July 2011

More than 9,500 people enrolled in the state-run Charter Oak Health Plan will see their premiums jump by at least 45 percent and possibly as much as 67 percent starting Sept. 1 as the state cuts its subsidies for the program. The premium increases stem from the cost of health care claims in the program […]

Medicare turns 46 Saturday, and on Friday, Hartford Hospital and Aetna commemorated the role of the two city institutions in launching the program, with an event that was part history lesson, part appreciation for the insurance program and, at least for the politicians invited, part opportunity to bash proposals to change Medicare. Aetna was an […]

The leader of Connecticut’s right-to-know agency for three decades, who called Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plan to merge nine watchdog groups “a disaster” when it was proposed, is one of five finalists to head the unified Office of Governmental Accountability. Mitchell W. Pearlman, who retired in 2005 after 30 years with the Freedom of Information […]

WASHINGTON–Connecticut’s got nothing on Washington when it comes to budgetary uncertainty and legislative double-takes. Thursday’s on-again, off-again vote in the U.S. House on a Republican debt-ceiling plan underscored the ambiguity about how, or whether, lawmakers in Washington will be able to resolve the current debt-ceiling standoff. But amid the chaos, one thing is pretty clear: […]

Todd was agitated, and the effort of the staff at Riverview Hospital to calm him down weren’t having any effect. As the confrontation escalated, aides did what they were trained to do: physically restrain him, face down against the floor, in hopes that would defuse the situation. But as in many similar cases, during the […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy gave a quick lesson today in how to keep a cute story about a small gaffe from turning into a problem. The story: the governor, or more accurately, his state police driver, got a $30 parking ticket Thursday in New Haven Naturally, the ticket was the second topic raised at a […]

The state’s bipartisan auditors warned this week that technical issues with state government’s core financial computer network “represent a significant problem” for the conversion to a more transparent and accountable budgeting system, but Comptroller Kevin Lembo said the issues are “fixable.” Auditors John C. Geragosian and Robert M. Ward also warned that the failure to […]

Standing outside the State Capitol Thursday, with about 50 vocational-technical school students, parents and teachers, Darlene Riquier said they can’t help but feel like their schools are being unfairly targeted for cuts. “It’s been a constant slap in the face to these kids,” said the mother of a senior at Windham Tech and president of […]

He is low in the polls, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says he definitely is running again–about 25 minutes a day, five to seven times a week. The political stuff is a decision for another day. Malloy, who turned 56 a week ago, has managed to resume an exercise routine disrupted by 24/7 campaigning last […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says the challenge of winning ratification of a new concession deal is plain to anyone with his habit of religiously reading online comments. No one, he says, seems to see the disaster just over the horizon if ratification fails. The impetus for the concessions is a short-term crisis: How to fill […]

An inquiry by the office of Attorney General George Jepsen has concluded without finding any evidence the state computer or e-mail systems were compromised by opponents of the labor concession deal. The State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition had complained that the Yankee Institute, a conservative think tank, had tried to unfairly influent state employees with […]