Hoping to ramp up Connecticut’s bioscience industry, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy Thursday proposed spending $200 million in state funds over the next 10 years to attract and invest in more bioscience companies. Malloy made the announcement at a large groundbreaking ceremony held in a heated, white wedding-style tent for the billion-dollar Jackson Laboratory for Genomic […]
Malloy proposes $200 million plan to attract more bioscience
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Unemployment falls, but 2012 ends with no job growth
The state’s unemployment rate fell for the second month in a row in December, dropping to 8.6 percent, even though Connecticut lost 1,800 jobs, according to a report Thursday from the state Department of Labor. That’s because the state’s labor pool — which includes those employed as well as those actively seeking employment — fell […]
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Malloy meets with Biden
Because he had pressing business at home, Gov. Dannel Malloy could not accept Vice President Joe Biden’s invitation to come to Washington Wednesday to attend President Obama’s release of an ambitious package of proposals aimed at curbing gun violence. But Malloy traveled to the nation’s capital to meet with Biden on Friday. “It’s just a […]
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Got 30 credit hours? A universal approach to provide college courses
College officials have been told for years that students too often are losing credits when they transfer from a community college to a four-year state college. That may soon change. The Board of Regents for Higher Education — which oversees the state’s dozen community colleges and four state universities — in September approved a sample […]
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Tuition increases likely to be voted on in March
The board governing the state’s largest public college system will likely vote in March for tuition increases. Regents on the executive and finance committees were told last week that tuition would need to increase by 12.4 percent — or $1,375 for students living on campus — just to close the current deficit and continue providing […]
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Lieberman to advise Sandy Hook charity as tally reaches $8 million
Former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman is advising the transition of an ad hoc Sandy Hook fund to a formal charity that will decide how to dispense $8 million donated since the shooting deaths of 26 students and staff at Sandy Hook Elementary a month ago. “I am honored to be asked to provide counsel to […]
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Regents approve one raise, will use existing policies for others
The Board of Regents on Thursday approved a $24,000 raise for one of the system’s top officials and heard that the 17 other raises for central office staff mistakenly approved by the previous system president will remain stalled. Chairman Lewis Robinson Jr. told the regents at their monthly meeting that the system will rely on […]
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Malloy to make big economic development announcement at noon today
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is expected to make a major economic development announcement at noon today at a groundbreaking ceremony for the Jackson Laboratory research institute next to the UConn Health Center in Farmington. The Governor’s office did not release further details about the announcement, which will be made before about 200 dignitaries, researchers, civic […]
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Connecticut News Project, WNPR collaborate on new civic engagement initiative
Heather Brandon has joined The Connecticut News Project as Director of Civic Media, a new position responsible for the News Project’s efforts to promote civic engagement throughout Connecticut.
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More money for bridge repairs — but not much
Thirty years after the deadly Mianus River Bridge collapse, hundreds of bridges on Connecticut’s local roads are deemed to be in “poor” condition by the state — and many have not been inspected in more than two decades. Gov. Dannel Malloy’s proposal Wednesday to borrow $15 million for bridge repair and maintenance this year will […]
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One year later, towns not shielded from budget cuts
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and House Speaker J. Brendan Sharkey gave town leaders reason to believe Thursday that cuts in state funding are headed their way. “There will be some pain going around,” the Democratic governor told small town leaders at a conference in Cromwell Wednesday. “It is probably unlikely that we are going to be […]
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Newtown school official helps Dems on gun control
Washington – Dozens of House Democrats listened raptly to the testimony of Newtown School Superintendent Janet Robinson, some wiping away tears, at a hearing Wednesday on gun violence. Robinson calmly gave the panel of lawmakers a chillingly detailed account of the day in December that resulted in the shooting deaths of 20 small children and […]
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Municipal officials add voices to gun-control debate
Connecticut’s mayors and first selectmen tried Wednesday to broaden the gun-control conversation beyond the shocking circumstances of the Newtown mass murders to the below-the-radar realities of every-day gun violence. The shootings of 26 children and educators by a 20-year-old with a semiautomatic rifle is fueling an unprecedented push for new legislation in state capitals and […]
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Connecticut reacts to Obama gun initiative
“In the hours after the worst of our fears were confirmed, in the midst of the grief and sorrow over the loss of 20 innocent children and six dedicated educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there was one question on the minds of people across Connecticut and around the nation: How do we make sure […]
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Obama tightens gun controls, predicts resistance to other proposals
Washington — President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious, broad-ranging package of gun proposals Wednesday, touching off what’s expected to be a massive battle with gun-rights advocates the president predicted “would gin up fear” of a “tyrannical all-out assault on liberty.” Obama singled out the parents of 7-year-old Grace McDonnell, one of the children slain in […]