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Some Win, Some Lose

If you're a full-time employee of the Hartford Courant the days of the free subscription to the newspaper are officially gone. The print edition...

Our Pledge to You, Our Readers

If Attorney General Richard Blumenthal gets into the Governor's race, we at The Laurel pledge to personally cater the Christmas, Hanukkah or other holiday...

Power Pal

Philadelphia Magazine's November cover story is "The Power Fifty", and guess who's among the city's most influential Philadelphians? Our friend Jeff Cole, former WFSB...

The Connecticut Mirror

This morning the WNPR program "Where We Live" included some political types talking about -- what else? -- Governor Rell's exit from the 2010...

Tomorrow on Oprah

Charla Nash, the Stamford woman who was attacked by a chimp and criticially injured, is scheduled to appear on Oprah this Wednesday, 11/11.

Tweeting the Rell Story

A friend of The Laurel sent us a recap of how the Rell story played out on the breaking news tool of 2009, Twitter....

When "The Big One" Hits…

We at The Laurel aren't big on assessing "who got the story on air" first;  it seems to us it's more important to get...

46 Minutes

That's how much time most of the news media were given to assemble for Governor Rell's momentous Monday news conference announcing she won't seek...

Local Boy Makes Good

First District Congressman John Larson (far right) pictured on the front page of the  Sunday New York Times.

George Gombossy Wins National Consumer Advocacy Award

The National Association of Consumer Advocates is an organization of attorneys who represent clients dealing with consumer fraud issues. George Gombossy, editor of CTWatchdog.com...