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The highly controversial bill to allow drivers' licenses for undocumented immigrants became more controversial Wednesday.An obscure sentence that was buried in a detailed "implementer'' bill would have unexpectedly changed the effective date of the drivers' license program - meaning that the program would start in less than a month on July 1. In lengthy debates on the House and Senate floor, legislators said the state motor vehicles department needed until January 2015 to prepare for a major change that would mark the first time in state history that the immigrants could obtain licenses.The switch set off a mad scramble at...

One troubling political trend is the proliferation of state politicians who treat private companies as honey pots for their personal ambitions. Last week two of the worst practitioners -- Connecticut Treasurer Denise Nappier and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal -- got a welcome rebuke from a jury of their betters. A six-person Connecticut jury ruled that New York financier Theodore Forstmann and his buyout firm, Forstmann Little & Co., owed the state nothing for having lost $125 million of its money investing in telecom companies. While the jury found them guilty of violating a couple of details of their investment contract...