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For decades, drinking was commonplace at the state Capitol as lawmakers and state employees attended various alcohol-related receptions and held a major party at the end of the session that often last...

While longtime Connecticut lawmakers say that the merriment has been sharply curtailed, the recent arrest of a state legislator on drunken driving charges has raised questions and increased scrutiny about drinking at the Capitol.

Robert Ward, House GOP leader at critical time in CT, dies Robert Ward speaking on the House floor. Robert M. Ward, an unassuming leader of the House Republican minority who rose above partisanship at crucial junctures, helping to fund the reimagining of the University of Connecticut’s dowdy campus in 1995 and to nudge a corrupt governor from office in 2004, died Sunday in hospice care at his home in North Branford. He was 68. A kidney transplanted from his brother gave him a decade of good h...