Wesleyan University-- notable for its beautiful campus, inspiring teaching staff, and carefully-cultivated crop of the generation's next leaders-- is about to be known mainly for having a sexy sex magazine filled with nude students and tips on buying condoms, among other "controversies.&quo...

Swing State Project's DavidNYC has a new poll from Quinnipiac University testing incumbent Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd - the longest-serving United States Senator in Connecticut history - against former CT-02 Rep. Rob Simmons, who lost reelection to Democrat Joe Courtney in 2006, as well as two othe...

Soon after Judy Aron, a Connecticut homeschool mom who blogs at Consent of the Governed blogged about how the recession may affect homeschoolers she was contacted by a journalist and interviewed. The resulting article can be read here: Amid hard times, homeschooling families persist by David Crary J...

The Republican long knives are out for Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd, whose favorability in the Nutmeg State has been dropping since he moved his family to Iowa as part of his quixotic presidential campaign...and Dodd's position as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee during the financial crisis, ...

While I don’t have any particular plan to take a break, it seem clear that blogging is on some sort of hiatus for me. I’ve been very busy and, when I have free time, am choosing to do other things. Beyond that, I’ve also realized that I’m not sure what I want to have as the p...

It has been another week preoccupied with computer programming, although I did get a chance to participate in some social media activities this week, as well as get through at least a little bit of my email. It started off with a few messages that I sent out from the Woodbridge Board of Education me...

  Katie Rees, Miss Nevada USA 2007, who was stripped of her crown following this and other "scandalous photos" Let me tell you something about Hartford, Connecticut, the city, I, Scanner Brian was born in. Actually, better yet, let's not tell you anything about Hartford, Connectic...

Miss Connecticut Outstanding Teen, 17 year old Rachael Ramonas threw a drinking party on Saturday night that resulted in more than two dozen teens being charged with underage drinking. An anonymous tip alerted Wolcott police Capt. Domenic Angiolillo, who responded with other officers to the Ramonas ...

In one of its biggest regular season home games in years, Marquette (23-4, 12-2) will look to deliver an emphatic statement to the BIG EAST on Wednesday night when UConn pays a visit to the Bradley Center. Already with four seasons of at least 10 wins in BIG EAST play, the Three Amigos have another ...

Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun got into a little spat with a member of the Green Party this weekend over how much he makes. Is there some way they could both lose this argument? The dispute arose when "freelance journalist" Ken Krayeske opened Calhoun's post-game press conference on Saturd...