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...once formidable steel, automobile and rubber products sectors have seen plant after plant close down, move overseas and not return. Ohio was in Republican hands for much of the 1980s and 1990s; it lacks the broad vein of white, affluent liberals that have helped lift Obama to victories in Connecticut or Maryland; in Ohio, affluent whites tend to be Republican. In 2006, the state elected its first Democratic governor, Ted Strickland, in a generation. Most polls, at the present time, show Clinton 10 to 20 points ahead in Ohio, and Clinton was in Youngstown Tuesday night to try and widen...
...Freedom of Information Commission of Connecticut voted unanimously Wednesday to subject the Yale University Police Department to the same rules as public police departments after a New Haven public defender argued that the police have been exhibiting a double standard in their arrests...
...Yale police, for their part, may face broader disclosure requirements than HUPD due to differences between Massachusetts and Connecticut laws. “Connecticut law defines a public [agency] differently than Massachusetts law, by including within its rubric non-public agencies that are the functional equivalent of a public agency,” said Robert A. Bertsche, The Crimson’s attorney, in an e-mailed statement...
...with a deeper understanding or an enduring passion, the ones we come back to visit years after graduating, the educators who opened doors and altered the course of our lives. I was lucky enough to encounter two such teachers my senior year in a public high school in Connecticut. Dr. Cappel told us from the outset that his goal was not to prepare us for the AP biology exam; it was to teach us how to think like scientists, which he proceeded to do with a quiet passion, mainly in the laboratory. Mrs. Hastings, my stern, Radcliffe-trained English teacher...
According to Day—who said she worked on the previous Higher Education Act as a staff member with Senator Christopher J. Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat—many of the draft bill’s provisions are aimed primarily at state and public institutions. However, Day said that the financial aid elements are of particular relevance to Harvard students, since many rely on Pell grants for tuition...