WASHINGTON — There aren’t likely to be many times Sen. Chris Murphy goes to the White House to help President Donald Trump promote policy, but Monday’s “Buy American” event was one of them. The president told Sikorsky executives he has three of the company’s choppers.
July 17, 2017 @ 7:04 pm
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Malloy campaigns to pressure legislature on budget impasse
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Monday toured HARC Inc., a private non-profit that serves 2,254 families of intellectually disabled children and adults, an effort to use recipients of state-funded services to pressure the deadlocked Connecticut General Assembly to adopt at least a temporary budget.
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CT lawmakers prepare for 2018 campaign by raising lots of cash
WASHINGTON — Connecticut’s members of Congress, all Democrats, are preparing for the pivotal 2018 elections by getting a head start in the campaign money race. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District, raised more money than any Connecticut member of the House of Representatives in the first six months of this year.
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Fasano urges Malloy to release union wage concession agreements now
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Senate Republican leader Len Fasano sparred Monday over the administration’s refusal to release tentative wage concessions agreements until after unionized employees have finished voting on them.
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State workers to finish voting today on concessions deal
More than 40,000 workers were eligible to cast ballots. The outcome will have a major impact on the gridlocked budget debate now consuming the Capitol.
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Office of Early Childhood merger takes us back, not forward
It is troubling that several of the budget proposals floating around the State Capitol call for the merger of the Office of Early Childhood into the State Department of Education. It was just three years ago that we finally brought together services touching families with young children from five different agencies into one stand-alone Office of Early Childhood, under the direction of a commissioner.
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Dismantling access to Connecticut’s higher education
I woke up recently to the headline that the governor of Nevada had signed into law the Nevada Promise Scholarship which would provide tuition-free community college to eligible students. Thus Nevada joins Massachusetts, New York and Tennessee in providing increased access to higher education for low income students through a robust community college system. Connecticut has taken the opposite route. Instead of looking at ways to increase access, the solution that is being proposed is dismantling the community college system by centralizing and creating a hierarchy with one president overseeing 12 colleges.
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Advocates say ‘perfect storm’ of possible cuts threatens mental health care
Proposed reductions to Medicaid, coupled with state budget cuts under consideration, concern mental health advocates, who say lowering eligibility for Medicaid without providing other options would result in the cycling of patients in and out of care. When people can’t work, advocates say, they go on public assistance programs, costing the state more than they would have if they had been allowed to stay on Medicaid and remain in treatment.