Gov.-elect Dan Malloy has spent the better part of the last year trying to navigate between a political rock and a fiscal hard place. On one side there’s a general public wary of the next major state tax hike, state employee unions still smarting from 2009 concessions, and a host of other special interests fearful […]

Former U.S. Rep. William Ratchford, a former state House speaker from Danbury who later represented western Connecticut in Congress, was remembered Sunday by Attorney General-elect George Jepsen as “a kind, compassionate man” and an advocate for high ethical standards in government. Ratchford, 76, died Sunday in Arlington, Va., from complications from Parkinson’s disease. Jepsen said […]