A new report showing that funds for state workers’ retirement benefits are still being kept in the cash pool used to pay operating bills intensified the partisan debate Friday over Connecticut’s fiscal health. The legislature’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis noted that nearly $50 million set aside for retiree health care — half of which […]

Two weeks after a series of shooting incidents in Hartford, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Thursday the state will spend $500,000 on a program to decrease gun violence in the state’s three major cities. Malloy, joined by legislators and municipal officials, said the “Focused Deterrence” program would be a concerted effort between federal, state and […]

Recent Internet security breaches at two college campuses prompted public state higher education officials Thursday to impose tougher rules for the use of personal information in computer files. The Board of Regents for Higher Education adopted a policy that tightens security controls, requires additional staff training and makes college and university presidents responsible for maintaining […]

Middletown — Connecticut’s state universities and community colleges could begin hiring additional faculty and staff as early as this fall with $5.5 million in administrative cost savings resulting from last year’s higher education merger. The savings from the elimination of about two dozen senior administrative jobs could lead to as many as 45 new teaching and […]

One-third of teachers’ evaluations could be linked to their students’ standardized test results if the State Board of Education next week agrees on guidelines a state panel approved today. The panel — which consists of representatives from superintendents, school boards, principals and teachers’ groups — is also recommending that the state’s 50,000 public school teachers […]

With the U.S. Supreme Court to rule this week or next on national health care reform, Connecticut officials are holding their collective breath, waiting to see if they must choose between cutting health care benefits for the poor and spending more state money to replace the hundreds of millions in federal dollars that will vanish. […]

Groton — Sooner or later, every candidate for statewide office ends up at the gate of Electric Boat, trying to the shake the hands of men hell-bent on going home. It was Linda McMahon’s turn Wednesday. On the hottest day of the year, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate waited on a sun-baked sidewalk, squinting […]

U.S. Attorney David Fein participated in a press conference today at the State Capitol, but he left before anyone could ask questions about federal investigations into the congressional campaign of House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan or the consulting activities of former Gov. John G. Rowland. The topic was a first-day-of-summer focus by Gov. Dannel P. […]