HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned businesses Friday they will face sacrifices to help close the state budget deficit, but added that a new emphasis on smart investments and cooperative government offers light at the end of Connecticut’s dark economic tunnel. “There is no cavalry — except us,” Malloy told nearly 600 business leaders […]

The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate is seen as a bulwark against Republican efforts to undo health care reform, but Sen. Joseph Lieberman says that he is going into the debate with an “open mind” about what changes, if any, would make sense. Lieberman said he does not favor repealing the entire law, but he wants to […]

Special elections were scheduled today for Tuesday, Feb. 22 to fill vacancies left by the resignations of nine Democratic legislators, three in the Senate and six in the House. Six legislators resigned to take positions in the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, while two others quit to take other government jobs. The ninth, Sen. […]

After pledging during the campaign that he would maintain state funding for local education, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy backed off a bit Thursday, saying that is “a goal” that he will “try to accommodate.” “That’s a goal that I have in preparing a budget,” he said during his first press conference after taking office. “There […]

If state government hopes to finance a robust capital program that creates jobs, it has to stop using its credit card to cover day-to-day operating costs, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Thursday. Chatting with Capitol reporters one day after taking the oath of office, Malloy again insisted that Connecticut must maintain a “substantial competitive advantage” […]

In his first gubernatorial press conference, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today addressed matters of public policy, personal preference and realpolitik. First, the personal. It turns out he prefers Dannel to Dan, his nom de campaign. “My cards say Dannel. I insisted that we go back to my formal name, as opposed to Dan. I like […]

Susan Herbst, the first woman to be named president of the University of Connecticut, will take office later this year as the state and the university confront the most serious financial crisis in decades. In a wide-ranging telephone interview with The Mirror, Herbst talked about that challenge, as well as her views on high-profile athletic […]

As Congress gears up for another health reform fight and Connecticut lawmakers contemplate state-level reforms, a group of consumer and mental health advocates is trying to draw attention to a less-noticed federal law they say stands to benefit many state residents. The Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of […]

Gov. Dan Malloy balanced Connecticut’s past glories as an industrial and entrepreneurial power against the challenges of its contemporary fiscal crisis today in a State of the State address praised by fellow Democrats, opposition Republicans, business and organized labor. “I was impressed. I think it was a good start,” said House Minority Leader Lawrence F. […]

While Gov. Dan Malloy used his first executive order Wednesday to begin whipping Connecticut’s finances into shape, state legislators warned they aren’t ready to go cold turkey when it comes to budget gimmicks. And though Malloy kept a campaign pledge to begin the conversion to generally accepted accounting principles on Day One, he stretched that […]

WASHINGTON–Democrat Richard Blumenthal was sworn in as Connecticut’s junior U.S. Senator on Wednesday, joining a weakened Democratic majority and fulfilling his own lifelong political aspiration. Blumenthal took the oath of office at 12:10 p.m., with his hand on a weathered Bible he borrowed from a family friend. He was one of 13 new senators-but the […]

Dannel P. Malloy took office today as Connecticut’s 88th governor and its first Democratic chief executive in 20 years, assuming responsibility for a state with a stagnant economy, a historic deficit and an appetite for change at the start of a new decade. Under a vast skylight in the drill shed of the State Armory […]

Thank you all for joining me today and welcome to all of the distinguished public servants here, members of the clergy, other honored guests, my extended family, friends and all the citizens throughout our great state, a special mention to my great friend Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman, and a special mention to the former First […]