 9:06 am | Comments (0)

Would you prefer a sit-down dinner, or are you the buffet type?

This year’s gubernatorial Inaugural Ball on January 5 will offer both dining options at the request of Governor-Elect Dan Malloy. In previous years, guests purchased their spots in the room, sipped on drinks, noshed on appetizers and mingled with other guests.

“In the past it was a reception kind of affair,” said Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Conroy, the Inaugural Ball chairman of the First Company Governor’s Foot Guard. ​“This year he asks that we make it a sit-down dinner.”

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Pop-Ups Ahead

by Staff | Nov 11, 2010 6:16 pm | Comments (0)

The next time you click on an Independent story, you might see one of those annoying pop-ups you find on other sites. There’s a reason. 

The pop-ups are part of an experiment in how quality news reporting will be funded in this country in the future. 

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McMahon Campaign: Linda Didn’t Misspeak

by Christine Stuart | CT News Junkie | Oct 11, 2010 7:28 am | Comments (0)

Republican U.S. Senate nominee Linda McMahon’s interview with ABC​’s Christiane Amanpour raised questions about her previous positions on Medicare and Social Security, but her campaign argued Sunday that nothing had changed.

In the interview, which aired Sunday, Amanpour asked McMahon about her lack of specifics on which particular programs in the federal budget she would seek to cut.

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Debate Recap: Blumenthal, McMahon

by Paul Bass | Oct 4, 2010 9:21 pm | Comments (0)

No one cares about Afghanistan. Everyone loves that ​“passionate” Tea Partiers. And all that hullabaloo over the Vietnam War? That was so last summer.

That’s how the world — or at least Connecticut’s electorate — thinks.

At least that’s what you would think after watching the first head-to-head debate Monday night between the two major-party candidates for Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat.

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