Two new studies say global warming is threatening national parks in the West and Midwest, including the nation’s oldest park, Yellowstone. Ecologists say climate change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem will increase the frequency of wildfires and alter the composition of the forests by 2050, US News reports. Using historic fire data to project future […]
July 28, 2011
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Boehner won’t get any votes for his debt plan from CT lawmakers
No one knows yet how the debt-ceiling standoff in Washington will end. But we can at least report that Connecticut lawmakers have lined up against the plan put forward by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, which will come up for a cliffhanger vote later this evening. Boehner’s plan would raise the debt ceiling in two […]
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Jepsen finds no security breaches in probe of anti-concession e-mails
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 […]
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Backers of concession deal struggle to sell its long-term benefits
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 […]
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Malloy is definitely running again, but he’ll be wearing shorts
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 […]
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Vo-tech students, parents and staff rally against budget cuts
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 […]
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Auditors say state’s computer systems aren’t ready for GAAP
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 […]