The governor’s budget director said Friday that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s $60 million spending proposal aimed at renovating and upgrading the buildings at the state’s largest public college system is just a down payment on what’s really needed.
Malloy budget chief: We want to spend more on colleges than proposed
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Op-ed: Invest in Connecticut’s children
Over the past two decades, Connecticut has committed less and less of its budget to young people.
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DSS would get more workers under Malloy plan
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget includes 103 new staff positions for the state Department of Social Services, which has faced litigation alleging that it doesn’t have enough workers to process Medicaid applications within the required timeframe.
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Analyzing Malloy’s budget? The Mirror invites you to annotate
Are you an accountant, nonprofit, lawmaker or just an interested reader who has been dissecting Gov. Malloy’s 2014 budget since its release Thursday afternoon? If so, The Mirror invites you to join the community, dissect and annotate. This is how:
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Blumenthal, DeLauro try to stop flood insurance increases
Washington – Saying more than 18,000 Connecticut homeowners will be socked with soaring flood insurance premiums, Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Rosa DeLauro are pressing the House of Representatives to pass a bill that would stop those hikes.
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How Malloy wants to pay for his higher education plans
While the governor spent a good part of his speech Thursday discussing his higher education initiatives, details of his $60 million plan don’t appear in the college and universities’ spending plans. This is because Malloy is using a budget loophole to get around the state’s constitutional spending limits.
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Winners and losers in the governor’s budget
Here’s an early look at who wins and who loses under the budget proposal Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled Thursday.
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Malloy decries budget gimmicks — but uses a few
Despite decrying the budget gimmicks of his Republican predecessors, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is employing some fiscal tricks himself, using $70 million in borrowing and other gimmicks to balance his latest spending plan.
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Malloy’s State of the State: ‘Real progress’ in Connecticut
In his fourth and final State of the State address before facing re-election, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy delivered a ringing defense Thursday of his response to an inherited fiscal crisis and a rebuke of critics whom he says refuse to acknowledge a slow, yet measurable recovery from recession.
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Malloy offers lean $19 billion re-election year budget
Updated at 2:02 p.m.: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered a $19 billion budget Wednesday that — among many other proposals — would give tax breaks to middle-income households, consumers and towns while limiting spending growth to just under 3 percent.
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Home care, Medicaid pay, inmate health care in Malloy proposal
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget expands home care programs, creates a new medical assistance program for ex-inmates and provides money to pay primary doctors who treat Medicaid patients. It doesn’t offer any respite to hospitals.
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Malloy proposes universal preschool access
The governor is proposing that every child in Connecticut have access to preschool by 2018.
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Malloy, legislators begin sprint to November as 2014 session opens
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and state legislators begin writing the narrative for their campaigns today as the governor delivers his budget address on the first full day of the General Assembly’s three-month election-year session.
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Dr. William Petit will not run for Congress
Dr. William Petit, who was thrust into public life by the murders of his wife and daughters in a home invasion in Cheshire, has ruled out a congressional run in a statement sent Wednesday to the Associated Press.
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General Assembly session opens, briefly
For the record: The Connecticut General Assembly met its constitutional duty of convening its 2014 session at 10 a.m. Wednesday, despite a snowstorm that largely shut down the state. All substantive matters, primarily Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget address, were postponed until Thursday, but the Senate and House gaveled in, formally opening the three-month session. […]