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Edith G. Prague, a flinty and fierce defender of older Americans and low-wage workers as a lawmaker and commissioner, died Thursday.

Edith Prague, a 30-year member of the state House, then Senate, was also a two-time state...

Edith Prague, a 30-year member of the state House, then Senate, was also a two-time state...

Edith Prague, a 30-year member of the state House, then Senate, was also a two-time state...

COLUMBIA, Conn. (AP) — Former State Sen. Edith Prague, who twice served as...

Edith Prague, a 30-year member of the state House, then Senate, was also a two-time state...

Edith Prague, a 30-year member of the state House, then Senate, was also a two-time state...

Edith Prague, a 30-year member of the state House, then Senate, was also a two-time state...

There was a time years ago when Norwich’s political power was held almost exclusively by the Irish, the vast majority of whom were Democratic men.

In March 2012, six state senators and Gov. Dannel Malloy’s criminal justice point person, Michael Lawlor, visited two prisons: Northern Correctional Institution, a “supermax” prison where the men on death row were incarcerated, and MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, the largest maximum security prison in New England. The goal: to convince lawmakers on the fence — all Democrats  — to vote to repeal the death penalty. The legislature had already sent a bill to end capital pu...