Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman is emotional while receiving applause after addressing lawmakers. Credit: Jacqueline Rabe Thomas / CtMirror.org
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy delivering his address in the House chamber.
Malloy at the podium.
Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman is emotional while receiving applause after addressing lawmakers.
Watching the speech from outside the House chamber, from left, are Roy Occhiogrosso, the governor’s former senior adviser; Brian Flaherty, the Connecticut Business and Industry Association’s vice president for government affairs; and Terry Corcoran of CBIA.
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton, a former Republican candidate for governor, is to be named the new commissioner of the Department of Revenue Services.
Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin talks with a state representative after the speech.
Malloy, center left. before his speech surrounded by, from left, Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Loney, D-New Haven; House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin; and Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano of North Haven.
Rep. Melissa Ziobron, R-East Haddam, left, and House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, talk before the speech.
From left, Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney, D-New Haven; House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D-Berlin; and Senate Republican Leader Len Fasano listen to the governor’s speech.
Sens. Art Linares. R-Westbrook, and Eric Berthel, R-Watertown, with a guest in the chamber.
From left, Sens. Michael McLachlan, R-Danbury; Ed Gomes, D-Bridgeport; Marilyn Moore, D-Bridgeport; and Kevin Kelly, R-Stratford.
First Lady Cathy Malloy with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and their granddaughter Grace.
First Lady Cathy Malloy with, from left, sons Dannel Malloy and Ben Malloy. Dannel holds his daughter Grace Elizabeth.
From left, Sens. Art Linares, R-Westbrook; Eric Berthel, R-Watertown; and Henri Martin, R-Bristol.
Sens. Gayle Slossberg, D-Milford; and Ted Kennedy Jr., D-Branford; brag about their constituents headed to compete in the winter Olympics.
Malloy delivering his address in the House chamber.
Malloy delivering his address in the House chamber.
Sens. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, and Steve Cassano, D-Manchester, before the speech.
Former Speaker of the House Richard Balducci wears a pink ribbon in support of women.

Jacqueline was CT Mirror’s Education and Housing Reporter, and an original member of the CT Mirror staff, joining shortly before our January 2010 launch. Her awards include the best-of-show Theodore A. Driscoll Investigative Award from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists in 2019 for reporting on inadequate inmate health care, first-place for investigative reporting from the New England Newspaper and Press Association in 2020 for reporting on housing segregation, and two first-place awards from the National Education Writers Association in 2012. She was selected for a prestigious, year-long Propublica Local Reporting Network grant in 2019, exploring a range of affordable and low-income housing issues. Before joining CT Mirror, Jacqueline was a reporter, online editor and website developer for The Washington Post Co.’s Maryland newspaper chains. Jacqueline received an undergraduate degree in journalism from Bowling Green State University and a master’s in public policy from Trinity College.

Clarice Silber was a General Assignment Reporter at CT Mirror. She formerly worked for The Associated Press in Phoenix as a legislative and general assignment reporter. In 2016, she conducted extensive interviews and research in Portuguese and Spanish for the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team at McClatchy, which was the only U.S. newspaper to gain initial access to the Panama Papers. She is a Rio de Janeiro native and graduated from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

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