If nonpartisan legislatie analysts are right – and if Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo agrees – the deficit is at least $50 million worse than Gov. Dannel P. Malloy reported last week.
January 26, 2015
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NU workers deliver no-confidence message
The blizzard played a role in a political action staged Monday at the State Capitol by unionized utility workers unhappy with staffing cutbacks at two Northeast Utilities subsidiaries, Connecticut Light & Power and Yankee Gas.
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Help wanted: CT commissioner with education background
The panel searching for the state’s next education commissioner wants someone who has a long background and an advanced degree in education – qualifications the last commissioner did not have and which one of the state’s teachers’ unions called for during the campaign.
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CT ended 2014 with jobless rate down to 6.4 percent
Connecticut’s unemployment rate dropped slightly to 6.4 percent in December, buoyed by 4,800 new jobs created during the holiday shopping season, the state Labor Department reported Monday. The state closed 2014 with 26,700 jobs gained, up from the 18,400 positions added in 2013. Connecticut now has regained 96,300, or 80.9 percent, of the 119,100 jobs lost during the last recession.
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Malloy to Connecticut: Get home, stay there
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy ordered the closure of Connecticut’s highways, canceled state-employee shifts and generally admonished anyone from trying to travel until a fierce winter storm subsides Wednesday.
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Uber, taxis line up lobbyists for Connecticut battle
A lobbying war between Connecticut’s taxi industry and Uber Technologies, whose ride-sharing service is the epitome of a “disruptive technology” and the evolving “sharing economy,” is about to emerge from the shadows in Hartford.
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Behind The Numbers Podcast – Episode 1: The governor, the deficit and the lockbox
Mirror reporter Keith M. Phaneuf and Hartford Courant columnist Dan Haar, discuss Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s upcoming budget proposal, big deficit projections, and whether a legal “lockbox” can ensure transportation investments will actually grow. Behind The Numbers is sponsored by the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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Op-Ed: Abuse deterrent drugs could improve life, health, in Connecticut
Connecticut lawmakers should follow Massachusetts’ lead by encouraging use of abuse deterrent medications — simultaneously discouraging prescription drug abuse and allowing people with chronic pain to afford the medications they need.
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Abuse deterrent drugs could improve life, health, in Connecticut
Connecticut lawmakers should follow Massachusetts’ lead by encouraging use of abuse deterrent medications — simultaneously discouraging prescription drug abuse and allowing people with chronic pain to afford the medications they need.