By: Georgia Lobb In today’s exponentially growing tech world, consumers can be overwhelmed by the amount of information and services to choose from. This doesn’t exclude commuters. GoCanvas.com lists over 500 transportation-themed applications, which are all designed in some way to help you with your commute. There are more than 100 apps for the MTA […]

Gun-control advocates moved forcefully Friday to stop what they fear is an attempt to stop a proposed ban on the possession of large-capacity ammo magazines of the kind used in the assault on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. Connecticut Against Gun Violence began a publicity and lobbying blitz to shore up support for a […]

Move over, North Carolina. There is new validation of decades-old claims that the first powered, sustained and controlled flight took place in Bridgeport, Conn., rather than Kitty Hawk. The pronouncement has Bridgeport’s mayor ecstatically recommending that the state get new license plates reading “First-er in Flight.” New research this week prompted the internationally-renowned publication Jane’s […]

State legislative leaders Friday released copies of federal subpoenas served on the General Assembly last fall as part of the investigation arising from the arrest of top officials in the failed congressional campaign of former House Speaker Christopher Donovan, D-Meriden. The subpoenas were released with the consent of federal prosecutors, who say their disclosure no […]

Significant economic challenges still face Connecticut, meaning significant political challenges for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. But two pieces of good economic news came his way Friday, and he was happy to trumpet them. The state Department of Labor revised its employment numbers upward, giving Malloy a midterm number of about 22,000 private sector jobs created […]

Connecticut’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.1 percent to open 2013 after the state gained 4,700 jobs in January, the state Labor Department reported Friday. And though public-sector job growth remains weak, more than 2,900 new professional and business jobs helped Connecticut reach a new employment high in its sluggish climb from the last recession. The […]

New Britain — Everyone was polite. Even as they accused Gov. Dannel P. Malloy of ignoring the Second Amendment, of violating his oath, of wanting to put a local gun manufacturer out of business, of secretly wanting to confiscate their guns, they were polite. Malloy came to New Britain High School for a community forum […]

The Board of Regents Thursday announced the three finalists to run the state’s largest public college system. Faculty and students will have a chance to meet the candidates Monday or Tuesday in Hartford. The finalists were selected from 29 applicants. “These three were clearly the most outstanding,” board Chairman Lewis J. Robinson Jr. said in […]

Washington — As soon as the Senate Judiciary committee approved a bill Thursday that would ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazine clips, planning began to split the legislation to improve chances some of it would become law. The panel took the action three months to the day after 20-year-old Adam Lanza used a high-capacity, semi-automatic […]

Legislators considering changes to mental health policies have gotten an earful from parents who’ve learned the hard way how challenging the mental health system is. They’ve heard about lengthy wait times to see child psychiatrists because the state doesn’t have enough, how insurance doesn’t always cover the services a child needs, or won’t cover them […]

As Gov. Dannel P. Malloy faces mounting skepticism about the funding cuts made to the state’s public colleges and universities, he is pointing to reductions in higher education elsewhere in the country in defense of the cuts he has made here. A new report from a national group, however, says that when factoring in the […]