Peter C. Dorsey, who died Friday at age 80, was one of the joys of covering the federal courts in Connecticut. He had an impish sense of humor, a love of banter on and off the bench, and an endless capacity for exasperating federal prosecutors and agents, who found him too willing to cut criminal […]
January 23, 2012
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Democrats, Tuesday is the deadline to switch, if you want to vote in the GOP primary
Certain things in this life require lots of advance notice: One of them is switching parties in order to vote in a presidential primary in Connecticut. The Republican presidential primary is not until April 24, but Tuesday is the deadline for Democrats or members of any other party to switch affiliations and join the GOP, […]
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St. Francis, Johnson Memorial hospitals to form affiliation
The parent companies of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford and Johnson Memorial Hospital in Stafford Springs announced plans to form an affiliation Monday, becoming the latest in a series of hospital partnerships across the state. The agreement between the companies, which requires regulatory approval, would bring capital and access to clinical services […]
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Fail. ConnCAN blasts school finance panel’s recommendations
ConnCAN, a New-Haven based education reform group, has given the panel tasked with fixing how the state’s schools are financed a failing grade on its first round of recommendations. “These consensus recommendations are a swing and a miss,” said Patrick Riccards, the group’s leader. The Education Cost Sharing panel released a short list of recommendations […]
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Connecticut ranks 7th in state funding cuts to higher education
Connecticut ranks seventh in cutting higher education funding from last year to this year, according to an annual report released by the Center for the Study of Education Policy at Illinois State University Monday. While the average cut was 4.1 percent in other states, Connecticut’s colleges and universities took a 12.2 percent hit for this […]
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Agriculture’s star rises in Malloy administration
In an era when jobs haven’t exactly been growing on trees — Connecticut is betting that they just might. And on bushes. And even indoors. Some half-dozen years after the Rowland administration tried to all but eliminate the state’s Department of Agriculture, the Malloy administration is embracing the state’s $3.5 billion, 20,000-job agriculture industry as […]
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UConn expected to expand who’s required to report child sex abuse
The after-effects of the 2011 Penn State child abuse scandal continue here, with both the University of Connecticut and state legislators examining possible policy changes regarding who must report such incidents. UConn’s Board of Trustees plans to meet Wednesday to vote on changes to the policy. Penn State’s assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was recently charged […]
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Malloy unveils plan to reverse two decades of damage to employees’ pension fund
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled plans Monday to reverse nearly two decades of budget gimmicks that leave the state facing huge payments over the next two decades to sustain Connecticut’s grossly underfunded state employee pension fund. But while Malloy touted potential long-range savings, they come with a high price that must be paid up front: […]