2010 News Archive For State Senator Gary LeBeau http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/rss/lebeau-news2010.xml http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:25:21 -0500 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:25:21 -0500 FeedForAll Mac v2.1 (2.1.0.1); http://www.FeedForAll.com/ State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) and Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that a $900,000 state grant to help East Hartford build or renovate a senior center is expected to gain approval when the state Bond Commission meets December 10. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-101202a.php 7482AECC-5D81-45F3-B99C-FDE3FDB86BCA-3526-00000E7CA05B9FAD-FFA Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:43:42 -0500 State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) and Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that a $600,000 state grant to help East Windsor rebuild the entrance to its industrial park is expected to gain approval when the state Bond Commission meets December 10. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-101202.php 72817347-1501-4A1B-816F-C1334760358F-3526-00000E762C5C81D9-FFA Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:43:09 -0500 State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) today took part in the groundbreaking ceremony for a new, $50 million motion picture film studio project that will create up to 500 jobs during construction and then as many as 1,650 production jobs and 45 full-time studio jobs with an annual payroll estimated at $114 million. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-101018.php E044D2A1-17C2-4ABC-A996-9F7198ADCC91-3526-00000E6EAF58A665-FFA Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:42:40 -0400 State Senator Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) and Dr. Stephen Muench of Kool Smiles today celebrated October as ‘National Dental Hygiene Month’ by arranging for all 537 kindergarten students in East Hartford to receive free dental hygiene kits containing a toothbrush, toothpaste and dental floss. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100930.php 3429C2DB-7103-40F7-BD95-12E382D654DF-3526-00000E66561F3085-FFA Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:42:07 -0400 With a $500,000 state grant essentially exhausted on repairing the exterior and basement of the historic Pinney House here, state Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) today toured the house with local officials to determine what it would take to refurbish the interior of what is the homestead of one of Ellington’s most illustrious and important town figures. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100914.php 9BF79FCB-3A0B-46CB-B740-005AC710569A-3526-00000E5EF741A838-FFA Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:41:31 -0400 Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) and Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) announced today that the State Bond Commission is expected to approve a combined $6.5 million in funding for various job-creation measures included in the Majority Leaders’ Job Growth Roundtable bill when it meets on August 11. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100804.php B75C5857-9523-45AD-A798-862D3F8575D4-3526-00000E552295AC2B-FFA Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:41:00 -0400 State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) has just returned from a three-day National Conference of State Legislatures summit in Louisville, Kentucky, where he took part in three panels examining the link between higher education and economic growth. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100729.php 57A64883-23FA-4D35-990A-85B5E040D709-3526-00000E4E35B6E8F7-FFA Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:40:17 -0400 State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) today voted to approve a new list of proposed federal Small Cities Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) programs, which includes $500,000 for street and drainage improvements in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of East Windsor and $300,000 for ‘multi-jurisdictional’ housing rehabilitation in Ellington, Somers and Suffield. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100630.php 610C3DC7-AEA9-469D-B28B-12B2EC3DF44F-3526-00000E4693DF8DAD-FFA Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:39:48 -0400 State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) today welcomed Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s ceremonial signing of the Bradley Development Zone bill at the Terminal A baggage claim area of Bradley International Airport, saying the high-profile event should bring much-needed notoriety to this pro-jobs, pro-business legislation. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100624.php 23007B71-A293-47CA-B185-E143704DB580-3526-00000E3E42FAF23F-FFA Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:39:14 -0500 State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) today congratulated the Connecticut IB Academy in East Hartford for placing 22nd in the nation--and the best of all Connecticut high schools--in Newsweek magazine’s annual ranking of "America’s Best High Schools." http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100616.php 182ADA6F-2CEF-45FB-8D0A-CE43C20C46D1-3526-00000E324F5498D3-FFA Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:38:38 -0400 State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) today welcomed news that another round of stem-cell research grants totaling $9.8 million has just been awarded by the state Department of Public Health, and he congratulated Democrats for protecting the very same grants that Gov. M. Jodi Rell recently sought to eliminate. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100610.php C738DFDB-E26C-4563-9933-C454EAB35027-3526-00000E2A112CB45D-FFA Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:37:47 -0400 A bill championed by state Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) which significantly streamlines the state Department of Environmental Protection’s permitting process for large economic development projects was signed into law by Gov. M. Jodi Rell this morning at a ceremony in Waterbury. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100609.php 43831546-554A-4283-8596-8E4186ED7C58-3526-00000E2127412089-FFA Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:37:07 -0400 State Senator Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) today joined Judge Kathleen McNamara as she was sworn into office by Governor M. Jodi Rell and became the first-ever female Superior Court judge from East Hartford. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100527.php C2ECFD8F-D189-46E6-8397-413037C30A8E-3526-00000E1986CF88D8-FFA Thu, 27 May 2010 14:36:34 -0400 State Senator Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford), the Senate Chairman of the Commerce Committee, issued the following statement today after attending Governor Rell’s signing of a major jobs bill, House Bill 5435, at Pegasus Manufacturing, Inc. in Middletown. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100512.php EAD7C93E-2450-497D-BD37-8A2A4D6143CD-3526-00000E102E9CBA74-FFA Wed, 12 May 2010 14:35:59 -0400 State Senator Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) today applauded the General Assembly’s confirmation of State’s Attorney Kathleen McNamara of East Hartford as a new judge of the Superior Court. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100505.php BDF17881-4625-4BA7-A981-5C8E189484B2-3526-00000DF1881B9169-FFA Wed, 05 May 2010 14:33:46 -0400 State Senators Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) and Ed Meyer (D-Guilford) this evening led final passage of a bill which significantly streamlines the state Department of Environmental Protection’s permitting process for large economic development projects, giving notice of the application’s shortcomings within 60 days and seeking to approve or deny the application within 180 days. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100505a.php F74A53EE-C308-432B-88FF-06BDB5FF2987-3526-00000DE851E86D04-FFA Wed, 05 May 2010 14:33:04 -0400 State Senator Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) led Senate passage this afternoon of a bill that will create Connecticut’s first-ever sports and marketing corporation, a corporation charged with promoting the state as a host for various sporting events, thereby bringing revenue and jobs to Connecticut at a time of high unemployment and shrinking income. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100503.php 9566F79E-6D9B-46DA-88BA-81E334B2BBF5-3526-00000DE02670244A-FFA Mon, 03 May 2010 14:32:28 -0400 State Senators Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) and John A. Kissel (R-Enfield) today praised the passage of SB- 107, An Act Establishing a Bradley Development Zone. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100501.php 2CF3B21A-F977-4E6E-9E72-05D2AF48DEA2-3526-00000DD8A18BE766-FFA Sat, 01 May 2010 14:31:54 -0400 State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) this evening unanimously led Senate passage of a comprehensive and far reaching jobs and economic development bill that reflects many of the pro-business legislative initiatives that Sen. LeBeau has been working toward over the past half-decade. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100501a.php BF7E7FAD-7ECE-4485-A5C4-0E073E6B24A8-3526-00000DCF9ED488DF-FFA Sat, 01 May 2010 14:31:14 -0400 Nearly two years after 19-year-old Nick Cohen of East Hartford died in an early morning motorcycle accident, a bill that would require mandatory motorcycle training for new riders was passed today in the state Senate with the help of Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford). http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100427.php 289B3274-4857-4147-A7F0-8B308419E21F-3526-00000DC7328C941E-FFA Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:30:42 -0400 State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) has been appointed by Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney (D-New Haven) to help lead legislative implementation of the economic recommendations in the new Majority Leaders’ Job Growth Roundtable—a wide-ranging series of proposals designed to jump-start job creation in Connecticut and lay the foundation for long-term prosperity. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100211.php 1D01AE1B-D838-41F7-B1D2-F0150ED15ACB-3526-00000DB4C24FBD46-FFA Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:30:08 -0500 A group of legislators, economic experts and businesspeople--including state Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) and led by House Majority Leader Denise Merrill (D-Mansfield) and Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney (D-New Haven)--today announced a series of recommendations designed to jump-start job creation in Connecticut and lay the foundation for long-term prosperity. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100202.php F6704DBC-4800-459B-A70E-9D9E5EA45A29-3526-00000DA4EA739DFE-FFA Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:28:44 -0500 Senate Democrats held a news conference at a drycleaners in West Hartford on Monday--two days before the 2010 legislative session begins--to announce a new plan to help small businesses protect and grow jobs. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100201.php D4FFE219-93A5-497C-A534-6D16CE4E64A6-3526-00000D9CA16E5111-FFA Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:27:41 -0500 State Sen. Gary D. LeBeau (D-East Hartford) cordially invites the residents of East Hartford, East Windsor, Ellington and South Windsor to participate in his upcoming senate district office hours, which will be held on Saturday, January 30 at the following times and locations: http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100122a.php 129BAFBC-E1B6-4219-AA8A-5208EC33EF2D-3526-00000D9664D993D5-FFA Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:27:06 -0500 A coalition of Senate Democrats again called on Governor M. Jodi Rell today to take action on a comprehensive plan that would put more than 16,000 people back to work at a time when the state’s unemployment rate stands at 8.9 percent. http://www.senatedems.ct.gov/pr/lebeau-100122.php BA6DB471-C943-4470-8D23-00E36457DFC7-3526-00000D7D9BC9987F-FFA Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:26:35 -0500