An estimated 158 state employees out of 3,008 that have received layoff notices to date already have been separated from their jobs, and that separation total is likely to approach 600 before unionized workers finish their second vote on concessions, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office reported Wednesday. And while the administration continues to make plans […]
July 27, 2011 @ 12:00 am
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Malloy mum on plans if bargaining units again reject pay freeze
EAST HARTFORD–Gov. Dannel P. Malloy declined to say Wednesday whether he would consider layoffs only to cover the cost of raises for unionized workers who refuse a wage freeze, or to help fill other holes in the state budget. “I prefer to hope that they are all going to pass the agreement and that that’s […]
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Larson: House Democrats back 14th Amendment “fail-safe” in debt standoff
WASHINGTON-House Democrats are urging President Barack Obama to use an untested legal option to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling if congressional Republicans don’t agree on a long-term plan to stave of U.S. default in the coming days. “We’re getting down to decision time,” Rep. John Larson, D-1st District, told reporters after a closed-door meeting with […]
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DSS commissioner trying to push back a tidal wave of paper
On his BlackBerry, Roderick L. Bremby, the state’s new commissioner of social services, keeps photographs he took on visits to field offices to illustrate what his agency is dealing with. They show rows of file cabinets so full that papers get stored on top, files for long-term care patients that are several inches thick, and […]
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Public wants a debt agreement–even if they don’t like it
Americans overwhelmingly want their legislators to reach agreement on the federal debt deadlock, even if that means a compromise they don’t like, a new survey says. Overall, 68 percent agreed with the statement that lawmakers should “be willing to compromise, even if that means they strike a deal you disagree with.” Majorities of Republicans (53 […]
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States all over the map on exchange creation
The Kaiser Family Foundation reported Wednesday on states’ progress in developing one of the key pieces of federal health reform, the health insurance exchange, and found that Connecticut is among the states furthest along. The federal reform law requires each state to have a health insurance exchange–a marketplace for buying coverage–by 2014. The exchanges will […]
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Bysiewicz gets EMILY’s List nod
U.S. Senate hopeful Susan Bysiewicz got a political lift today from EMILY’s List, a national fundraising group that recruits and supports Democratic pro-choice female candidates. EMILY’s List put Bysiewicz, Connecticut’s former secretary of the state, “on the list.” That’s not a full-fledged endorsement but it will almost certainly help draw Democratic donors to her campaign. […]