Former Congressman Rob Simmons is becoming chairman of the free-market Yankee Institute for Public Policy just as it is about to raise its profile by suing Gov. Dannel P. Malloy over a policy expanding collective bargaining. Yankee intends to file suit next week, challenging the legality of two executive orders that provide a path for […]

West Hartford — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy came to this high-performing school district Tuesday night to confront teachers who see his education reforms as little more than an overhaul of how educators are evaluated and paid. Malloy was met with hard stares and a few derisive chuckles when he insisted that his proposals to change […]

Lindsay Farrell, the political director of the Connecticut Working Families Party, was named today as the new executive director. She succeeds Jon Green, who has taken a national staff position.

Norwich — U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, D-5th District, handed the front-runner’s role in a three-way Senate debate Saturday night, gently pushed back at repeated criticisms by his two main rivals for the Democratic nomination, Susan Bysiewicz and state Rep. William Tong, D-Stamford. The pecking order of the three candidates at their first debate was clear: […]

In an age when merchants and libraries are accessible on smart phones, how easy should it be to vote? Should officials treat the electorate as valued customers, or should voters view elections as a civic duty, regardless of convenience? Secretary of the State Denise Merrill’s new push to modernize the machinery of elections and boost […]

Jeanne Milstein will get a say in naming her successor as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy named her today as his appointee to the seven-member advisory committee that will recommend a new child advocate. The appointment should allay the fears of some social-service experts that Malloy might effectively block the naming of a new advocate by […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy got the unscripted confrontations he wanted Thursday night at his first education forum: teachers willing to mix it up over tenure reform, and a Bridgeport parent and former official furious over the state takeover of that city’s troubled schools. In a community center in Hartford’s South End, the first stop on […]

TicketNetwork jumped out of the First Five program as it was about to be pushed. As a consequence of the arrest of CEO Donald Vaccaro, the company announced today it was withdrawing from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s signature economic development program at a loss of more than $6 million in state aid. “TicketNetwork is regrettably […]

Days after a public disagreement with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration over enforcement issues, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested 40 criminal aliens in Connecticut, the agency announced Wednesday. But the administration is making no claims of retaliation like those that dogged ICE in 2007, when agents rounded up illegal immigrants in New Haven […]

The Senate voted 22 to 12 on Wednesday for final passage of emergency legislation that negates a court decision involving a Milford project and restores local zoning control over solid-waste facilities. Overcoming a general aversion to curtailing home-rule, every Republican senator voted no except Sen. Kevin Kelly, R-Stratford, and Sen. Michael McLachlan, R-Danbury, whose city […]

A day after a compromise meant to neutralize liquor reforms as an issue, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will try today to further focus the press, public and legislature on education reforms that are his top priority in 2012. Malloy has overcome his staff’s resistance and intends to announce a series of free-wheeling education forums modeled […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has cooled toward Donald Vaccaro, the chief executive officer of TicketNetwork, a company the governor included in his “First Five” economic development program. But will it cost Vaccaro a deal with the state? Reacting to Vaccaro’s arrest at a Academy Award party in Hartford, Malloy said he has ordered a review […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today strongly defended his revised liquor reforms as a big step toward increasing competition in an industry now sheltered by state law to a degree that is “quite un-American.” As hundreds gathered in the adjacent Legislative Office Building for a public hearing on the proposal, Malloy told reporters that the state’s […]

Donald J. Vaccaro is stepping down indefinitely as head of TicketNetwork to seek alcohol counseling in the wake of his arrest Monday and a veiled threat Tuesday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to cancel a state aid package for his company. “I will be taking an indefinite leave of absence as CEO from TicketNetwork as […]