(Updated at 6:14 p.m.) Gov. Dannel P. Malloy lifted the travel ban Saturday evening, but is asking residents not to leave their houses unless it is an emergency. Local roads across the state are expected to remain impassable for days as public works crews continue to deal with the aftereffects of the blizzard that dumped […]

Washington — The violence at Newtown will cast a shadow over President Obama’s State of the Union Address Tuesday as the president and other Democrats make their strongest plea for support from Americans for gun control. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announced Friday that she plans to bring a little girl who was affected […]

U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney’s highlighting an inaccuracy in Steven Spielberg’s hit movie, “Lincoln,” is generating Washington buzz and Hollywood blowback, drawing the mild-mannered Connecticut congressman into the world of Oscar intrigue. With the start of final Oscar voting Friday, an amused Courtney is being asked if his fact-checking was intended to defend a slighted predecessor, […]

So here’s what’s happening. Connecticut Transit buses will start shutting down service at 4 p.m. By 6 p.m. they’ll be completely suspended until further notice. (CT Transit buses cover New Haven, Hartford, New Britain, Stamford, Waterbury, Meriden, Bristol, and Wallingford.) Metro-North is totally changing its afternoon schedule. See details here: http://mta.info/supplemental/mnr/mnr_weather_info.html. You should really pay […]

Blizzard conditions are expected to leave Connecticut’s highways impassable well before the evening commute Friday, prompting Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to order non-essential state employees to stay home Friday. The National Weather Service says light snow will begin Friday morning and turn heavy in the afternoon, with gusty winds dropping visibility to less than a […]

It didn’t take long for the next state tax debate to begin. In the first 24 hours since unveiling his new budget, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has heard from state and local officials, including some from other states. Business and labor groups, social service advocates, Democrats and Republicans — everyone has a thought. Though the […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s effort to “streamline” his proposed two-year budget has left plenty of confusion in its wake. “I am being gentle,” Rep. Toni Walker, co-chairwoman of the legislature’s Appropriations Committee, told the governor’s budget chief Benjamin Barnes Thursday. “I know a lot of people have asked exactly how to read the budget.” At […]

Washington — House Democrats unveiled an ambitious package of gun control proposals Thursday that closely follow President Obama’s recommendations. But the move is largely a political overreach. At a press conference in Leesburg, Va., where House Democrats are on retreat, party leaders and senior members of a gun-control task force issued more than a dozen […]

That’s one of the main takeaways from Malloy’s budget announced yesterday when it comes to transportation. Read my story here: https://ctmirror.org/story/19049/transportation-budget.

Coming from a supposedly “pro-transportation” governor, the proposed budget of Dannel Malloy has a lot of transportation advocates confused. “It’s hard to follow the dollars here,” Joe McGee, of the Business Council of Fairfield County, said Wednesday afternoon. “I work with these numbers all the time. I know these budgets. And I’m confused. What am […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget address Wednesday effectively opens his 2014 re-election campaign, highlighting investments made and priorities set to revive Connecticut’s economy, while glossing over fiscal and political liabilities. Over 37 minutes, Malloy struck a humbler, more conciliatory tone than in previous speeches, a departure for a governor who too often has played the […]

After wading through a myriad of proposed cuts and grant increases Wednesday, both municipal officials and state legislators were fearful that communities would lose ground under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s new budget plan. While the municipal grants segment of the Malloy plan featured a mix of cuts and increases that largely balanced out, the governor’s […]