Gov. Dannel P. Malloy stopped short Wednesday evening of endorsing a call to fine electric utilities for slow restoration efforts, but warned his confidence in Connecticut Light & Power Co. could slip as early as Thursday morning if new goals for returning service to customers aren’t met. Meanwhile, CL&P President Jeffrey Butler apologized for creating […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy launched the new labor-management panel charged with finding efficiencies across state government by pledging Tuesday to cooperate with workers to help them transform state services–and the costs associated with them. And the governor’s chief negotiator, Office of Policy and Management Deputy Secretary Mark Ojakian, also told the panel–which was supposed to […]

As Gov. Dannel P. Malloy vented his own frustrations, the head of Connecticut’s largest utility conceded his company is struggling to mobilize the workforce it needs to respond more quickly to last weekend’s snow storm. But Connecticut Light & Power Co. President and CEO Jeffrey Butler refused to back off his projection that all power […]

Though it may not gather the same headlines as power outages and closed roads, you can add the state budget to the list of programs and services disrupted twice in the last two months by Connecticut’s disastrous weather. Specifically, this past weekend’s Nor’easter will mean Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration will now wait until late […]

With much of Connecticut still in the dark following a nor’easter that dumped up to two feet on snow on sections of the state, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy found himself back in an Army National Guard helicopter Monday just two months after taking a similar trip to assess the damage from Tropical Storm Irene. “Flooding […]

The legislature’s non-partisan Office of Fiscal Analysis has identified more than $80 million in projected savings ascribed by the Malloy Administration to the union concession deal that don’t actually depend on the contract changes ratified in late August. In its first analysis of the concession deal since ratification, the Office of Fiscal Analysis also raised […]

If the Boston Red Sox have relied on a manual scoreboard on their famous left field wall for nearly 80 years, does the state House of Representatives really need new electronic boards to tally votes at a cost of $800,000 in tough fiscal times? Sen. Andrew W. Roraback of Goshen asked the question Friday, shortly […]

The consensus jobs bill signed into law Thursday gives the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy the ability he sought to expand public-private partnerships on some types of state construction projects, a provision state employee unions fought to eliminate. As a compromise, the final bill includes labor protections that unions sought in the measure enacted […]

Originally estimated by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration $516 million, the final calculation of the cost of the jobs package by the non-partisan Office of Fiscal Analysis remained somewhat unclear Wednesday evening though it stood close to $1 billion. Legislators said that one major reason for the difference is that the administration had been referring […]

State government will spend $291 million over the next decade to entice an internationally renowned genetic research institute to move to Farmington after the General Assembly approved Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s initiative in two predominantly partisan votes during Wednesday’s special session. The House of Representatives voted 101-41 to approve the funding for Maine-based Jackson Laboratory […]

Though the potential for dramatic job growth in cutting-edge bioscience is supposedly the chief selling point for the proposed Jackson Laboratory research center, it’s the finances behind the deal–and two very different ways of presenting them–that is controlling much of the Capitol debate. For nearly a month, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration has been touting […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Tuesday evening that he and legislative leaders had reached bipartisan agreement on new job growth legislation expected to win approval in special session on Wednesday. “I believe we have white smoke,” Malloy said in a brief statement with Capitol reporters following his second closed-door negotiating session of the day with […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget office warned this week it is watching some negative fiscal trends that could threaten the modest surplus currently projected for this year. And the $75.6 million fiscal cushion reported Thursday by the Office of Policy and Management – in one respect – is already gone. That’s because Malloy and the […]