A day after the University of Connecticut’s Board of Trustees adopted a $1.3 billion budget after discussing it privately for 90 minutes but not in public, three state legislators urged greater transparency in the university’s budget process.
June 25, 2015
Posted inMoney, Politics
Fasano bends his fiscal principles to rebalance GOP budget
One of the most vocal critics of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Democratic legislators, Senate Minority Leader Len Fasano, discovered recently it’s not so easy to balance a budget without compromising on fiscal principles.
Posted inHealth, Politics
CT supporters of ACA laud Supreme Court decision
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the legality of federal subsidies that help millions of Americans purchase health insurance was lauded by the Connecticut lawmakers who supported the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn’t end the political fight over the health care law.
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Malloy campaign investigation lands in ‘an ugly place’
Open warfare erupted Thursday between the State Elections Enforcement Commission and the Democratic Party over an investigation into how the party financed its support for the re-election of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Democrats preemptively attacked the commission’s credibility as the panel voted to seek court action to enforce an investigative subpoena.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Let down by Hartford City Hall
A few weeks ago, a burglar stole my beloved special edition Vespa from my condominium in the Farmington Avenue area of Hartford — the second one that gets stolen from me. The policeman who took the report told me “just file an insurance claim. We will never find it.” The Vespa I may be able to replace if I were to move into the suburbs. But sadly, what I cannot replace is my trust in City Hall, because this crime is not an outlier. We have had more than 22 burglaries in the neighborhood.
Posted inHealth
As Medicaid grows, will there be more cuts to provider payments?
Radiologists are appealing to legislators to roll back a 42.5 percent cut to their Medicaid payment rates. And some patient advocates are raising a broader concern, warning that cuts to providers who treat Medicaid patients could become more common, making it harder for the more than 725,000 state residents in Medicaid to find specialists to treat them.
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Revised forecast bleak: New federal data bursts CT’s economic bubble
The University of Connecticut’s economic think-tank predicted Thursday that the state’s job growth this year and next probably will stall or even decline — a dramatic reversal of its forecast of robust job growth issued just four months ago.