Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is proposing to fund more supportive housing and other services for people with mental illness, boosting annual mental health spending by $4.25 million in the next fiscal year and by another $3 million the year after.
Malloy proposes mental health funding boost, police training
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Malloy criticizes Metro-North on new outage
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy personally expressed his frustration Friday morning to the MTA’s chairman, Tom Prendergast, over the previous evening’s power outage that stranded commuters on all three major Metro-North lines. “The power outage on the New Haven Line last evening was totally avoidable and frankly, unfathomable given that it occurred due to inappropriate actions […]
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Rowland backs Jepsen’s settlement efforts
The lawyer defending former Gov. John G. Rowland and his budget chief, Marc Ryan, against a lawsuit by unionized state employees said Friday that his clients are now backing a settlement effort by Attorney General George Jepsen.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Politics
DEEP’s new boss has a Ph.D. in trash
Robert Klee, 39, is the mild-mannered protégé of the hard-charging mentor he will succeed, Daniel C. Esty. He is set to take over one of state government’s highest-profile agencies and brings to the commissioner’s office a varied background in environment law, science and public policy. Klee is a man who can wax rhapsodic about “transformative efforts on waste.”
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Malloy wants state to spend more on school security
New Haven — As students and visitors at Wilbur Cross High School pass through metal detectors and are searched for weapons, an overhead security camera allows police to constantly monitor the school’s entrance. After the fatal shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the district installed cameras in every school, linking them to the nearby police […]
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Malloy hints CT could get a tax cut
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered his strongest hint yet Thursday that he might propose some tax cut in two weeks when he delivers his latest budget plan to the legislature.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Politics
Top aide to succeed Esty at DEEP
Robert Klee, a Yale-educated environmental lawyer and policy expert now serving as chief of staff to Commissioner Daniel C. Esty, will succeed Esty as the leader of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, sources say.
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Republicans propose ‘honest’ tax cuts for Connecticut
House Republicans have proposed $247 million in consumer and business tax cuts – moves they insist won’t worsen the big budget deficit projected for next year. In a press conference Thursday, GOP lawmakers said they want to give small businesses a one-time break on their unemployment assessments, accelerate the return of a sales tax exemption on clothing, and restore another exemption for over-the-counter medicine.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
CT climate change center in the works
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Friday will unveil plans for a new Institute for Community Resilience and Climate Adaptation as an all-purpose resource for municipalities, individuals and other private and public groups in need of assistance to plan for climate change.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Money
FAA: Fewer flights at Bradley make less noise
Washington – Bradley International Airport has gotten quieter. At least that’s what the airport has told the Federal Aviation Administration, which approved a new noise map this week that shows the area affected by the noise of Bradley’s flights has shrunk significantly over the past five years.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
No vortex, but power use again in polar spike
Alerts are posted on the New England power grid and natural gas prices are spiking again as another cold wave hits the region.
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Following complaints, UConn adds two new positions to investigate sexual assaults
The University of Connecticut Wednesday released job announcements for two newly created jobs to investigate allegations of sexual assault and harassment. These positions follow the filing of a complaint and lawsuit against the university by a group of students who say UConn mishandled their accusations of sexual assault last fall. “The newly formed position of Lead Title IX […]
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Report: 22 million U.S. women have been raped
Nearly 22 million women in the U.S. — one in five — have been raped, as have almost 1.6 million men, according to a new report released by the White House.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
As Esty exits, some worry, some hope
In fact many are concerned about his departure, worrying that no successor will have the breadth of expertise Esty had across energy and environmental subjects, and some fear a backsliding, especially in regional energy initiatives.
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