November 24, 2011
From The Federation of Connecticut
Taxpayer Organizations
Contact Susan Kniep, President
Website: http://ctact.org/
Email: fctopresident@aol.com
Telephone: 860-841-8032
Shakeup: 3 Malloy
Administration officials leaving by end of year
By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas on
November 1, 2011 Gov.
Dannel P. Malloy's administration lost three key
officials on Tuesday with the announcements that chief of staff Timothy Bannon, communications director Colleen Flanagan and
director of operations Alvin Wilson are leaving. Read more http://www.ctmirror.org/story/14381/shakeup-malloy-administration-three-...
CBO: Incomes of top earners grow at a pace far faster
than everyone else’s
Top of the heap: CEO pay database
Special Report: Breakaway Wealth
An ongoing series about how the rich are
pulling away from the rest of America
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/specialreports/inequality
The
World's Billionaires
Forbes 400
Richest Americans
Utah: State Sued Over Immigration Law
Visit http://PensionTsunami.com to access articles on Public Employee
Pensions Impacting
State and Municipal
Budgets
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The Journal Inquirer http://journalinquirer.com/
Reports : Jepsen raps bid to
expand concealed gun law; Courtney lone supporter in state’s delegation, By Don Michak, Journal Inquirer,
November 21, 2011 - A bill to expand the right to carry concealed firearms that
the U.S. House of Representatives passed last week would undermine Connecticut
law and unfairly burden police, according to Attorney General George Jepsen, who with colleagues in other states called for the
U.S. Senate to reject the measure. The
National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act would allow people with a permit to
carry a concealed weapon in one state to bring it into any other state that
also has a concealed gun law. Backed by
the National Rifle Association, it passed the Republican-controlled House in a
272-154 vote mostly along party lines.
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Investor account
theft more than double prior estimates …in MF Global scandal Kenneth
Schortgen Jr
Finance Examiner November 21, 2011 – On November 21st,
the trustee for the MF Global bankruptcy issued a report that investor account
losses appear to be twice the original $600 million reported in the early
stages of the MF Global scandal.
Now estimated at $1.2 billion dollars, the amount of
customer money moved, transferred, or stolen from accounts tied to MF Global
may grow even higher as the financial reckoning for the primary dealer is still
months away.
Read at http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/investor-account-theft-more-than-double-prior-estimates-mf-global-scandal
Continue reading on Examiner.com Investor account theft more than double prior estimates in
MF Global scandal - National Finance Examiner | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/investor-account-theft-more-than-double-prior-estimates-mf-global-scandal#ixzz1eMm7pJDx
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Being a Washington insider has made Newt Gingrich a wealthy
man
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State benefit mandates could cost the state under health
reformBy Arielle Levin
Becker Nov 18, 2011 CTMirror.org Expanding the list of services that
health insurance plans must cover has become a perennial fight in the state
legislature. Connecticut
now requires health insurance plans to cover more services than just about any
other state does. But that means that when federal health reform rolls out in
just over two years, that could leave the state -- not the insurers -- with a
bill to pay. http://www.ctmirror.org/story/14541/state-benefit-mandates-could-cost-state-under-health-reform
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Congratulations to Kathleen
Mitchell of New London
who stood with Susette Kelo
and her neighbors in their battle against Eminent Domain. Kathleen’s recent success in preserving
Riverside Park in New London has been recognized by the New London Day in the
following article captioned: Hail to the Riverside victors Regarding
Riverside: Riverside Files - Final Installment
, Riverside Files Part Three,
Riverside Files: Part Two, Riverside Files Part One
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US shifts deportation focus to criminals, closing other
illegal immigrant cases By Sara Miller Llana, Staff writer / November
18, 2011 Immigrants rights groups praise
the Department of Homeland Security's plan to focus on deporting criminals, but
critics say the diminished focus on non-criminal aliens is a 'backdoor amnesty.' http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2011/1118/US-shifts-deportation-focus-to-criminals-closing-other-illegal-immigrant-cases
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Voter turnout 30.6% following storm - Connecticut