Morna Murray, a social-services advocate and public-policy expert on the state and national level, was named Monday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy as the next commissioner of the state Department of Developmental Services.
Morna Murray to oversee CT developmental services
Posted inEducation
Top faculty tell legislators: No confidence in CSCU president
A group of distinguished professors notified legislators Monday they have lost confidence in Gregory Gray, the president of the state’s largest public college system.
Posted inMoney, Politics
Lembo backs Malloy’s assessment of smaller CT deficit
State Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo gave Gov. Dannel P. Malloy a big vote of fiscal confidence Monday, certifying that Connecticut’s $89.4 budget shortfall is well below the emergency level of one percent, or $174.6 million.
Posted inHealth
A Super Bowl ad pushes for talk about domestic violence and sexual assault
Chances are most people watching the Super Bowl – and the ad about domestic violence that ran during the game – know someone who experienced domestic violence or sexual assault. But they might not be aware of it. “Despite the vast numbers impacted by these crimes, people are not talking about them,” said Virginia Witt, director of the campaign behind the ad. So what will change that?
Posted inHealth, Politics
Blumenthal wins on veteran suicide prevention bill
Washington – With an average of 22 veterans committing suicide every day, U.S. Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and John McCain, R-Ariz., teamed up to try to do something about it — and Senate colleagues on Tuesday voted unanimously to help.
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Op-Ed: Access to health care, education services, still unequal
Far too many people in the black community face unequal access to proper health care and education services.
Posted inMoney, Politics
State continues to shrink backlog of ‘whistleblower’ complaints
State government continues to reduce its backlog of employee “whistleblower” complaints, the state auditors reported Friday, whittling the pending case list down by almost 70 percent since 2008. Auditors John C. Geragosian and Robert M. Ward also used their annual report to the General Assembly to call for tighter controls on bid purchases, lost state property, and ethics violations reporting.
Posted inHealth
Key tax forms delayed for 3,600 Connecticut Obamacare customers
Connecticut’s health insurance exchange has delayed mailing 3,600 customers the forms that will be needed to file their tax returns, and might not send them out until the end of February.
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NRA fails to block judicial nomination of ‘anti-gunner’
The Connecticut legislature Friday ignored an NRA campaign to block the judicial nomination of a former legislator who co-sponsored the post-Newtown gun controls, voting overwhelmingly to confirm Auden C. Grogins of Bridgeport as a judge of the Superior Court.
Posted inPolitics
Malloy Administration names new labor-relations chief
Lisa Grasso Egan, a labor lawyer with a history of representing municipalities and government agencies, was named Friday as the state’s undersecretary for labor relations.
Posted inEducation, Money, Politics
Malloy, GOP hold cards close in deficit showdown
The partisan debate over the state budget deficit might best be described as a poker game — in which neither side will show their cards.
Posted inCT Viewpoints
Op-Ed: Paint-by-numbers education yields paint-by-numbers results
Education reform in Connecticut has a paint-by-numbers quality that, while stifling creativity and individualism, produces paint-by-numbers results. It is time to think more clearly about what is motivating this so-called reform and who stands to gain from it.
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Op-Ed: Paint-by-numbers education yields paint-by-numbers results
Education reform in Connecticut has a paint-by-numbers quality that, while stifling creativity and individualism, produces paint-by-numbers results. It is time to think more clearly about what is motivating this so-called reform and who stands to gain from it.
Posted inPolitics
A struggle for high ground on campaign reform in CT
The General Assembly’s Republican minority moved Thursday to shape the debate on Connecticut’s system of publicly financing campaigns, demanding that Democrats close loopholes undermining the state’s clean-elections law. The GOP offers itself as the savior of a system whose creation was opposed by most Republicans.
Posted inPolitics
Murphy named to five Senate appropriations panels
Washington – Sen. Chris Murphy said he’s been named to five Senate Appropriations Committee panels.
He will sit on appropriations subcommittees with authority over the budgets of the Department of Transportation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development; the State Department, the Commerce and Justice departments, military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs and a panel that has jurisdiction over Congress’ operating budget.