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The Sale Of Municipal Assets, Like Streets And Buildings, Can Help With A Budget Gap, But Critics Think It's Unwise

By Gregory B. Hladky

Portable Credit Card Readers Make It Easier For Small Business To Sell Their Wares

By Michael Hamad

Connecticut Instrument Makers Craft Guitars Out of Old Cigar Boxes

By Marc Ferris

The Sale Of Municipal Assets, Like Streets And Buildings, Can Help With A Budget Gap, But Critics Think It's Unwise

Portable Credit Card Readers Make It Easier For Small Business To Sell Their Wares

Connecticut Instrument Makers Craft Guitars Out of Old Cigar Boxes

Connecticut Lawmakers Push For More Regulations and Permits For Tattoo Artists

By Gregory B. Hladky

Keeping Track of Legally Purchased Guns Presents a Big Challenge

By Gregory B. Hladky

Did State Democrats Just Ruin Connecticut's Campaign-Financing System?

By Gregory B. Hladky

Do This State's New Pro-Immigration Rules Make Connecticut the "Anti-Arizona?" By Gregory B. Hladky	Recycling Roadkill: Our Cars Kill a Stunning Number of Animals Every Year By Gregory B. Hladky
People Are Freaking Out About 'Running Bamboo' By Gregory B. Hladky	Connecticut Lawmakers Debate Beer Pouches, Mattresses, For-Profit Schools and Tanning Beds By Gregory B. Hladky
Circular Logic: Connecticut Drivers Should Stop Worrying and Embrace Roundabouts By Gregory B. Hladky	Google Glass May Be Banned From Connecticut Roads and Casinos By Gregory B. Hladky
How a Sophisticated Gunshot-Locating Device Kept Giving Police False Alarms By Gregory B. Hladky	A Look at Racial Disparities in Connecticut's Criminal Justice System By Gregory B. Hladky
Connecticut NAACP Suffering From Vicious Infighting, According to Members By Gregory B. Hladky	Young Connecticut Farmers Look For New Solutions and New Crops By Gregory B. Hladky
Connecticut Beekeepers Worry About Pesticide Use By Siobhan Crise	More Connecticut Police Forces Have Begun Using Dashboard Cams By Gregory B. Hladky
A New Crop of Local, Creative, Small Businesses Appear in Connecticut By Siobhan Crise	What Happens When State-Funded Businesses Fail? By Gregory B. Hladky
Connecticut Lawmakers Consider Changes to Digital Billboards By Gregory B. Hladky	Letter: There Was No Tampering and Bribery in Taylor/Gould Case By our readers
The Dangerous Designer Drug "Smiles" Has Reached Connecticut's Streets By Christopher Burns	A 20-Year-Old Murder Creates Controversy in Connecticut's Criminal Justice System By Gregory B. Hladky
Activists Accuse Congresswoman DeLauro of Taking Too Long to Weigh in on Deportations By Gregory B. Hladky	Connecticut Makes Progress as a Bicycle-Friendly State, But There's a Long Way to Go By Gregory B. Hladky
Connecticut's 17-Year Cicada Brood is About to Wake Up By Gregory B. Hladky	Is a Rebranded UCONN Huskies Logo All About Selling More Merch? By Gregory B. Hladky
Connecticut Builders Craft Interesting and Unusual Musical Instruments By Michael Hamad	A Lawsuit Could Test the Limits of the Rights of the Disabled in the Bedroom By Nick Keppler
Seaweed Farming in the Connecticut Sound Could Help Grow the Economy By Gregory B. Hladky	Should Police Use of Tasers Be Regulated? By Gregory B. Hladky
Reports Suggest Rice May Contain Unacceptably High Levels Of Arsenic By Siobhan Crise	Cadaver Care: Yale Medical Students Respect the Lives of Their Anatomical Donors By Gregory B. Hladky
A New Connecticut-Based Website Works to Uncover False Advertising By Gregory B. Hladky	Was the First Airplane Actually Invented in Connecticut? By Robert Davey
Some Farmers Market Merchants Using the "Local" Label to Sell Out-Of-State Produce By Gregory B. Hladky	A State Lawmaker Wants to Revive a Program That Gets Guns Off the Streets By Gregory B. Hladky
Connecticut Nutritionist in a Standoff With Monster After Calling Out Energy Drinks By Gregory B. Hladky	The Battle Over BPA in Connecticut By Gregory B. Hladky
An Effective System For Handling Low-Level Drug Offenders Was Axed In 2002 By Gregory B. Hladky	State Lawmakers Considering New Rules on Tanning Beds By Gregory B. Hladky
Some Connecticut Lawmakers Want Tougher Regulations on Hookah Lounges By Gregory B. Hladky	Are Toll Roads Coming Back to Connecticut? By Gregory B. Hladky
Why Are Connecticut's Insect-Eating Birds Dying Off? By Gregory B. Hladky	Wine, Cheese, Booze and the Law By Gregory B. Hladky
Post-Viral: Life After YouTube Fame By Siobhan Crise	Weight Discrimination: Obesity Presents More Than Just Health Problems By Gregory B. Hladky
Hitting the Small Screen: Connecticut Designers in the Apps and Games Business By Michael Hamad	The Tire Pond Environmental Nightmare Comes to an End By Gregory B. Hladky
The Planned Deportation of a New Haven Man Sparks Protests of Federal Immigration Policies By Gregory B. Hladky	Racist Pollution?: NAACP Accuses Bridgeport Harbor Station of Hurting Black and Latino Families By Gregory B. Hladky
A Proposed Bill Has Connecticut Bicyclists Up in Arms By Gregory B. Hladky	Critics Accuse a Connecticut-Based Autism Website of Misusing Funds By Gregory B. Hladky
Smart Guns: Lawmakers Debate Whether Technology Can Make Firearms Safer By Gregory B. Hladky	A Reporter Accidentally Records Norwalk's Mayor, and Legal Fireworks Follow By Nick Keppler
Closing Time?: A Prolonged Budget Crunch Could Spell Hard Times For State Parks By Gregory B. Hladky	Mansfield Residents Want to Know More About UConn's Chemical Tests By Gregory B. Hladky
A Yale Study on Sugar and Our Brains Stirs Up Controversy By Gregory B. Hladky	Legally Bound: No One Knows How Many of the State's Notaries Are Criminals By Gregory B. Hladky
Can Jai Alai Make a Comeback in Connecticut? By Gregory B. Hladky	Connecticut's Exhaustive Rules Could Become a Model For Medical Marijuana By Gregory B. Hladky
Connecticut Businesses Get Labeled For Committing Immigration Offenses They Didn't Actually Do By Gregory B. Hladky	The State Reviews a New Proposal That Would Grant Driver's Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants By Gregory B. Hladky
A Little-Known Connecticut Group Works to Oppose Gun-Control Legislation By Gregory B. Hladky	Stolen History: Metal Thieves Swipe Connecticut's Plaques, Pipes, Landmarks and Statues By Gregory B. Hladky
A Silent Culture of Acceptance Surrounds the Use of ADHD Drugs on Campuses By Christopher Burns	Controversial Right-Wing Blogger Sues Connecticut State Officials By Gregory B. Hladky
Puerto Ricans Debate Whether to Become the 51st State By Wayne Jebian	McDonald Will Be First Openly Gay Member of CT Supreme Court By Gregory B. Hladky
The Room-Renting Website Airbnb is Growing in Popularity, But Some of the Rentals Might Not Be Legal By Gregory B. Hladky	Connecticut Needs to Deal With Its Feral Cat Problem By Gregory B. Hladky
Watch the NRA's Press Conference on the Newtown Shooting By CT.com Staff	The DOT Clears Timber Along the Merritt Parkway, But Some Worry About the Aesthetic Effect By Siobhan Crise
Lawmakers Debate the Safety of Driving With Earbuds By Gregory B. Hladky	Sweet-Tooth Tax: Should Consumers Have to Pay Extra For Candy And Soda? By Gregory B. Hladky
Educators Prepare For Mandated Change at Community Colleges By Wayne Jebian	Can Connecticut Afford to Hand Out $860 Million in Tax Incentives to Businesses Each Year? By Gregory B. Hladky
Yale Students Push For Divesting in Fossil Fuels By Gregory B. Hladky	Q Poll's Message To Republicans: Duh, Wake Up Dudes! By Gregory B. Hladky
Should Civilians Be Allowed to Carry Tasers? By Gregory B. Hladky	Connecticut's Tobacco is Considered to Be Some of the Finest in the World By Gregory B. Hladky
Connecticut Dairies Face an Uncertain Future. Will $7-a-Gallon Milk Help? By Gregory B. Hladky	The Millionaires' Curse: Will the State's GOP Continue Running Rich Losers? By Gregory B. Hladky
Will Executives Who Promised Layoffs After Obama's Re-election Follow Through on Those Threats? By Gregory B. Hladky	The Quixotic World of Connecticut's Boutique Bike-Makers By Gregory B. Hladky