Some customers of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange say problems with the exchange-generated forms they need to file their taxes have left them unable to file their taxes just days before the deadline. If you’re in that situation, here’s what to do.
Some Obamacare customers will need to file for tax extensions
Posted inHealth, Money
As developmentally disabled face cuts, Southbury Training School under renewed scrutiny
Legislators are eyeing overtime costs at Southbury Training School as a way to save money in the tight budget for serving people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, but officials at the agency that runs the institution say those savings are unlikely to be achieved.
Posted inEducation
Faculty leaders pitch no-confidence vote in president
Faculty unrest at the state’s four regional universities and community colleges is once again rising, and faculty leaders are asking the staff at each institution to consider taking a vote of no-confidence in the system’s president, Gregory Gray.
Posted inEducation
For ‘nontraditional’ community college students, aid needs take many forms
Responding to job market demands for a college degree, nontraditional students often lead hectic lives and struggle to cobble together sources of aid to stay in school, including scholarships, grants, and services such as counseling, day care and food assistance.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Great need, great opportunity, for educational advancement in Connecticut
At a time when coalitions, community groups, faith-based leaders, educators, and parents across the state are committed to addressing educational injustice in significant ways, this is a moment of great need and great opportunity. We call on members of our Congressional delegation to move education in Connecticut forward, and not roll backwards.
Posted inEducation
Closing a campus: Who decides?
Closing a college campus is messy business, as affirmed this week by the public backlash after administrators decided to close Middlesex Community College’s satellite campuses in Meriden at the end of the semester. It wasn’t meant to be so disorderly.
Posted inMoney, Politics
Malloy uses ‘F word’ (not that one) at transportation rally
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who sees a need for $100 billion in transportation spending in Connecticut over 30 years, engaged in word play Thursday on the question of whether U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy is right to seek the first federal gasoline tax increase since 1993 to fund infrastructure projects.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Shot by relative, he still opposes firearm safety law’s expansion
In this second commentary in a series of opinions both in support and opposition to HB 6962, a firearm storage safety bill, the president of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League tells legislators how he was accidentally shot as a youth by a relative who was playing with a stolen gun. “The bullet hit my shoulder, hit my neck, lodged against my spine, hit the artery in my neck. … I lost the use of my arm. And I’m still here today to tell you that I believe that people need to be able to have access to their firearms in a way that they deem fit.
Posted inPolitics
Bank that boosts Connecticut exports under fire
WASHINGTON – For years Connecticut companies, large and small, have benefitted from a federally backed bank that helps them sell their goods overseas — but a bitter fight over whether the Export Import Bank is taxpayer-funded corporate welfare has put its future in question.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Bridgeport deserves hearing on bill to phase out coal-fired plant
Connecticut legislators have apparently decided not to hold a hearing on HB 6616, a measure that would phase out the use of coal to generate power and provide a smooth transition away from power plant jobs. The coal-fired Bridgeport Harbor Generating Station has been polluting the air for years, We demand evironmental justice and the right to be be heard on this bill.
Posted inNews
New program for CT women vets would be unfunded
The Senate voted unanimously Wednesday for a bill that creates an unfunded program for the 16,545 women living in Connecticut who are veterans of U.S. military service.
Posted inHealth, Money
Nursing home workers vote to strike, send message to both employers and lawmakers
Workers at 27 nursing homes have voted to strike later this month, a move aimed at both their employers and state lawmakers wrangling over a state budget that has significant implications for nursing homes.
Posted inEducation, Politics
Senate moves to rebuke Gray, stop Meriden campus closure
The Senate moved swiftly Wednesday to stop a surprise plan to close a community college satellite campus in a district represented by the co-chair of the legislature’s committee on higher education. On a unanimous vote, the Senate stripped administrators of the right to close any campus without legislative approval.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Expansion of Connecticut’s Firearm Safety Act is justified
The Connecticut General Assembly is currently considering HB 6962, an Act Concerning Firearm Safety, that will expand the state’s requirements for safe gun storage and set penalties for gun owners whose firearms fall into the wrong hands. This commentary from Connecticut Against Gun Violence is the first of a series of opinions in support and opposition to the bill. Others will be forthcoming in the days ahead.
Posted inEducation
Closing a Meriden campus just the beginning of college cuts
As public protests mount against the unexpected announcement that Middlesex Community College’s Meriden campus will close this spring, students and the public can brace for many more sudden cuts at the state’s community colleges and four regional universities.