State wins federal funds to reunite homeless parents with their children

There are hundreds of Connecticut famalies whose children live in foster care because their parents have no home. For 50 of those families, things are about to change. Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration announced Thursday that Connecticut has been awarded $5 million in federal funds that will reunite 50 families by providing them with affordable housing and […]

State government continues to occasionally use money reserved for capital projects to cover operating bills, and then returns the funds later — a practice several critics acknowledged Wednesday isn’t illegal. Neither, they conceded, is it costly. In fact, it effectively allows the state to borrow funds more cheaply than it could if officials sought a […]

One of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s three appointees to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority today is a lawyer with a stellar resume — and a well-known father and uncle. Nuala Droney is a graduate of Yale and the University of Virginia School of Law, named by one publication as a rising star in business litigation […]

With a new ad agency on board, the U.S. Senate campaign of Democrat Chris Murphy began an advertising counterattack Wednesday against Republican Linda McMahon, saying the image she is selling “isn’t real.” The commercial is the first produced for Murphy by Message & Media, a new agency the Murphy campaign hired to replace Struble Eichenbaum. […]

Americans for Prosperity — a controversial group linked to the conservative Koch brother billionaires — made an impromptu political debut Wednesday during a press conference held by prominent Democrats. It came as a long line of lawmakers and clean-election advocates at the state Capitol called for the reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens […]

Connecticut’s Supreme Court got a history lesson Wednesday as it tried to sift through the sticky legal question of which party’s candidates should get the top spot on the November ballot. The state Republican Party, whose 2010 gubernatorial nominee Tom Foley collected the most votes on any single ballot line, insisted again that it deserves […]

In a late night conference call from China, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy described his trade mission Wednesday as an overdue effort to strengthen ties with a nation that has the world’s fastest-growing middle class and trillions in capital to invest. “I don’t think we have competed on an equal footing with other states,” said Malloy, who […]

With the state now spending a quarter-million-dollars a year responding to concerns about the exploding black bear population, environmental officials are considering proposing a regular bear-hunting season for the first time in the state. “Conflicts with humans are increasing every year,” said Jason Hawley, a wildlife biologist with the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection […]

A study by the Wesleyan Media Project suggests that President Obama’s upward tick in the polls is due to advertising, not the assumed post-convention bounce. “In the past couple of weeks, Obama advertising has outpaced Romney advertising by more than a two to one margin,” said Erika Franklin Fowler, co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project. […]

Premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage in the United States rose 4 percent over last year, a modest increase compared with recent years but still higher than the 1.7 percent growth in workers’ wages, a national survey found. “A 4 percent increase is a low increase, and it is good news,” Drew Altman, Kaiser Family […]