February 10, 2011 @ 12:00 am

While Gov. Dannel P. Malloy insists that any income tax increase used to close the budget deficit can’t sacrifice Connecticut’s competitive advantage over its neighbors, a progressive coalition asserted Thursday that the state must forfeit some of that edge to spare vital programs from “devastating” cuts. The centerpiece of the Better Choices for Connecticut coalition’s […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Thursday released his third consolidation proposal in as many days: Take 81 agencies and reduce them by nearly one-third to 57. His announcement leaves unclear how many of the consolidations simply reflect changes on a flow chart, as opposed to a new focus in operations. “This is a large shake-up, […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today named Daniel C. Esty, a Yale professor with a national reputation for reconciling environmentalism and economic growth, as his choice to run a new Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Daniel C. Esty Esty, 51, an energy adviser to Barack Obama’s campaign and transition team, is the author of nine […]

As Gov. Dannel P. Malloy rolls out a string of agency consolidations and other steps to shrink state government, he is executing a plan to establish his credentials as a budget cutter before proposing $1.7 billion in tax increases next week. Malloy announced two major agency consolidations plans in two days this week, with a […]

Timothy F. Bannon, the governor’s chief of staff, has written to the recipients of low-digit license plates whose names were disclosed to a blogger and columnist, apparently in violation of a state privacy law. In a letter that presumably went to former Gov. M. Jodi Rell — the identities of the recipients of the letters […]

Rich Harris, a former Associated Press editor who worked in Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s press office for six years, was dismissed today from his press job in the state Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. Malloy’s press office, which praised Harris for his work during the recent series of storm emergencies, could not immediately […]

As Republicans in Congress begin an effort to roll back the Environmental Protection Agency’s efforts to regulate greenhouse, Democrats released documents this week showing that President George W. Bush’s EPA administrator also favored regulation. Stephen L. Johnson wrote Bush a letter in 2008 saying the carbon dioxide posed a  danger to the country under the […]

In a scandal notable only for its rapid denouement, U.S. Rep. Christopher Lee, R-NY, resigned Wednesday night just hours after the website Gawker reported that he had been trolling Craig’s List for dates. Lee’s speedy departure is the latest in a series of hasty exits just as scandals are heating up, Politico reports. Ex-Rep. Eric […]