CT's Richard Blumenthal Looks Ahead to U.S. Senate
Now with a firm grip on the job he has long aspired to, Richard Blumenthal heads to the U.S. Senate when the new Congress begins its session in January.
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Now with a firm grip on the job he has long aspired to, Richard Blumenthal heads to the U.S. Senate when the new Congress begins its session in January.
On January 5, 2011, Jodi Rell leaves the Connecticut state capitol and Dan Malloy takes over as governor.
A resolution expressing no confidence in White Plains mayor Adam Bradley and calling for his resignation passed the White Plains Common Council on Wednesday night.
After a last-minute compromise, Congress passed legislation Wednesday to provide new aid to survivors of the September 2001 terrorism attack on the World Trade Center.
Bill Holland of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance will lead a rally outsider Assemblyman Alex DeCroce's office in Whippany Wednesday.
Joseph D'Amico, who oversees 300 criminal and civil investigators, joined the attorney general's office in 2007.
President Barack Obama says valor and sacrifice in the armed forces are no longer defined by sexual orientation.
The New Jersey Senate President said he'll push for new laws to force towns to share services and to change some gun laws in the new year.
Senators Schumer and Gillibrand joined 9/11 first responders at a news conference in Washington Tuesday afternoon urging Congress to "heed the call" and "pass the bill."
"The current system is not helping our kids. It isn't helping tax payers and it isn't helping public safety," Mayor Bloomberg said.
Census data for 2010 shows New Jersey will lose one of its 13 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and New York is set to lose two seats in Congress.
A Corrections Department spokeswoman says 27-year-old Brian Aitken, who was found with guns he'd purchased legally in Colorado, left Mid-State Correctional Facility Tuesday morning.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a bill on Tuesday that aims to help New Jersey towns control costs and ease property tax increases.
The federal government wants the city to replace fluorescent light fixtures that might leak PCBs. The city says they pose no immediate danger.
Lenders including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Citibank, will have to appear in court next month and defend their foreclosure practices.
