Under Rowland's stewardship, Connecticut has adopted a tough welfare reform law that limits benefits to 21 months, a new death penalty law and a law requiring communities to be notified when sex offenders are released from prison. But he was embarrassed politically last spring when a much-publicized deal to get pro football's New England Patriots to relocate to Hartford from Foxboro, Mass. fell through. For All Connecticut Data Click below for specific categories. It s still out there, as fresh in the minds of many Americans as the memories of this morning s traffic jam. Lawmakers and governors in at least two dozen states made proposals to deal with the issue this year.
Action is still possible in several, but so far only a few have followed through.
By John Nagy, Staff Writer, Stateline.org Land Use , Growth Management New Research Rekindles Cigarette Tax Debate With 3,000 kids in the U.S. becoming regular smokers each day, anti-tobacco groups want state legislators to up the cigarette tax so that smoking is soon out of the reach of kids and teens. Tobacco manufacturers say that taxing the product is unfair to adults who choose to smoke. In addition, industry officials say there's no related reduction in youth smoking just because of a price increase. Click on headline for full story in new browser window. The state House of Representatives approved a measure Tuesday that would vastly extend the statute of limitations on criminal prosecution of child molesters, but the vote left questions about whether the change could be applied retroactively or not.