A new outreach program designed to attract new students to Connecticut’s merged public college system also could determine whether system’s new $1.1 billion budget remains in balance over the next year.
Student outreach plan key to keeping CT college system in the black
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Can Connecticut keep its fuel cell edge?
Connecticut’s fuel cell industry is considered the best in the world. But extreme developments in the last several months are once again raising the question of whether the state still has its edge when it comes to the expanding global reach of the fuel cell business.
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Obama honors, jokes with Huskies
Washington – A relaxed and jovial President Obama honored the UConn men’s and women’s basketball teams basketball teams Monday at an elegant event in the East Room of the White House that showed the president was on his game.
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Backpack with Access Health data taken to House GOP office
The backpack containing personal information of clients of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange was left outside a Hartford deli where a worker from the exchange’s call center sat while waiting for a ride Thursday afternoon. The man who found it called the office of his state representative and later brought the backpack to the House GOP office.
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Malloy vetoes bills on tax circuit-breaker, fallen tree limbs
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy vetoed two more bills Monday, rejecting measures regarding the municipal property tax circuit-breaker program and the cost of removing fallen tree limbs.
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Digital Town Hall: Caregiving and Aging in Connecticut on Monday
Join The Connecticut Mirror on Monday, June 16, for its third Digital Town Hall event on ctmirror.org. The event, “Caregiving and Aging in Connecticut,” will be be moderated by Mirror health care reporter Arielle Levin Becker.
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Metro-North ‘crisis’ slow to build — with no quick fix
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy held a “crisis summit” Monday at Metro-North, but the surest time for preventing the latest service interruption on nation’s busiest commuter railroad most likely passed a decade ago during the waning days of the administration of Gov. John G. Rowland.
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Tobacco funds: Connecticut’s budget-balancing escape hatch
Connecticut has received nearly $2 billion in settlement funds from big tobacco companies in the past 15 years. Only a small fraction has gone to anti-smoking efforts. Instead, the fund has become largely an escape hatch when lawmakers need help balancing the budget.
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Washington Watch, Week of June 8
This week Congress will fight over the Bowe Bergdahl prisoner swap, and over how to find money to avert at a summertime highway-project funding “cliff” that could slow and even halt road projects in the state.
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Obamacare client data was in bag owned by vendor worker
The backpack found on a Hartford street with personal information about customers of Connecticut’s health insurance exchange belonged to an employee of the agency’s call center vendor, according to the exchange.
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Boughton makes public appeal to get Lauretti on ballot
Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton said Friday that his gubernatorial campaign needs to collect 1,482 more signatures by 4 p.m. Tuesday to get his running mate, Shelton Mayor Mark Lauretti, on the Republican primary ballot in August. Boughton won sufficient votes at last month’s convention to qualify for a three-way primary with Tom Foley and John […]
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Visconti ends GOP campaign to run as independent
Joe Visconti ended his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination Friday and opened a petition drive to get on the November ballot as an independent candidate.
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Access Health CT reports potential security breach
Access Health CT, the state’s insurance exchange, said Friday it is working with the Hartford police to determine the origin of a backpack found in downtown Hartford with personal information that appears related to some of its accounts.
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Connecticut and climate change: ‘We get it here’
Connecticut met an initial goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2010 and is on track to meet the next goal of going 10-percent those levels by 2020, according to a progress report issued Friday.
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Healthcare advocate wants hearing on Anthem rate request
State Healthcare Advocate Victoria Veltri has asked the Connecticut Insurance Department to hold a public hearing on Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s proposal to raise premiums for its individual-market health plans by an average of 12.5 percent next year.