Despite the state’s huge impending budget deficit, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy has unequivocally pledged to shield some large areas of spending from cuts. Beyond that, he has made strong statements of support for a variety of other programs, leaving at least some advocates with an expectation that they, too, would be spared the budget […]

NEW BRITAIN — Former gubernatorial candidates Ned Lamont and Oz Griebel found it much easier Monday to tackle the state’s budget crisis, now that their respective bids for state government’s highest office is over. Ned Lamont, left, and Oz Griebel on the deficit: Easy to talk about now (Keith M. Phaneuf) Lamont, who was reluctant […]

TORRINGTON — After months of sparring over the state’s budget crisis, gubernatorial contenders Dan Malloy and Tom Foley entered the campaign’s final full week daring each other to show all of the fiscal cards. And when they weren’t demanding details about tax hikes or spending cuts, the candidates spent much of the rest of Monday’s […]

From the start, Tom Foley’s pledge to close the largest budget deficit in state history without tax hikes depended on economic factors that made it all but unachievable without considerable good fortune. But after recent pledges to safeguard billions of dollars for education, Medicaid and early childhood development – and to restore funds for tourism […]

With less than two weeks to do before Election Day, Gov. M. Jodi Rell entered the campaign fray for the first time this week, appearing in a new radio spot for Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Foley. The lame-duck governor, who is on pace to hand off a $3.26 billion deficit for the next fiscal year to her successor, said in […]

NEW HAVEN — Connecticut’s gubernatorial candidates split Monday over how to make the environmental watchdog process more efficient without putting the state’s populace and natural resources at risk. During a Yale University forum sponsored by the Connecticut Fund for the Environment and nearly a dozen other environmental advocacy groups, Democrat Dan Malloy stopped short of […]

The Democratic incumbents in Connecticut’s two closest Congressional battles, Jim Himes and Chris Murphy, both entered the election season’s final month with a financial advantage over their GOP challengers, according to the latest campaign finance reports. Himes, a former Greenwich Democratic town chairman who captured his first term representing the 4th District two years ago, […]

It looks like a huge gift for the next governor, but the latest state revenue projection turns out to be less than meets the eye. Fiscal analysts for the legislative and executive branches released a new forecast on Friday projecting $601.2 million extra for the budget’s General Fund next fiscal year–when a built-in shortfall of […]

Next year’s state budget deficit could worsen by hundreds of millions of dollars if  state social services officials are correct that Connecticut’s Medicaid costs will skyrocket by nearly $1 billion starting in July. A preliminary budget request from the Department of Social Services particularly tosses a fiscal wrench into Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Foley’s plans […]

GREENWICH–Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley got some free advice Thursday, along with a financial boost, from one of his party’s rising stars, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Fresh from resolving an $11 billion budget deficit in his own state this fiscal year, Christie came to the Hyatt Regency to join Foley and about 170 guests […]

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley hopes a 21-year-old legal opinion charts a path for Connecticut’s next governor to reduce unionized state employees’ salaries and benefits, regardless of whether workers voluntarily offer givebacks. But the memo, drafted by former state Attorney General Clarine Nardi Riddle, strongly cautions against such a move, warning that unless an array […]

NEW LONDON — Connecticut’s gubernatorial contenders spent most of their second live, televised debate either making promises, avoiding them, or predicting when their opponent would break his word. Democrat Dan Malloy and Republican Tom Foley squared off on taxes and spending, union concessions and the death penalty in their one-hour forum at The Garde Arts […]

The University of Connecticut announced Tuesday it has canceled the Oct. 20 gubernatorial forum planned in cooperation with the Connecticut Daily Newspapers Association because Republican candidate Tom Foley declined to attend the event. Democrat Dan Malloy and Independent Party candidate Thomas Marsh had agreed to participate, but UConn spokesman Michael Kirk said organizers only planned to hold the event if all […]

MILFORD–What was supposed to be a rally turned out to be more of a pit stop. Hundreds of Linda McMahon supporters packed the town green Saturday afternoon waiting to hear Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown draw parallels between his upset victory in Massachusetts earlier this year and McMahon’s chances in her battle for with Attorney […]

Democratic U.S. Reps. Joseph Courtney and Rosa DeLauro enjoy comfortable, double-digit leads over their Republican challengers in Connecticut’s 2nd and 3rd congressional districts, according to a new CT Capitol Report poll. Courtney leads former television news anchor Janet Peckinpaugh 55 percent to 41.3 percent in the 2nd District, which encompasses most of the eastern half […]