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		<title>Blumenthal Urges FDA To Adopt Uniform Foos Labeling</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/29/blumenthal-urges-fda-to-adopt-uniform-foos-labeling</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Richard Blumenthal urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) &#8212; as it considers adopting a uniform food labeling program &#8212; to ensure that it provides unbiased nutritional information and encourages food manufacturers to offer healthier products. The FDA has proposed developing a national voluntary front-of-package food labeling program. In formal comments filed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conn Humane Society Hires New Director, Gives Little Detail</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/28/conn-humane-society-hires-new-director-gives-little-detail</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The troubled Connecticut Humane Society has hired a new director, replacing Richard Johnston who was forced to quit  following allegations of wrongdoing from former staff members. Gordon G. Willard, the society told workers, has been selected as the new executive director, starting  August 5. The 130-year-old charity gave little details today on Willard. It did not state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfalfa Sprouts From Specialty Farms Recalled</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/26/alfalfa-sprouts-from-specialty-farms-recalled</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. today is warning consumers that Specialty Farms, LLC is voluntarily recalling Specialty Farms brand Organic Alfalfa Sprouts Blend and Organic Sprout Salad in the northeastern United States due to a possible health risk. “These items, which have a sell-by date of 7/26/2010 and are in 4-ounce plastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Closed on the U.S. Attorney Firings? Really? DOJ’s Political ‘Purge’ and Torture Probers Suppressed Evidence In Connecticut Crime Case</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/26/case-closed-on-the-u-s-attorney-firings-really-doj%e2%80%99s-political-%e2%80%98purge%e2%80%99-and-torture-probers-suppressed-evidence-in-connecticut-crime-case</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kreig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four days before Connecticut's Nora Dannehy was appointed to investigate the Bush administration’s U.S. attorney firing scandal, a team of lawyers she led was found to have illegally suppressed evidence in a major political corruption case. Andrew Kreig, who covered Connecticut's federal courts for the Hartford Courant from 1976 to 1981, today reveals that the previously unreported fact from Dannehy's past calls her entire national investigation into question. The revelations similarly compromise the pending investigation by her Connecticut colleague, John Durham, who since 2008 has been the nation's special prosecutor for DOJ and CIA decision-making involving torture.]]></description>
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		<title>New Condo Rules In Conn Helps Owners Learn What Their Associations Are Up To</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/24/new-condo-rules-in-conn-helps-owners-learn-what-their-associations-are-up-to</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an estimated 250,000 condominium owners in Connecticut, this month will be remembered as the watershed time when unprecedented legal protections went into effect. Thanks to legislation adopted by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell, the playing field &#8211; according to state Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. –  for condo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unlicensed Sign Lite Electric Workers From North Haven Arrested</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/23/unlicensed-sign-lite-electric-workers-from-north-haven-arrested</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A case investigated by the Department of Consumer Protection’s occupational enforcement unit led to the arrest on July 13, 2010 of four people working for Sign Lite Inc., a company at 6 Corporate Drive, North Haven. The allegations are unlicensed electrical sign work performed or directed at the Milford Mall in July of 2009. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blumenthal Concedes He &#8220;Misstated&#8221; His Military Record</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/21/blumenthal-concedes-he-misstated-his-military-record</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While most Connecticut journalists have given state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal the benefit of the doubt by using the work misspeak when referring to his false claims to have been in Vietnam, Blumenthal did concede last week that he &#8220;misstated&#8221; his military record on several occasions. While the two words may seem similar, there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blumenthal Identifies States In Google Investigation, But Offers No Proof As To When They Joined Him</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/21/blumenthal-identifies-states-in-google-investigation-but-offers-no-proof-as-to-when-they-joined-him</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today named some of the states that have joined his investigation into Google&#8221;s Street View production. However, his office has yet to provide any evidence that any of those states had actually asked him to head the probe 30 days ago when he announced his multi-state investigation. I have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blumenthal Opposes Lobster Fishing Moratorium</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/20/blumenthal-opposes-lobster-fishing-moratorium</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today urged the American Lobster Management Board to reject a broad moratorium on lobster fishing that could potentially devastate commercial lobster fishermen, wholesalers and retailers in Connecticut. The board will meet Thursday to consider a five-year moratorium on all lobster fishing south of Cape Cod, including Long Island Sound, after a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blumenthal: Chief Marketing And Press Officer, Not CEO</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/19/blumenthal-chief-marketing-and-press-officer-not-ceo</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some, the unprecedented public release of a sensitive document from the the personnel file of a Connecticut assistant attorney general raises the question of whether Richard Blumenthal or his cronies tried to improperly bury a critic who claimed that Blumenthal has been lying about serving in Vietnam for 18 or so years. To me, [...]]]></description>
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