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Hackers targeting health insurer Anthem gained access to personal information on tens of millions of current and former customers and employees across the country, including Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
The federal health law created some significant changes for tax filers, particularly those who didn’t have health insurance or who bought health plans through public health insurance exchanges like Connecticut’s Access Health CT. Here are a few things to know.
James Rovella was a Hartford homicide cop in the early 1990s, when Iran Nazario ran with Los Solidos, a gang quick to defend its drug turf with drive-by shootings. Rovella left the streets for management, eventually becoming chief. Nazario went to prison. On Wednesday, they shared the same table, listening to a governor talk about second chances.
This winter’s lesson is clear. Expanding natural gas pipeline capacity is a must to lower electricity costs in New England, as is importing large-scale hydroelectricity from Canada.
This winter’s lesson is clear. Expanding natural gas pipeline capacity is a must to lower electricity costs in New England, as is importing large-scale hydroelectricity from Canada.
Interested in preserving the public’s access to government information seems to have waned significantly among Connecticut lawmakers since former Gov. Ella Grasso first signed ground-breaking FOI legislation into law. More incumbent legislators should be signing the pledge to protect the public’s right to know.
Interested in preserving the public’s access to government information seems to have waned significantly among Connecticut lawmakers since former Gov. Ella Grasso first signed ground-breaking FOI legislation into law. More incumbent legislators should be signing the pledge to protect the public’s right to know.
WASHINGTON – As Senate Republicans pushed for approval of a bill that would block implementation of President Obama’s immigration policy changes, Quinnipiac student Maria Praeli traveled to the White House to help put a human face on the issue.
Utility and storage closets and “cell-like spaces” are some of the places students with autism and other special education needs are inappropriately put when they misbehave, according to an investigative report released Wednesday by the Office of the Child Advocate.
WASHINGTON – Sens. Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal held a joint press conference on the fatal crash between a Metro-North train and an SUV in Valhalla, N.Y. ; and though they were on the same telephone line, they weren’t always on the same page.
When adjudicating complaints of sexual assault among college students, determining whether there was consent is crucial, and two state legislators are proposing a bill they say would shift and clarify the standard for doing that.
Jack Miller, the president of Central Connecticut State University, came to the defense on Wednesday of Transform CSCU 2020 — the embattled reform initiatives being considered by the 17-college system. Miller’s email comes just two days after the 10 of the 11 “CSU Professors” — the highest designation faculty at Central, Eastern, Southern and Western Connecticut state universities can receive — co-signed a three-page letter in which they complain the system’s president is taking the schools down the wrong path.
The statewide advisory panel of high schools students told members of the State Board of Education Wednesday what they want — including later school opening times, fewer tests, and a mandatory community service requirement.
Tenet Healthcare and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Wednesday that they are ending discussions about the Texas company’s acquiring Connecticut hospitals.
With enrollment declining in many schools across the state, several members of the State Board of Education predict they will soon see more requests from local districts to combine into a regional school district. On Wednesday, the board got just such a request.
