April 19, 2011

Connecticut education officials have given the state’s for-profit colleges a vote of confidence, but leaders elsewhere have questions, David Harrison reports at Stateline.org. Last year the federal Education Department began drafting new regulations to govern for-profit higher education institutions following a report that found the the schools misled students about graduation and job placement rates […]

University of Connecticut Provost Peter J. Nicholls has announced an immediate hiring freeze of all non-teaching staff to help cut a $46 million deficit facing the university. “I have informed the deans that searches for non-teaching staff will be placed on hold until such time as we have a chance to discuss their plans,” he […]

With his 50th birthday coming up fast (Aug. 4, according to his Hawaiian birth certificate) President Barack Obama has taken to musing on middle age, Amie Parnes reports at Politico. “We’ve been governing for 2½ years,” Obama told supporters on a conference call this month. “I don’t look that young anymore. I’m grayer, I have […]

Even for a small state, where politicians understand that yesterday’s opponent might be tomorrow’s ally, this one is a bit of a head-scratcher: Rob Simmons is volunteering to help U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal reach out to Vietnam veterans. Simmons, a Republican former congressman and Vietnam veteran who ran for the U.S. Senate last year, says […]

WASHINGTON–The Supreme Court waded into the political and environmental thicket of global warming Tuesday, in a case that will determine whether Connecticut and other states can force power plants to reduce their heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. The line of questioning from the justices did not point to any easy conclusions about how they might rule […]

The legislature’s Republican minority offered a no-tax alternative to Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget today in which the goodies are obvious and served in big portions, but most of the bitter medicine comes in smaller doses spread throughout their spending plan. The GOP says its plan would eliminate the state’s projected $3.2 billion deficit without a […]

One prominent doctor called it the greatest risk to health. Another called it a threat to national security. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal called it a scandal. The topic at a town hall meeting in Hartford Tuesday wasn’t cancer, radiation or any other medical concern that frequently makes headlines. It was health disparities, the well–documented but […]