“If one child in need is without health care, that is one child too many,” said Rep. Cathy Abercrombie, D-Meriden.
March 21, 2019 @ 6:39 pm
CT schools defend policies as Trump threatens funding over free speech
The Trump administration did not say what would prompt a school to lose its funding under the new “free speech” policy.
Panel: No pay hikes for legislators, statewide officers
The Commission on Compensation for Elected State Officers voted Thursday to retain the salary structure in place since 2001.
Trump official reconsiders, OK’s casino in East Windsor
A terse notice posted by the Department of Interior on its web site at 11:15 a.m. gives no rationale for the reversal, saying only that after “further consultations with the Tribe,” the East Windsor gambling amendment is approved.
CT loses 400 jobs in February but unemployment remains fixed at 17-year-low
While that jobless rate remains CT’s lowest in 17 years, it also comes just two weeks after labor officials revised job growth numbers sharply downward for 2018.
Connecticut voters need the power to hold referendums
It’s high time Connecticut voters had the right and ability to enact legislation sidestepping —even in opposition to— the General Assembly; or at the very least vetoing legislation enacted by the General Assembly. We’re talking about statewide direct voter-initiative referendums.
Be very, very wary of public-private partnerships
Assuming that it’s possible for Connecticut to impose tolls on roads constructed, reconstructed or maintained in part with federal dollars, how can the investment required to install toll gantries and cameras be funded before any tolls are actually collected? The answer is simple and straightforward: issue state revenue bonds, to be repaid from the future revenue stream generated by tolls. State revenue bonds issued for a public purpose are tax-exempt. Accordingly, they would likely bear a lower interest rate than any loan granted by a private entity looking for a rate of return that would not only cover the cost of any capital that it borrows, but also provide a profit to the entity.
A solution to the 140th District election quagmire
A “quagmire” describes an extraordinarily distressing situation that all of the options for extraction would probably just make worse. The term aptly describes both falling into quicksand and last November’s election for the 140th Connecticut House of Representatives district in Stratford, where an egregious error by elections officials resulted in 70 votes being cast in the wrong voting district, in an election where the margin of victory (for Democratic incumbent Phil Young) was 14 votes.
For the second time, health program for CT seniors in the budget bulls-eye
To save money, the state proposes to implement an assets test for the popular Medicare Savings Program.