It’s barely three months since Election Day, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy goes back on the campaign trail Monday — not to run for a second term but to sell one of the most painful budget proposals in recent state history. The governor, who begins the first of 17 Town Hall-style meetings at 7 p.m. […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy summed up the meaning of his new budget proposal Wednesday in one word: jobs. But while the new governor once again declared that Connecticut is “open for business,” reactions were mixed as to whether his initiatives would enhance or hinder the state’s already sluggish economy. The state’s chief business lobby, the […]

Nearly one-third of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s solution to state government’s budget crisis hinges on a labor savings target more than five times the employee wage and health benefits concessions secured just two years ago. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget addressLinks to budget documents The $1 billion savings target Malloy proposed to help close a […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy not only spared Connecticut’s cities and towns from the budget axe, but set them up to gain $129 million in new annual revenue by 2013 through increased taxing powers and new shares of the state’s revenue streams. The governor, who served as Stamford’s mayor for 14 years through 2009, effectively called […]

Whether Gov. Dannel P. Malloy “shredded” the state’s safety net in his first biennial budget — as he has repeatedly pledged not to do — may depend on the perspectives of state legislators, advocates and Connecticut’s neediest residents themselves. But the state’s wide array of health care and other social services provided the one of […]

The long-promised move to more open and transparent budget principles turned out to be part of a much larger fiscal reform agenda unveiled Wednesday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The new governor also challenged state legislators in his new budget Wednesday to end the long-standing system of approving state employee contracts by default, to trim […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s first budget relies on an undefined, $1 billion labor savings and $1.5 billion in new taxes to help balance more than $19.7 billion in spending next fiscal year while sparing municipal aid from any major reductions. The plan also relies on $750 million in cuts to social services, higher education and […]

One of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s most familiar refrains on the campaign trail last fall was that while “everything is on the table,” his administration would not “shred the safety net” to close the state budget deficit. But when Malloy unveils his plan Wednesday to close a $3 billion-plus shortfall for the coming fiscal year […]

Republican state legislative leaders charged Tuesday that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s first budget proposal, which technically boosts spending 2.4 percent each of the next two fiscal years, isn’t frugal enough and piles $85 million in new municipal taxes on top of an already too-high $1.5 billion state tax package. But the administration fired back that […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy intends to propose one of the largest tax increases in state history Wednesday, seeking $1.5 billion in new annual revenue from income tax hikes on the wealthy and middle classes, and new sales taxes on clothing and other long-exempt products and services. In a plan outlined Monday to The Mirror by […]

Looking for a high-paying secretarial job? Your best bet would be state government. How about a university teaching post? Try the private sector. A new report from state legislative researchers shows government salaries tend to outstrip the private sector when less training or education is required, and swings the other way for highly specialized posts. […]

While Gov. Dannel P. Malloy insists that any income tax increase used to close the budget deficit can’t sacrifice Connecticut’s competitive advantage over its neighbors, a progressive coalition asserted Thursday that the state must forfeit some of that edge to spare vital programs from “devastating” cuts. The centerpiece of the Better Choices for Connecticut coalition’s […]

Though Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposal to merge state government’s environmental protection and utility regulation departments was met largely with initial optimism, House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero raised a potential red flag Wednesday afternoon. The Norwalk Republican specifically said he fears that merging the Department of Public Utility Control — which is overseen by […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy tried Wednesday to erase any doubt he may have created about sparing municipal education grants from the budget axe when he met with the mayors of Connecticut’s three largest cities–but he declined to talk about other local aid programs. Accompanied by Pedro Segarra of Hartford, Bill Finch of Bridgeport and John […]

Greenwich Republican Tom Foley used his new public policy forum Tuesday to decry a state income tax increase one week before Gov. Dannel P. Malloy — who defeated Foley last November — is expected to propose a plan to close the largest deficit in state history. In a paper titled “Don’t Kill the Golden Goose,” […]