The news stories that everybody is talking about

Everybody's Talking About...

• Investigations are underway into the Kleen Energy Systems explosion on Feb. 7 that killed five men.

• Susan Bysiewicz, still the frontrunner in the race for state attorney general, may have used her office database inappropriately for fundraising purposes — a scandal eerily similar to the one that got Gov. Jodi Rell's righthand woman Lisa Moody scolded and suspended.

• Jim Calhoun is back coaching UConn Huskies basketball. The team lost four of the seven games he missed during his medical leave. Walk it off, Calhoun!

• At press time, Middlebury's Katie Stevens still in the running on "American Idol." Avon's Allen Burton is not, though he did get the honor of a televised rebuke from Simon Cowell.

Insider Baseball

• Conn.'s Republican candidates for U.S. Senate — Linda McMahon, Peter Schiff and Rob Simmons — have a cordial "forum" (don't call it a debate!) in Canton, their first such face-off.

• Both Republican Gov. Jodi Rell and a group of Dems propose college tuition assistance for unemployed Conn. residents. Typically, they can't agree on how to do it, who'll pay or who specifically it will serve. They teach diplomacy in college, too, you know.

• New Haven Board of Education rapidly approves $324 million school budget, without bothering to hold a public hearing. Superintendent Mayo suggests there'll be no teacher layoffs — any staff reductions should be covered by attrition.

Sensational!

• Yale's healthy-eating activist Kelly Brownell isn't shouting in the wilderness anymore: Michele Obama announced a national campaign to curb childhood obesity.

• WTNH weatherman Geoff Fox's on-air apology for overguesstimating his storm forecast goes viral. Sorta — if 546 views on YouTube means going viral. The genuinely extreme snowfall elsewhere, scientists hasten to clarify, does not conflict with global warming data — it fits an established pattern found in many climate models.

May Get Interesting

• Millstone in Waterford announces layoffs; says they'll still have a larger staff than the nuclear power plant industry average.

• Democrats in D.C. write campaign reform bill to avert the potential for corporate abuse of political ads, while also respecting the feelings of free-speech absolutists (those pesky Supreme Court magistrates amongst them).

• Iraq orders hundreds of Blackwater-connected security guards to leave the country. So they can feel more secure.

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