Some of Connecticut’s 2012 lottery winners wound up with less cash than they expected as a result of a new law aimed at delinquent taxpayers. According to the Department of Revenue Services, the state has collected $133,208 since Jan. 1 from a new statute requiring lottery administrators to cross-reference prize winner and tax delinquency lists […]
July 3, 2012 @ 12:00 am
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Labor commissioner resigns for family reasons
State Labor Commissioner Glenn Marshall has resigned for “personal family matters,” Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office announced Tuesday, disclosing few other details behind the first departure of a commissioner from the administration. Marshall, who had been a leading Fairfield County carpenters’ union official when Malloy tapped him to join his administration in January 2011, submitted […]
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Pesticide contamination of well water could be widespread in Connecticut
State and Stamford health officials are urging residents with private wells to get their water tested for pesticides and other possible contaminants. A study of 628 private wells by the Stamford Health Department found that 195 had some amount of the pesticides Chlordane or Dieldrin. More than half of those 195 had concentrations that put […]
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The real impact of outsourcing
The first line of this Steven Pearlstein column in the July 1 Washington Post caught my eye because of my interest in New England (especially 19th century) history: “The battle has been going on since at least the 1880s, when the first New England textile mills began moving production to the Carolinas.” Pearlstein, the 2008 […]
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As primary nears, McMahon loses spokeswoman
Erin Isaac, Linda McMahon’s spokeswoman, is no longer with the campaign, according to the Republican Senate candidate’s new communications director, Kate Duffy. Duffy had served as the McMahon campaign’s deputy communications director. While the campaign confirmed Isaac’s departure, it did not say why it has lost a member of its public affairs team so close […]