Sen. Andrea Stillman has been selected to co-chair the legislature’s Education Committee, following former chairman Sen. Thomas P. Gaffey‘s resignation after deciding to plea guilty to larceny. Stillman, D-Waterford, has been on the Education Committee for two years and leads a task force that is looking into modifying how Individualized Education Programs in schools are […]

One of Gov. Dan Malloy’s top appointees handed in a resignation letter after his State of the State speech today:, his choice to run the Department of Children and Families, resigned from the Connecticut Supreme Court, effective at the close of business. Wearing her black judicial robes, Katz sat with the rest of the court […]

Susan Bysiewicz completed her last duty as secretary of the state at 10:22 a.m., administering the oath of office to the state Senate and presiding over the chamber until Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams Jr., D-Brooklyn, was formally re-elected to his leadership post. “Good morning, everyone,” Bysiewicz said. “We are calling the Senate […]

As his former colleagues were sworn in down the street, state Sen. Thomas P. Gaffey pleaded guilty to six larceny charges and received a six-month suspended sentence. He also officially resigned from office Wednesday. The charges stem from allegations that the eight-term legislator double-billed the legislature and his political action committee for travel expenses totaling […]

Wednesday, January 5, 2011 10 a.m.: The General Assembly convenes its 2011 session. Legislators and Lt. Gov. Nancy S. Wyman, who presides over the Senate, will take the oath of office. 1 p.m.: Dannel P. Malloy, Wyman and their families will march in a brief inaugural parade from the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch in […]

Dan Malloy takes office Wednesday as the state’s 88th governor and its first Democrat in a generation with his administration still a work in progress: He has named permanent leaders for fewer than half the state’s 23 major agencies. Malloy, 55, is scheduled to take the oath at 2 p.m. at a ceremony in the […]

WASHINGTON–Try finding an apartment in Glastonbury for a young adult who is mentally ill, never finished high school, and is currently unemployed. “It’s almost impossible,” said Kim Beauregard, CEO of InterCommunity Inc., a nonprofit agency that serves adults and children living with mental illness and addiction problems. For the seven towns her agency serves, from […]

The resignation of nine Democratic legislators will take effect when the 2011 session of the General Assembly opens at 10 a.m. Wednesday, leaving six empty chairs in the House and three in the Senate to be filled by special elections in late February or early March. Rep. Chris Caruso, D-Bridgeport, who was named Tuesday evening […]

Despite a record-setting budget deficit, the state should consider creating a new agency to resolve a growing backlog of employee complaints of corruption, mismanagement, waste and unsafe behavior, Connecticut’s retiring state auditors proposed Monday. Robert G. Jaekle and Kevin P. Johnston also used their final annual report to recommend closing a loophole in the state […]

WASHINGTON–The first few days of the 112th Congress will be mostly pomp and pageantry, with no plans to debate any meaty legislation. But Rep. Joe Courtney says one GOP proposal on the docket–a little-noticed change to House rules that’s set for a vote on Wednesday–could have more serious implications than many hotly-debated bills. At issue are […]

It’s not every day that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which spent millions in the last election to elect conservative candidates, rushes to the defense of a liberal Democrat like Rep. Joe Courtney, of Connecticut’s 2nd District. But a nasty fight in Washington over the rules governing federal transportation spending has upended some of this city’s usual […]

Rep. Chris Caruso, D-Bridgeport, will be the last legislator to land a job in the executive branch before the door slams shut tomorrow on movement between the legislative and executive branches of government. Caruso, who was a supporter of Dan Malloy in the pivotal city of Bridgeport, will be a special advisor to the governor […]

There are two sets of freshmen being sworn in to the U.S. House of Representatives this week, and their entrances couldn’t be more different. The Democrats call themselves “The Mighty Nine,” David A. Fahrenthold says at the Washington Post, and that’s half right: There are nine of them. But the smallest freshman class either party […]

Rep. Deborah W. Heinrich, D-Madison, who was an early supporter of Dan Malloy’s campaign for governor, was named today by the governor-elect to a cabinet-level position that doesn’t yet exist — to lead a Community Nonprofit Human Services Cabinet. “I have been clear that getting our fiscal house in order will require a shared sacrifice on […]