Scouting in Connecticut has experienced many organizational changes since 1910. With only eight counties,Connecticut has had 40 Boy Scout Councils since the Scouting movement began in 1910. In 1922,17 Boy Scout Councils existed in Connecticut,but currently only four exist. The Girl Scouts of the USA has had at least 53 Girl Scout Councils in Connecticut since their program began in 1912. Today there is one,Girl Scouts of Connecticut,which assumed operation on October 1,2007.
Cheshire,formerly known as New Cheshire Parish,is a town in New Haven County,Connecticut,United States. At the time of the 2020 census,the population of Cheshire was 28,733. The town is part of the Naugatuck Valley Planning Region. The center of population of Connecticut is located in Cheshire.
Wallingford is a town in New Haven County,Connecticut,United States,centrally located between New Haven and Hartford,and Boston and New York City. The town is part of the South Central Connecticut Planning Region. The population was 44,396 at the 2020 census. The community was named after Wallingford,in England.
The Quinnipiac River is a 45.5-mile (73.2 km) long river in the New England region of the United States,located entirely in the state of Connecticut.
Susan Bysiewicz is an American politician and attorney who is the 109th lieutenant governor of Connecticut,serving since January 9,2019. She previously served as the 72nd secretary of the state of Connecticut from 1999 to 2011. She was briefly a candidate for governor of Connecticut in 2010,before dropping out to run for Connecticut Attorney General. She was disqualified from running for the office by the Connecticut Supreme Court and announced in 2011 that she was running for the United States Senate in the 2012 election to replace the retiring Joe Lieberman. She lost the Democratic primary to U.S. Representative Chris Murphy,who went on to win the general election.
Yalesville is an unincorporated village in Wallingford,Connecticut,United States. The village was founded in 1677,and was originally called "First Falls". It was renamed Yalesville in 1808.
Censure is a formal,public,group condemnation of an individual,often a group member,whose actions run counter to the group's acceptable standards for individual behavior. In the United States,governmental censure is done when a body's members wish to publicly reprimand the president of the United States,a member of Congress,a judge or a cabinet member. It is a formal statement of disapproval. It relies on the target's sense of shame or their constituents' subsequent disapproval,without which it has little practical effect when done on members of Congress and no practical effect when done on the president.
Christopher Scott Murphy is an American lawyer,author,and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Connecticut since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served in the United States House of Representatives,representing Connecticut's 5th congressional district from 2007 to 2013. Before being elected to Congress,Murphy was a member of both chambers of the Connecticut General Assembly,serving two terms each in the Connecticut House of Representatives (1999–2003) and the Connecticut Senate (2003–2007).
Christopher G. Donovan is a former American Democratic politician who was elected to be the Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives. He was sworn in as Speaker on January 7,2009,and left his post in 2013,having not sought reelection to the House. He is the first grassroots organizer to become speaker of the Connecticut House.
Rashida Harbi Tlaib is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Michigan's 12th congressional district. She is the first Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress.
William A. Petit Jr. is an American former physician and politician. A Republican,he represented District 22 in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023. A former physician,he was the sole survivor of the 2007 Cheshire home invasion,in which his wife and two daughters were murdered.
Elizabeth Esty is an American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut's 5th congressional district from 2013 to 2019. A Democrat,she previously was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives,representing the 103rd Assembly District,which consisted of Cheshire and parts of Hamden and Wallingford. She also served two terms on the Cheshire Town Council. The 5th congressional district spans central and northwest Connecticut,including Waterbury,Danbury,New Britain,Meriden,Torrington,Litchfield County,the Farmington Valley,Newtown,and Esty's hometown of Cheshire.
Themis Klarides is an American attorney and politician from the state of Connecticut. She served in the Connecticut House of Representatives,serving as House Minority Leader from 2015 through 2021. In that position,she was the highest ranking woman in the legislature. She was also the first woman to lead Republican members in the House of Representatives.
The 2018 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut,concurrently with the election of Connecticut's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections. This race's Democratic margin of victory was the closest to the national average of 3.1 points.
Donald Trump's use of social media attracted attention worldwide since he joined Twitter in May 2009. Over nearly twelve years,Trump tweeted around 57,000 times,including about 8,000 times during the 2016 election campaign and over 25,000 times during his presidency. The White House said the tweets should be considered official statements. When Twitter banned Trump from the platform in January 2021 during the final days of his term,his handle @realDonaldTrump had over 88.9 million followers. On November 19,2022,Twitter's new owner,Elon Musk,reinstated his account,although Trump has stated he will not use it in favor of his own social media platform,Truth Social. The first tweet since 2021 was made in August 2023 about his mugshot from Fulton County Jail,but the account has since remained inactive.
The Connecticut General Assembly Conservative Caucus is a group of Connecticut legislators espousing a conservative political agenda.
Mount Carmel is a neighborhood in the northeastern portion of the town of Hamden,Connecticut. It was the site of the first meeting house in what is now Hamden. Its founders named the area due to the resemblance of a range of hills nearby to the Mount Carmel mentioned in the Bible. The hills are better known today as the Sleeping Giant,site of a large state park known for its system of hiking trails. The neighborhood also contains the principal campus of Quinnipiac University. It is primarily residential with single-family homes. Commercial development is mostly along its principal street,Whitney Avenue.
Liz Linehan is an American politician serving as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 103rd district. She assumed office in 2017.
Jim Lucas is an American politician and businessman serving as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from the 69th district. He assumed office on November 7,2012.
Connecticut's 90th House of Representatives district elects one member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. It encompasses Middlefield and parts of Wallingford. It has been represented by Republican Craig C. Fishbein since 2017.
