Hartford — The hopes and tensions underlying the proposed acquisition and merger of Waterbury’s two hospitals were exposed during a public forum in Hartford Monday. While Waterbury’s mayor said the plan could revitalize his struggling city, hospital union members said they felt ignored by the private entity that would acquire the new, merged hospital, and […]

Connecticut’s so-called “roll-your-own” cigarette industry, which became embroiled two weeks ago in a congressional campaign scandal, won’t avoid a stiff new state fee, but will have an extra three months to prepare for it. That’s according to draft legislation that the General Assembly is expected to adopt Tuesday in a special session that also is […]

Just when boat dealers were expecting a promising recovery in boat sales this year, the state’s luxury sales tax, which went into effect July 1, 2011, seems to have dashed their hopes. The traditional start of the boating season — the July 4 weekend — is only three weeks away, but the sales of new […]

Washington — In a recount of a very close referendum, New London residents in November narrowly rejected a plan to sell nearly 10 acres of the city’s Riverside Park to the U.S. Coast Guard to expand operations at its military academy. As soon as the New London vote was finalized, $4.9 million appropriated by Congress […]

The first time they met, in the early 1980s, Frank Torti and Edison Liu were newly minted doctors, Liu training to be a cancer specialist at Stanford University and Torti a young oncology professor who taught him. Soon after, they would both shift their focus to basic science, motivated by what they expected would be […]

Red Jahncke, president of business consulting firm, the Townsend Group International LLC in Greenwich, is a euro-crisis contrarian. But he makes an interesting case, as this opinion piece on Bloomberg View shows.

While hundreds of Connecticut residents rallied in New Haven against abortion and federal requirements that religious organizations cover their employees’ contraceptives, officials at the State Capitol complex took up a measure on whether the insurance everyone will be required to purchase under the federal health law will cover the procedures. The panel unanimously decided that […]

The scope of next week’s special budget session at the General Assembly is expanding to include state police staffing levels, energy issues, economic development, roll-your-own cigarettes and the sale of state land. Not on the list — at least not by late Friday afternoon as Democratic legislative leaders were to try to finalize the scope […]

Washington — Gov. Dannel Malloy called Congress “crazy,” “irresponsible” and “insane” for failing to approve a long-term transportation bill that would allow the state to move forward on new road projects. Failure to approve a long-term bill has forced Congress to pass short-term authorizations to keep federal transportation money flowing to states. The latest stopgap […]

After opening the year with a bang, the state’s job market likely will return to more modest growth over the next year, leaving Connecticut well shy of recovering all jobs lost in the last recession, according to the University of Connecticut’s latest economic journal. The summer issue of The Connecticut Economy, unveiled Friday at the […]