Can the untamed zeitgeist of Occupy Wall Street be channeled into electoral action? To find out, a prominent Connecticut political organizer is leaving the state to take on a national role with an expanding Working Families Party. Jon Green, 38, the executive director of the labor-backed Connecticut WFP, whose fusion politics helped elect the first […]

Deb Heinrich is leaving her post as the Malloy administration’s liaision to the nonprofit providers of state services, a new job that the administration trumpeted as the first of its kind in the nation. No word on why or if she has another job. The administration announced her departure today in a press release that […]

Mitt, Newt, Rick and Ron were formally placed on the Connecticut Republican primary ballot today. Now, will any of them drop by before the polls open at 6 a.m. on April 24, a primary date that once seemed to consign Connecticut to political irrelevance this cycle? Four years ago, a small pool of delegates did […]

The Connecticut Supreme Court adopted a congressional redistricting plan Friday that makes minimal changes in the state’s five U.S. House districts, and it ordered the legislature to pay the court-appointed special master who produced it a fee of $36,400. The only news was the fee charged by Nathaniel Persily, the Columbia law professor chosen as […]

Meriden – To begin the job of selling his proposed education reforms, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy visited a school Thursday in a district with a young, dynamic superintendent and the challenges of student poverty and limited resources. Students stared wide-eyed as Malloy swept into classrooms at Benjamin Franklin Elementary, trailed by a retinue that included […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was greeted at his parking space this morning by advocates holding signs demanding affordable health care, but today’s State of the State address will have one sharp focus: establishing Connecticut and Malloy as a player in education reform. Over the past weeks, the Malloy administration has carefully built to today’s speech, […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy used a televised State of the State address Wednesday to jump into the thicket of teacher tenure reform, a popular issue with voters, yet fraught with potential pitfalls for a Democrat narrowly elected with the support of organized labor. In a speech to the General Assembly, Malloy framed his first year […]

On the eve of his second State of the State address, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy refused to go off-message, even if the topic was a favorable poll from a surprising source: a conservative think tank that often criticizes the Democratic governor. “I don’t want to talk about polls,” Malloy said. “We don’t comment on polls.” […]

Republicans made a final pitch today for a congressional district map more favorable to the GOP, asking the Connecticut Supreme Court to reject districts drawn by a special master who closely followed the court’s own guidelines. Ross H. Garber, an attorney for Republicans on the legislature’s Reapportionment Commission, acknowledged that Special Master Nathaniel Persily’s map […]

On its second try in less than a month at naming a new leader, the State Elections Enforcement Commission on Friday selected Michael J. Brandi of Hamden as its executive director and general counsel, a choice the commission hopes will quell a political storm. Brandi, 40, a lawyer in private practice, was the chief administrative […]

The State Elections Enforcement Commission has called a special meeting for 2 p.m. Friday to name a new executive director and general counsel from the pool of candidates that yielded the ill-fated choice of former Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano. The selection of Giuliano was rescinded over objections to the choice of a politician who was […]

House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan’s proposal to raise the state’s minimum wage by $1.50 over two years could give Connecticut the highest minimum in the nation, a distinction certain to fuel opposition to the idea by business interests and some legislators. But the proposal by the Democratic leader and congressional candidate to index the wage […]