Think the White House is trying to amplify the president’s jobs speech? It put out a one-paragraph statement tonight from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy praising the speech, not exactly SOP from the White House. The statement quantifies one impact of President Obama’s plan in Connecticut: an extension of unemployment benefits to nearly 80,000 residents who […]

Nelson Brown, a speaker of the Connecticut House in the late 1950s and the trusted tie-breaker on legislative redistricting plans in 1991 and 2001, died early Thursday at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital. He was 89. As a genial and popular figure at the state Capitol, where he lobbied on freedom of information issues, it was […]

A group of business and philanthropic leaders presented their education reform proposals to the state Board of Education Wednesday, pitching changes to teacher certification requirements, preparation programs and evaluations to help close Connecticut’s dramatic achievement gap. Members of the Connecticut Council on Education Reform said they considered the timing appropriate, coming as Gov. Dannel P. […]

After helping rebuild Lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks and heading economic development efforts in Newark, N.J., a confident Stefan Pryor came to Connecticut Wednesday to tackle another daunting challenge. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy introduced Pryor as the man to lead the effort to close the state’s worst-in-the-nation public school achievement gap separating the poor […]

WASHINGTON–The impending fiscal crisis besetting the U.S. Postal Service is small potatoes, when compared to deficit-reduction choices federal lawmakers will have to make in the coming months. But the debate over how to shore up the mail service’s finances highlights how resistant many lawmakers are to making even small cuts to cherished programs. The postal […]

It was a Friday night, the end of a draining week of coping with Tropical Storm Irene and the beginning of an over-scheduled Labor Day weekend, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy had one more commitment to keep: attending a mayoral fundraiser in New Britain. His appearance on behalf of Rep. Tim O’Brien, who hopes to […]

Buried in an otherwise gloomy poll–and aren’t they all these day?–is some good news for President Barack Obama: More than half of Americans support the idea of a large-scale government-subsidized construction program to create job, Carrie Budoff Brown reports at Politico. Such a plan is expected to be the centerpiece of the president’s jobs speech […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has called a special session of the General Assembly to deal with job creation and economic development, both clear negatives in our state for many years. I applaud the governor for his leadership and hope that both parties can have a serious discussion on potential solutions. Connecticut is not growing and […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy intends by the end of the week to name a panel that will review how the state, municipalities, non-profits and the utilities responded to Tropical Storm Irene. The governor’s review is intended to be broader than examining the performance of the state’s two major power companies, Connecticut Light & Power and […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration already has secured one-fifth of this year’s savings called for in the union concession deal–and apparently won’t be trying to take any more funding from Connecticut’s three chief watchdog agencies. Office of Policy and Management Secretary Benjamin Barnes reported Tuesday that $135 million was withheld from agencies’ budget allotments for […]