Four years after the state took over Windham Public Schools amid concerns about low achievement and a divided locally elected school board, the state has agreed to return day-to-day operation to local officials.
February 7, 2014 @ 6:19 pm
Eick gives GOP a second candidate for treasurer
Bob Eick, a partner in the Stamford investment firm of CRT Capital Group, announced Friday he has filed papers to seek the Republican nomination for state treasurer.
Malloy budget chief: We want to spend more on colleges than proposed
The governor’s budget director said Friday that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s $60 million spending proposal aimed at renovating and upgrading the buildings at the state’s largest public college system is just a down payment on what’s really needed.
Op-ed: Invest in Connecticut’s children
Over the past two decades, Connecticut has committed less and less of its budget to young people.
DSS would get more workers under Malloy plan
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget includes 103 new staff positions for the state Department of Social Services, which has faced litigation alleging that it doesn’t have enough workers to process Medicaid applications within the required timeframe.
Analyzing Malloy’s budget? The Mirror invites you to annotate
Are you an accountant, nonprofit, lawmaker or just an interested reader who has been dissecting Gov. Malloy’s 2014 budget since its release Thursday afternoon? If so, The Mirror invites you to join the community, dissect and annotate. This is how:
Blumenthal, DeLauro try to stop flood insurance increases
Washington – Saying more than 18,000 Connecticut homeowners will be socked with soaring flood insurance premiums, Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Rosa DeLauro are pressing the House of Representatives to pass a bill that would stop those hikes.
How Malloy wants to pay for his higher education plans
While the governor spent a good part of his speech Thursday discussing his higher education initiatives, details of his $60 million plan don’t appear in the college and universities’ spending plans. This is because Malloy is using a budget loophole to get around the state’s constitutional spending limits.
Winners and losers in the governor’s budget
Here’s an early look at who wins and who loses under the budget proposal Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled Thursday.
Malloy decries budget gimmicks — but uses a few
Despite decrying the budget gimmicks of his Republican predecessors, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is employing some fiscal tricks himself, using $70 million in borrowing and other gimmicks to balance his latest spending plan.
Malloy’s State of the State: ‘Real progress’ in Connecticut
In his fourth and final State of the State address before facing re-election, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy delivered a ringing defense Thursday of his response to an inherited fiscal crisis and a rebuke of critics whom he says refuse to acknowledge a slow, yet measurable recovery from recession.