Easy to miss in the flurry around the Two Storms Panel report earlier this month was an idea called microgrids. A jargony techno-term, a microgrid is a small electric grid with its own generation source. It normally operates linked to the main electric grid, but when that suffers widespread interruptions, as Connecticut’s did during Tropical […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy secured Connecticut’s investment in a major genetic research initiative Monday — but not before one more partisan debate. The State Bond Commission voted 8-2 to release $291 million, which will pay to build a new 173,000-square-foot research center for The Jackson Laboratory on the University of Connecticut Health Center campus in […]

Connecticut’s election web site scores a 58 on a 100-point scale, with “low usability” and “lack of content,” according to a study by the Pew Center on the States. But big changes are coming, including a precinct-by-precinct election reporting system that the state hopes to test in April and use publicly in August to gather unofficial […]

The retiring chief of the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling used one of his final appearances before the legislature to press Monday for several new safeguards to accompany any new online gaming program. Executive Director Marvin Steinberg and his successor, Mary A. Drexler, also praised Gov. Dannel P. Malloy for recommending that a portion of […]

As a publicly financed candidate for governor in 2010, Dannel P. Malloy could accept no contributions of more than $100 and was barred from accepting donations from lobbyists or business owners doing business with the state. But Malloy is free to help raise money from those sources in his roles as finance chairman of the […]

East Haven — At a news conference Monday morning at town hall, Mayor Joseph Maturo announced that Chief of Police Leonard Gallo — named in an ongoing federal investigation of discriminatory policing — would retire at the end of the week. East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo “His decision to retire at this time is a […]

Sen. Edith G. Prague, D-Columbia, returned to the State Capitol on Friday for the first time since her stroke on Christmas, showing no ill effects and pronouncing herself a candidate for re-election this fall. “I am running for my seat. There’s no question,” Prague said after attending a press conference on home health care. “Too […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced plans Friday for a second round of agency consolidations, including combining oversight for the University of Connecticut, its health center and the chief medical examiner’s office. Malloy, who discussed the proposed changes during his noon conference call from Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Economic Forum, will ask […]

Pension concessions granted by unionized state employees last year will provide just over one-third of the $4.8 billion savings projected by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration, nonpartisan legislative fiscal analysts reported Friday. The Office of Fiscal Analysis also reported that it thinks the pension fund will gain about $3.6 billion over the next two decades […]

If President Obama has his way, the money that colleges receive from Washington will soon go to schools that can lower their tuition or at least hold it steady. That may be a problem for Connecticut’s 17 public colleges, which have almost doubled tuition and fees over the last decade and have already approved tuition […]

Our governor does like to control the public conversation. A little more than a half-hour before his scheduled noon conference call from Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Economic Forum, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office announced plans for another round of agency consolidations, including a merger of UConn and UConn Health Center. “Last […]

It’s not necessarily more popular as a Sunday afternoon activity, but gay marriage gets more support in Minnesota than the prospect of publicly financing a new stadium to keep the Vikings. The same PPP survey asked about both issues. A constitutional amendment legalizing same-sex marriage is supported by 48 percent of repondents, while only 46 […]