Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced today that Connecticut has joined with other states and the federal government in a preliminary agreement with Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation to settle allegations involving illegal off-label drug marketing and kickback…
Hartford Courant and Fox 61 top editor Jeffrey Levine has been fired, publisher Richard Graziano confirmed today in a short statement to the news staff. Courant/Fox61 Publisher Graziano is scheduled to meet this afternoon with…
Hartford Courant and Fox 61 top editor Jeffrey Levine was supposedly told today that his job was eliminated according to several Courant sources.
The sources said that Levine was called into publisher Richard Graziano’s fourth floor suite this morning where he was told that his job was eliminated. The two had apparently been fighting over staffing issues.
As we in the media know, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal normally just can’t get enough television coverage.
But for some unexplained reason, Blumenthal, who entertained veterans at small gatherings by making up stories about having been a combat Marine in Vietnam, decided to be shy when Australian television showed up at his Hartford offices to film “Heroes, Frauds and Imposters,” which focus on three American politicians who used false military claims to be more admired.
Under pressure from state Attorneys General, Craigslist Wednesday confirmed that it has permanently shut down its “adult services” section. However, a company spokesman defended the site’s activities as “one of the few bright spots” in…
For those following the legal twists and turns in my wrongful termination suit agaist The Courant I am providing this update. As promised everything that I can legally disclose will be disclosed. The next oral…
I first met Dr. Kathleen Cairns, Psy.D at a Caribean airport where my friend Frank Morgan (better known in West Hartford by his alias Marcus Franklin). She was standing behind us going through customs and I asked her where she was from.
Kathleen said Connecticut. I then asked where? She humored me and said West Hartford. I again asked where? She humored me some more and gave me her street name. I explained that I lived one block away.
Under pressure from state Attorneys General, Craigslist has replaced the adult services section with the word censored, CNN reported today. “It was not immediately clear whether Craigslist removed the adult services and replaced them with…
My old employer – The Hartford Courat – on the day it celebrates its founder, again publishes a full-page ad that boosts its revenues at the expense of its readers.
I wonder how the management explains how it can claim be a friend to consumers with its daily consumer tips and then run ads that it knows are false and knows it is helping to rip off its readers.
Today we posted Kevin Szymanski’s 29th training video, this time focusing on the back, core and a little aerobic exercise. Again, it’s important to check with your doctor if you have not been working out…
The call from Tyler was scary. He had been in a car accident in a rental car in Montreal and needed money to pay an attorney and fly home. Dorothy Cheo, 81, of Niantic, was…
While no one is recommending super dosing Vitamin D or burning to a crisp oiled up, more health officials believe that higher dosage of the vitamin can have positive effect against cancer, heart disease and…
My attorney Joseph Garrison of New Haven has filed documents in Hartford Superior Court notifying Judge Marshall Berger that the Courant “has furnished almost no discovery” despite legal requirements that it do so. So far…
In the summer of 1965 I began my newspaper (other than delivering the Ames Daily Tribune and the Des Moines Register) career at the Norwalk Hour as a galley boy. My summer job was to…
Arnie Kozak, Ph.D. a clinical psychologist, meditation instructor, and author, is joining CtWatchdog.com as a blogger. He has published Wild Chickens and Petty Tyrants: 108 Metaphors for Mindfulness (Wisdom, 2009). He also the founder of…
Wells Fargo & Co., which started a national bank scheme 9 years ago, was told last week to repay its customers more than $200 million in fees it took as part of its “unfair and…
Another symptom of what is wrong with our education system: Stupid teachers. Honest to God, teachers in Milwaukee have launched a fight for Viagra drug coverage. AP Reporter Ryan J. Foley wrote that despite a…
Under new regulations adopted by the Federal Trade Commission, for-profit debt settlement companies will no longer be allowed to collect fees for their services until they have settled some or all of a consumer’s debt….
Instead of grandstanding for public relations purposes as he runs for the U.S. Senate, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal might want to reorder his priorities so that his staff focuses on complaints that actually impact his…