With a renewed effort to erode their resources and autonomy, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is attempting the most dramatic makeover of the state’s watchdog agencies since their creation as post-Watergate reforms in the 1970s. Malloy is proposing to consolidate and place under the supervision of a gubernatorial appointee the legal staffs of three autonomous agencies […]

State employees are off for Lincoln’s birthday, but other commuters are expected to return to the roads in force Tuesday, testing urban centers plagued by scarce parking and roadways still constricted by the weekend’s record snow. Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven and Waterbury labored Monday to clear streets with the state’s most in-demand assets: bucket loaders […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy ordered state offices closed Monday to limit traffic in municipalities still struggling to clear local roads of a weekend snow fall that reached a record 40 inches. A major utility offered a bit of good news — the expectation of a complete restoration of power by midnight Sunday. At his televised […]

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney’s highlighting an inaccuracy in Steven Spielberg’s hit movie, “Lincoln,” is generating Washington buzz and Hollywood blowback, drawing the mild-mannered Connecticut congressman into the world of Oscar intrigue. With the start of final Oscar voting Friday, an amused Courtney is being asked if his fact-checking was intended to defend a slighted predecessor, […]

Blizzard conditions are expected to leave Connecticut’s highways impassable well before the evening commute Friday, prompting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to order non-essential state employees to stay home Friday. The National Weather Service says light snow will begin Friday morning and turn heavy in the afternoon, with gusty winds dropping visibility to less than a […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today will propose a property tax-exemption on most motor vehicles and a phased-in restoration of the popular sales-tax exemption on clothing that he eliminated in 2011, his first year in office. Administration officials briefed mayors this morning on the car-tax plan, but it was not immediately clear if the state was […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget address Wednesday effectively opens his 2014 re-election campaign, highlighting investments made and priorities set to revive Connecticut’s economy, while glossing over fiscal and political liabilities. Over 37 minutes, Malloy struck a humbler, more conciliatory tone than in previous speeches, a departure for a governor who too often has played the […]

Like many Connecticut moviegoers, at least those who are politically minded, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, was surprised to see two members of the state’s House delegation depicted as voting to uphold slavery in Steven Spielberg’s well-received movie, “Lincoln.” “I could not believe my own eyes and ears,” Courtney wrote in a letter to Spielberg. […]

Leo C. Arnone is calling it quits in April after working nearly four decades in Connecticut’s prisons and criminal justice system, rising through the ranks from correctional officer to a commissioner appointed by a Republican governor, M. Jodi Rell, and reappointed by her Democratic successor, Dannel P. Malloy. “I have served this great state for […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy nominated a Chicago prosecutor as the state victim’s advocate Friday, ending speculation over whether Michelle Cruz, an appointee of his predecessor, would win a new term after months of tension between her and the Malloy administration. Malloy’s choice is Garvin Ambrose, 35, the executive assistant state’s attorney and legislative liaison for […]

The General Assembly’s Judiciary Committee voted 40-0 Friday to recommend the confirmation next week of Carmen Espinosas as the first Hispanic justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. Espinosa, 63, is a former FBI agent, federal prosecutor and judge of the state’s two lower courts.

Organized labor began its push to increase Connecticut’s minimum wage Thursday without any sign that a political establishment solidly controlled by a Democratic governor and legislature is ready to boost an $8.25 wage that last increased three years ago. Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney, D-New Haven, testified at a public hearing in support of a […]