Thanks to the Consumerist.com for helping former used car salesman Alan Slone spill his guts about a “classic dealership technique used to addle your mind and empty your wallet.” “It’s called “The Four Square” and…
The public and the staff of the nation’s oldest newspaper of continuous circulation might be interested to know that The Courant’s legal position is that it was has the right to fire a columnist if…
CNBC just reported that Toyota Motor Corp. is being fined a record $16 million fine for failing to issue timely recalls of defective vehicles. The fine from the national safety board may make it easier…
The majority of those who worked for Richard Johnston, who for 20 years was director and chairman of the Connecticut Humane Society, found him to be mean-spirited, arrogant, obnoxious with little love for the thousands…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said today that his investigation into Sleepy’s has not produced any evidence that the nation’s largest retailer of mattresses has been systematically selling returned mattresses as new. Nor has Blumenthal…
Avon Republican Attorney Martha Dean is campaigning for state attorney general on an anti-Blumenthal platform. Dean, who had run unsuccessfully against state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in 2002, is still fighting him even though Blumenthal…
Three months after CtWatchdog began publishing accusations of wrongdoing against the full-time president and chairman of the board of the Connecticut Humane Society, Richard Johnston has resigned under tremendous pressure. Facing investigation by the state…
Normally standing between Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and a television camera is as dangerous as walking among a herd of elephants during mating season. But when the candidate for U.S. Senate was offered an…
New Haven lawyer Joseph Garrison Monday filed his brief opposing a motion to strike by lawyers for The Courant and the Tribune Co., who have asked the Superior Court to dismiss my wrongful discharge suit….
Revelations about The Hartford Courant’s high rate structure for mandatory public advertisements continue, with an East Hartford lawyer claiming that he had to pay a higher fee for a Courant legal notice than for any…
Connecticut judicial officials are preparing to pressure The Courant into providing lower rates for foreclosure advertisements or face the loss of more than $1 million a year in advertising revenue. Hartford County Superior Court Judge…
Victims of foreclosure in Central Connecticut are required to pay The Hartford Courant at least twice as much for foreclosure ads as what real estate agents are charged for similarly sized ads. Real estate attorneys…
CtNewsJunkie.com reports that Journal Inquirer of Manchester moved its plagiarism lawsuit against the Hartford Courant from state to federal court after The Courant sought to dismiss the suit in Superior Court on the grounds that…
Despite that fact that Connecticut newspapers in general are avoiding writing about what their publishers consider to be a huge issue for democracy, the truth is starting to come out. CtMirror.org, a new online political…
For several days I have been wondering about why the Hartford Courant and other daily newspapers are so worked up about the possibility of losing money from municipal public notices. Neither the Connecticut Council Of…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Amey Marrella announced today a $1.8 million settlement with an industrial laundry facility for emitting toxic substances that threatened public health. Blumenthal sued G&K…
This may come as a surprise to many of you – it certainly did to me – that stores in Connecticut are permitted to sell used mattresses and box springs without disclosing that they are…
While I am sure that small package store owners are wonderful people, I can’t figure out why governments should be protecting them. The only reason that Connecticut forbids alcohol sale Sundays, after 8 p.m., on…
The Hartford Courant is continuing its campaign to defeat proposed legislation that would permit towns to save millions of dollars in advertising costs by posting legal notices on government sites instead of in daily newspapers….
I am nominating my old employer – The Hartford Courant – for the Chutzpah Award in advertising for 2010 for its full-page ad today asking readers to contact their state legislators. Why? Well it seems…