State says thousands of children to lose day care subsidies

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What cuts loom at your community college or regional university?

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“This is a very challenging budget that we are looking at,” said Mark Ojakian, the president of the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system. “Times of crisis are a time of opportunity. We are going to have to do business differently. We are not going to be able to sustain even this level of funding in the future. It’s going to be tough.”

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Ganim, Gomes and Moore keep things complicated in Bridgeport

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Summer is coming to Bridgeport, where the living never is easy, not in even-number years, not for Sens. Edwin A. Gomes and Marilyn Moore. On the day after the Democratic machine denied Gomes and Moore its backing for another term, Mayor Joseph P. Ganim lavishly praised them at a public ceremony Tuesday – taking care to stop well short of an endorsement.

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On outs with Sanders and labor, is Malloy still a progressive?

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The stated cause of Bernie Sanders’ displeasure with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy as co-chair of the Democratic platform committee stems from his being one of Hillary Clinton’s “aggressive attack surrogates,” not deficiencies as a progressive politician. But controversy over Malloy’s suitability as an arbiter of the Democratic agenda coincides with a budget controversy in Connecticut that’s fueling a reappraisal of the man once described by The Daily Beast as the “progressives’ dream governor.”

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Voter registration at the DMV — a train wreck in the making

by Craig Hoffman

The state DMV intends to create a system whereby anyone who goes to get a driver’s license or renew one at a DMV office will automatically be registered as a state voter at the same time. The state is responding to a Federal compliance issue, though the s0-called “Motor Voter” law encourages (but does not mandate) voter sign-up at DMV offices. This proposed project seems to me to be a solution in search of a problem, with the final result being a train wreck at the end of the journey for the following reasons:

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New rule: Curbing state spending or masking looming deficits?

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy insists recently adopted legislation that restricts how nonpartisan staff report future budget trends — including deficits — will help ensure state spending doesn’t increase “on autopilot.” But the measure places no restrictions on what the legislature can propose or adopt, nor will it prevent legislators from obtaining the material nonpartisan analysts will not be able to publish in one high-profile report.

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