M. Jodi Rell News

Gov. M. Jodi Rell's announcement earlier this month that she wants to close a prison raises important practical and public policy questions.

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This month, the most popular governor in the history of Connecticut, Jodi Rell, announced that she would forgo another term in office in the hyped 2010 elections.

Kevin O'Connor, a Republican former U.S. attorney and former associate U.S. attorney general, said Thursday he will not run for governor, a decision that reshapes what is expected to be a hard-fought contest to replace Gov.

Connecticut lawmakers learned that the state's budget woes may get much worse in 2012, possibly growing to $3.4 billion from the current $385 million.

Sen. Joe Lieberman's threat to filibuster any health care bill with a public option could kill health reform this year - and embolden Democratic challengers who'd like to send him packing in 2012.

Rell: Starwood Hotels & Resorts to relocate global headquarters to Stamford Staff Reports STAMFORD -- Gov.

Congressional Quarterly Politics predicts the GOP may pick up governor seats in Kansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee in 2010 while the Democrats may take control in California, Hawaii and Vermont and seven are tossups.

It could be considered the "perfect storm" for Connecticut's fledgling public campaign finance system, and it may not be survivable.

M. Jodi Rell didn't set out to be governor. To know Jodi Rell is to understand that she would have served her community and her state with or without a title.

NEW HAVEN a ' The family of a Yale student found stabbed to death off campus in 1998 has learned that DNA evidence in the unsolved murder was contaminated by a former forensic lab worker.

Who is M. Lisa Moody ? Anyone who cast a vote for Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell , of Brookfield, over the last 15 years also elected Moody, her powerful, little known chief of staff and longtime friend who has been embroiled in a recent controversy surrounding a taxpayer-funded study to streamline government.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell has bowed out of the 2010 governor's race and Connecticut's political world has been thrown into a refreshing chaos.

The decision of Gov. M. Jodi Rell does not come as a surprise; what might be surprising is announcing it with another year to go in her term.

On the streets of New Haven, the newly energized governor's race entered the tongue-twister phase.

Governor M. Jodi Rell is scheduled to make Newtown one of her first last stops as Connecticut's Governor.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell abruptly announced this afternoon that she won't seek reelection next year to another term, a decision that is likely to leave her Connecticut Republican Party lurching in search of a replacement and state Democrats drooling at the prospect of their first gubernatorial victory since 1986.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday called for an immediate resumption of peace talks with Palestinians and pledged more steps to improve economic conditions in Palestinian areas.

She shopped at the Brookfield Market, where her signed, framed photograph hangs over the meat counter.

The list is growing for Republicans and Democrats wanting to be Connecticut's next Governor.