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Rick Green
New Leader Of Mohegan Tribe Facing Many Challenges - October 13, 2009 - There certainly have been better moments in recent history for Lynn Malerba to take over as the first female tribal chairwoman of the...
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Colin McEnroe
Thanks To Focus Group, Guv Has The Answers - October 11, 2009 - I have always been convinced that my governor, M. Jodi Rell, was a person of remarkable vision and leadership, and, on those rare...
Helen Ubiñas
24-Hour Stores: Time For Action - October 11, 2009 - If it wasn't so frustrating, it might have been comical that nearly a month after a North End mom called me...
Peter Marteka
It's Hunting Season: Wear Bright Colors - October 11, 2009 - Last week, I found myself in Tolland at a place called Schindler-Schmidt Open Space Conservation Area. There was a light breeze blowing...
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Jon Lender
State Pays Judges' Commuter Mileage - October 11, 2009 - If you offered most Connecticut residents a job for more than $150,000 a year inside the state's borders, they'd gladly accept — and...
Opinion
Laurence Cohen & Gina Barreca
How Well Do We Know Each Other? - October 11, 2009 - Gina Larry, I'm intrigued: Is it a woman thing that I'm always being asked — yes, mostly by members of my...
Tom Condon
Central's Big Makeover - October 11, 2009 - Much has been made — and rightly so — of the changes wrought at the University of Connecticut's main campus in Storrs by the...
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Frank Harris III
Americans: The Not-So-Great Unwashed - October 1, 2009 - A group of interplanetary aliens studying Americans might easily decide that we are the cleanest bunch of folks in the galaxy.
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Kevin Rennie
Rell Pollster's E-Mails Show Servile Streak - October 11, 2009 - Gov. M. Jodi Rell was wrong if she thought the hardest part of the year ended when she folded her backbone, slithered away from her pledge...
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Robert M. Thorson
Ardi Is A Big Step Closer To Evolutionary Split - October 8, 2009 - It just got easier to believe in human evolution. Lucy has moved out of the limelight. Ardi has stepped into our lives.
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Features
Susan Campbell
They're Doing Jesus' Work - October 11, 2009 - Because the poor needed to be fed, in 1980 two Sisters of St. Joseph brought a 12-cup coffee pot and a toaster to Hartford's North End....
Java: MaryEllen Fillo
A SMART (But Nervous) Girl Takes The Podium - October 14, 2009 - The Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford's 2009 SMART girl of the year, 12-year-old Meilany Caimares, was a little nervous...
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Carole Goldberg
Pulitzer Authors At Stowe Center - October 8, 2009 - The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford will get some impressive literary support on Friday when three Pulitzer Prize-winning authors...
Dr. Sandra R. Scantling
The Courage Of Patients To Face Their Hopes, Fears - October 4, 2009 - Years ago, when I was a novice therapist, Karen, a 36-year-old married obstetrician/gynecologist and her 40-year-old pediatrician husband,...
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Peter Sleight
An Alternate Bulb Choice: Overlooked Alliums - October 2, 2009 - Since it's fall and time for planting bulbs, I'm going through my usual exercise of pondering what to plant.
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Jim Shea
Monday Is Least Happy Day Of The Week; Who Knew? - October 14, 2009 - I was not happy Monday morning.
Ask Amy
Ugly divorce leaves cousins out in cold - October 14, 2009 - Dear Amy: My brother and his soon to be ex-wife have been married for 19 years. They have twin girls who are...
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Sports
Jeff Jacobs
Endres Over Frazer The Right Call At QB - October 14, 2009 - Cody plays. Zach doesn't.
Lori Riley
26.2 Miles? Everyone Has Their Reasons - October 11, 2009 - — Scratch the surface of a runner, any runner, and you'll find a story.
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Business
Kevin Hunt
The NFL Fan's Secret Weapon: Rabbit Ears - October 4, 2009 - In a display of Belichickian brilliance, resourceful Patriots fans in northern Connecticut last week watched their favorite team play even...
Duncan Haimerl
Ingenious Fixes For Those Pesky Bulb Failures - October 10, 2009 - Q: As the owner of a '99 Century with 150,000 miles on it, I am quite familiar with the "bulb" problem (Motoring, Oct. 3). I'm somewhat...
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Dan Haar
Pratt Union Faces Tougher Fight - September 23, 2009 - Ten years ago exactly, Philip Root was fixing jet engines in East Hartford, with 25 years on the job, when word came down that his unit...
Entertainment
Roger Catlin
'Frontline,' 'Tip Of The Spear' Report From Afghanistan - October 11, 2009 - The 26th season of " Frontline" (CPTV, Tuesday, 9 p.m.) can't come too soon.
Eric R. Danton
Skaggs At Bushnell, Rain In Wallingford - October 8, 2009 - Bluegrass mainstay Ricky Skaggs performs Nov. 6 at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts; tickets are $40, $30...
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Frank Rizzo
Patinkin To Yale; Trinity Honors Tesori - October 8, 2009 - Tony and Emmy award winner Mandy Patinkin will star in the world premiere of Rinne Groff
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