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If the new Trump rule is implemented, thousands of Connecticut schoolchildren would lose free lunches, too.
The state will give $25,000 each to Hartford, Bridgeport and New Haven to put more officers on the streets. State police will also be deployed to the cities.
Rep. Jim Himes, who will question Robert Mueller Wednesday, says the former special counsel is '"a very careful person."
But so far, the state's new health commissioner, Renee Coleman-Mitchell, is taking pains to remain outside the political fray.
The latest twist in the "emoluments clause" case against President Donald Trump has put on hold 37 subpoenas to Trump businesses.
Three days after pledging to override Gov. Ned Lamont’s veto of legislation crucial to an ongoing legal battle between restaurants and their workers, House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz reversed himself Monday.
Gov. Ned Lamont and his fellow Democrats are sparring once again over Connecticut’s credit card.
Gov. Ned Lamont checked off a key box on his budget to-do list Thursday, announcing a deal with state employee unions to refinance payments into the workers’ pension fund.
Connecticut lost 1,400 jobs in June as government employment dropped sharply, the Department of Labor reported Thursday.
A new analysis from Moody’s Investors Services showed that Connecticut's debt is worse than that of nearly all other states.
On June 6, the Connecticut Siting Council approved construction of an unneeded power plant which will use fracked ‘natural’ gas and will emit over 2 million tons of CO2 yearly. This plant is to be sited in Killingly in the Quinebaug and Shetucket Valley National Heritage Corridor, upstream from an existing power plant which more than meets the needs of the region.
Oh, everyone in Hartford is still doing the usual square dance, posturing and politicking, but I doubt a special session to vote on tolls will ever happen: tolls are dead. But ‘lest the anti-toll forces should start to rejoice, they may have won this battle but the war is far from over. Because when tolls go down to defeat, there are still plenty of “Plan B” options, none of which you (or they) will like.
The revolving door between the newsroom and the Connecticut statehouse is spinning once again. On July 22, NBC Connecticut’s political reporter Max Reiss will become Gov. Ned Lamont’s new communications director.
Toni Boucher and her former Republican colleagues are pushing a “solution” to Connecticut’s transportation funding woes with their go to strategy of borrowing more money. Excessive borrowing used to be anathema to the Republican Party. What happened? Do Republicans, like Boucher, think they can hide the real cost of more borrowing? Connecticut taxpayers know better. They will be paying increased taxes for decades to come with the Republican’s debt plan.
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