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Hard-Charging Campaign Manager Runs Point For McMahon's Assault On Murphy

2012-09-15 12:57:00

Supporters waiting to shake Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon's hand at a campaign event in Farmington last month didn't pay much attention to the tall, boyish-looking operative hovering at the edge of the crowd. That man, Corry Bliss, 31,...

Chris Murphy Faced Foreclosure On Home

2012-09-05 13:26:00

U.S. Rep. and Democratic Senate candidate Christopher Murphy was sued for foreclosure of his mortgage two months after he became a member of Congress. Murphy's mortgage odyssey would prove different than those of millions of others who fell behind on...

Murphy Wins Democratic Primary For U.S. Senate

2012-08-14 19:21:00

With wide advantages in fundraising, endorsements, and the Democratic party's backing, Chris Murphy roared to victory Tuesday night over former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz in the U.S. Senate primary. With this win, Murphy, 39, solidified his...

Cracking The Campaign Contribution Code

2012-08-03 15:56:12

Fifth District Republican congressional candidate Andrew Roraback started cracking the code of rival Lisa Wilson-Foley's generous campaign contributions to Democratic U.S. Rep. Christopher Murphy's first two campaigns for Congress in 2006 and 2008....

An early Christmas and an extraordinary career

2011-07-15 17:48:00

During two respective events this past week, hundreds of Burbankers got a jump on celebrating the Yuletide season while others honored a woman who, during the span of her remarkable 36-year journalism career, has covered and chronicled the lives of...

Some residents want higher traffic fines

2011-03-26 01:31:01

BISMARCK, N.D. - Mike Reitan said he got his first speeding ticket in 1975, a $13 fine for driving 13 mph over the limit in Arthur, N.D. In 1984, as a rookie police officer in Casselton, he wrote a $13 ticket for the same violation. Reitan is now...

Fashionably funding local organizations

2010-08-25 00:00:00

With the kids back in school, and Labor Day less than two weeks away, the Burbank Emblem Club squeezed in one last summer fundraiser by staging their annual fashion show luncheon at the Burbank Elks Lodge on Saturday. Presented under the theme "Summer...

Kiwanians honor civically committed couple

2010-08-11 00:00:00

Former Burbank Mayor George Battey, who served in the early 1990s and died in 2003, once joked that despite the freeway sign that proclaimed there were more than 100,000 Burbank residents, he could have been easily convinced there were only 400 people...

Local Methodists celebrate milestone

2010-09-14 20:25:00

In New York, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty had just been put into place. In the nation's capital, the Washington Monument was finally completed, and President Chester Arthur would become the last sitting president to date to lose his party's...

Call Him The Anti-Dodd: Simmons Focuses On His Foe's Woes A Race For The Senate

2010-01-14 16:29:08

Three days after announcing his plan to take on Connecticut's senior senator, Rob Simmons breezed past a bunch of kids sitting in the gym of the Regional Multicultural Magnet School in New London. It wasn't a political appearance: Simmons was here to...

Congressman Chris Murphy Faces His First Race As An Incumbent

2008-10-06 00:00:00

It's a brilliant September Sunday, and U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy is striding across driveways in Tariffville, trawling for votes one door at a time, like a guy running for small-town selectman. Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut's 5th District, tells a...

Former U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson, left, speaks as former West Hartford Mayor Ann Streeter looks on.

2012-04-23 00:00:00

From left are, moderator Professor Cynthia Riccio, of Tunxis Community College, former U.S. Rep. Nancy Johnson, former West Hartford Mayor Ann Streeter, state Sen.

2012-04-23 00:00:00

Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman talks to the crowd assembled to hear Sen John McCain. Former U.S. Representatives Nancy Johnson and Lt. Gov Michael Fedele (R. CT) applaud behind him. (Corrects editing error from earlier post)

2008-02-03 00:00:00