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Most, but not all, of the GOP messaging comes in the name and voice of Senate Minority Leader Stephen Harding, who unexpectedly emerged as the Republican leader in February 2024.

Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas has apologized for making a reference to Nazi Germany’s SS in denouncing President Donald J. Trump’s executive order on ballot access to a bipartisan audience of registrars of voters.

Forty-four Connecticut companies already are working on the Artemis program, the ambitious successor to the Apollo program that landed 12 Americans on the moon in six missions, beginning with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in July 1969.

Anticipating President Donald J. Trump’s latest and broadest round of tariffs, Gov. Ned Lamont complained Wednesday they will add to the $5 billion in additional costs on Connecticut businesses from previous Trump tariffs and make the state’s exports less competitive.

His approach may be tested Tuesday when he speaks at anti-Trump rally.

The bills create off-budget accounts for the two appropriations, with the money expected to come from the $300 million in interest the state earned while holding federal pandemic aid.

Connecticut’s new crime data chief was introduced Tuesday with a promise of faster analysis, greater transparency — and a report showing crime fell by 14.1% in the first three quarters of 2024, compared to the same time a year ago.

Many bills raised by the Connecticut GOP won’t pass, but they make a statement about the party’s identity as it tries to reverse a string of losses.

It was the governor's strongest defense of the spending cap, though he was not as definitive on another guardrail: a mechanism called the volatility cap that diverts certain revenues to budget reserves and paying down debt and pension liabilities.

The shrinking margins for Vice President Kamala Harris in Connecticut cities was a jolt to an otherwise thriving state Democratic Party that now has struggled in successive gubernatorial and presidential elections to engage and turn out urban voters, a worrying sign as the party turns to the 2026 gubernatorial cycle.