As the world turns, Life is becoming more and more complicated. Looking out your window in the morning wondering what today will bring. Turning on the news to see anything but good. People want change and want peace but no one knows how to accomplish it. When my generation was in school we were all […]
August 21, 2013 @ 12:00 am
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With phone wait times growing, DSS is troubleshooting its modernization plans
Wait times to reach a Department of Social Services worker through the agency’s new phone system have increased each week since it debuted last month. The process of scanning all documents that come to DSS, to eliminate the reliance on millions of pieces of paper, probably needs additional tools. And agency officials are still trying […]
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Malloy administration asked chairman of state’s college system to step aside
The chairman of the state’s largest public college system’s governing board resigned earlier this month after being asked to do so by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s chief of staff. Saying the series of missteps that beset the system during Lewis Robinson’s tenure have been a “distraction” to improving the dozen community colleges and Connecticut State Universities, […]
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Connecticut’s trouble with seawalls
New Haven – Rob Smuts, New Haven’s chief of emergency management, is walking down the beach at Morris Cove on an on-and-off-drizzly summer morning, his dress shoes utterly out of sync with the moment. He is talking with beachside neighbors David Kronberg and Tony Sacco about the same thing they’ve talked about for years -– seawalls.
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Malloy wants Keno run-up ‘open and transparent’
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Wednesday that the lottery game known as Keno is still likely to open in the state and called on the quasi-public Connecticut Lottery Corporation to be open with the public and press about what their plans are in opening the games across the state.
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Lobbying tab for 2012: $51.7 million
Just how much was spent last year lobbying legislators? The Office of State Ethics reported Wednesday that special interest groups spent $39.7 million in 2012 to lobby state lawmakers. In total, $51.7 million was spent on lobbying activity in the state, of which nearly three-quarters went to compensate lobbyists. The remainder was spent on TV […]