Politics

A brief moment's reflection for victims of terrorism in Boston coincided Monday with a long-awaited groundbreaking in Hartford for a monument honoring Connecticut war veterans, a roster covering 1.3 million living and dead.

Current events intruded on history as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy led a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m., precisely one week after the first of two bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon, killing three, wounding scores and unsettling millions.

Bipartisanship, we hardly knew ye.

Hartford's flirtation with inter-party cooperation ended Friday as the General Assembly returned to the fiscal crisis, an issue expected to dominate the remaining six weeks of the 2013 session and the 2014 race for governor.

After months of coping with the Newtown school massacre, which yielded a gun-control law praised for its scope and bipartisanship, the Appropriations Committee's revisions to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget Friday marked a reboot of the annual session.

Before the federal government will release any of the $71 million in Storm Sandy relief it has apportioned for Connecticut, the state must seek public comment on its plan to use the funds.

Gov. Dannel Malloy's office released that plan today.

“This funding isn’t just about getting people’s lives back to normal following the devastation that occurred last year,” Malloy said in a press release.  “It’s also about making sure that when things are rebuilt, it’s done in a way that makes them more resilient to future storms."