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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy walked a picket line Wednesday with striking nursing-home workers, accusing HealthBridge Management of New Jersey of violating labor laws in its battle with employees at its five facilities in Connecticut. "Let's be honest. What HealthBridge is attempting to do illegally is to break the union. That's what they want to do," Malloy said. "They want to be the new model in the state of Connecticut, and we don't want them to be." Emboldened by a National Labor Relations Board complaint accusing the company of bargaining in bad faith last week, Malloy was unusually harsh in his...

A bill repealing the death penalty cleared the Judiciary Committee on a 24-19 vote Wednesday night and was headed to the Senate, where a proponent, Sen. Eric D. Coleman, D-Bloomfield, said he was "very optimistic" about winning passage. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is committed to signing a repeal bill similar to one vetoed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell in 2009 after it squeaked through the Senate on a 19-17 vote. With eight new senators, a vote in the Senate again is projected to be close. The governor discounted the impact of a new Quinnipiac University poll that found Connecticut voters...

I have one question to ask which has been kind of bugging me. Where is Jane Wyman? I know she was Ronald Reagan's first wife and IIRC, she is the mother to Maureen and Michael (adopted) but I haven't seen hide nor hair of Jane Wyman. Is she going to any of the funeral speeches?

NEW YORK (AP) - The former chief executive officer of CBS became the first member of the Augusta National Golf Club to resign in protest over the club's refusal to admit a woman member, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Thomas H. Wyman, a 25-year member of Augusta National, told the Times that club chairman Hootie Johnson's position not to admit women was unacceptable and ``pigheaded.'' He estimated that as many as one quarter of the roughly 300 club members also support the admission of women.``I am not anxious to make this personal,'' Wyman told the newspaper. ``But Hootie keeps...

Editorial: Wyman's legacy Tuesday, May 7, 2002 Monitor editorial The congressman's mistakes overshadow his merits. In the end, despite many years as a fine lawyer and judge, it seems that five-term New Hampshire Congressman Louis Wyman, who died Sunday at his Florida home at age 85, is famous largely for finding himself on the wrong side of history. Some people in New Hampshire no doubt know that he was the man credited with preventing the closure of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard during the 1960s. More, we suspect, know that he voted against the 1963 Civil Rights Act, a vote he...