September 17, 2012 @ 12:00 am

A congressional research service is challenging the candidates who say that preserving Bush-era tax breaks for the rich are a way to increase jobs. In fact, the non-partisan Congressional Research Service not only found no evidence that six decades of relief for the wealthy helped the nation’s economy, they also warned that this may have […]

A state panel is considering recommending wealthy school districts and high-income parents with special needs children pay more to cover the skyrocketing price of special education. One in eight Connecticut students — more than 60,000 — receives special education services, and nearly $1 of every $4 spent on education goes to special education. In the […]

After hitting its lowest point this past spring since emerging from the the recent recession, the state’s economy might need until 2018 to recover all of the jobs it lost, the University of Connecticut is reporting today in its latest quarterly journal. “At the current rate it will take nearly six more years to recover […]

U.S. Senate candidate Chris Murphy has beefed up his campaign press staff with Eli Zupnick, who arrives in Connecticut via the staff of Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The Murphy campaign is downplaying the addition of a new staffer with a DSCC connection, sensitive to the perception […]

It’s his bank, her company. What could be fairer?