The Connecticut Board of Regents of Higher Education Thursday approved higher student fees to help pay for new construction projects, including a new $81.9 million dormitory at Central Connecticut State University. The new plan is estimated to increase student fees by 3 percent each year for the next 25 years — beginning at about $30 […]

Updated Friday, Oct. 19, 2:19 p.m. Norwalk — Conversation was fast-paced and lively Thursday in the second debate between the candidates for Connecticut’s 4th Congressional District seat -– but Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Jim Himes and Republican challenger Steve Obsitnik struggled to articulate their differences. Unlike at last week’s debate, which focused on foreign policy, panelists […]

Attorneys representing Medicaid recipients are seeking an injunction to stop the state from moving forward with plans that could cause up to 13,000 poor adults to lose health care coverage. They argue that the changes the state is pursuing could worsen delays in processing paperwork for all Medicaid recipients and applicants. The motion, filed in […]

The state’s budget deficit might be wider than reported based on new, shrinking revenue projections from nonpartisan analysts. While the new estimates from the Office of Fiscal Analysis were not scheduled to be released until shortly after the November elections, the top Republican in the House of Representatives requested an update now, arguing that any […]

After climbing dramatically in late summer, Connecticut’s unemployment rate appears to have stabilized in September, dropping from 9 to 8.9 percent as the state gained 2,000 jobs, the state Department of Labor reported today. “An increase in jobs and a drop in the number of unemployed were positives for this month,” said Andy Condon, director […]

Southington mother Cathy Morrelli told a nightmarish tale of fighting to keep her suicidal daughter hospitalized. She says her 14-year-old was in and out of the hospital repeatedly over the last five months, their insurance company trying — 13 times — to cut every stay short. Diana Leyden of Glastonbury testified about her insurance company’s […]

Diane Olsen wants to tell federal officials face-to-face why she visits state Department of Social Services’ offices six times a year with the same paperwork. The 69-year-old Willington woman said that making the half-hour drive to Windham to show paperwork she previously hand-delivered — but that the agency never entered into its computer system — […]

Board of Regent members on the panel with the job of sorting out the trio of controversies that hit the 17-college system in recent weeks met Wednesday to begin mapping out a plan to avoid future missteps. “I’d like to put a spotlight on what is the power that the president of the Board of […]

Have you ever missed your train because you didn’t know what platform it would be arriving on? I have – and it’s infuriating. It’s happened to me more than once in New Haven, where the train to Grand Central usually leaves from track 14 – but not always. At Penn Station – one of the […]