From U.S. Senator Chris Murphy: U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Sunday appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. Murphy unequivocally condemned Trump’s choice
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Trump Claims Big Wins, But CT Democrats Describe A Crisis
By Lisa Hagen and Associated Press, CT Mirror February 24, 2026 As President Donald Trump declared that America is in “a turnaround for the ages”
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Supremes, 6-3, Rule Against Trump’s Tariffs, Lamont: Americans Have Been Paying The Price
Statement from Governor Lamont: Governor Ned Lamont released the following statement regarding today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming that President Donald Trump does not have
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Watch: Trump L.I. Sound Bridge? A “No Brainer” Connecting Bridgeport To Long Island – Job Creation, Revenue Producer, Traffic Relief
On a sun-splashed, blustery Tuesday in Seaside Park, Connecticut’s most scenic municipal landscape, an oceanic statue of showman P.T. Barnum who donated the land
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A Forrest Gump Life – Jack McGregor, Community Icon And Developer, Passes Away at 91
U.S. Marine, Yalie, Pennsylvania state senator, lawyer, oil man, founder Pittsburgh Penguins, CEO Aquarion Water Company, founder Bridgeport Bluefish, Bridgeport resident – Jack McGregor did
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OIB 20-Year Anniversary Story – Channeling The Donald At His Manhattan Home
Who knew – not me – when OIB launched what it would become, a staying-power news site focused on government and politics. We tapped into
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Columnist: Trump Right On Crime But Connecticut Indifferent
From OIB media partner Chris Powell For the sake of argument, stipulate that President Trump, a Republican, never has good intentions, only demagogic ones, and
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Columnist: CT Dems Get Hysterical As Trump Proclaims The Obvious About Crime And Mental Illness
From Veteran columnist Chris Powell: How easily President Trump can send Connecticut’s Democratic elected officials and its social-service industry into sanctimonious indignation and hysteria just
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