A onetime foe joins the Malloy administration

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s choice of Sharon M. Palmer as his next labor commissioner helps heal political wounds with organized labor by his public embrace of Palmer, the blunt and irreverent union president who fought him over education reform. Labor leaders, administration officials and legislative staff applauded Palmer as she glided into a press conference […]

In response to the Aug. 5 mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal on Tuesday called for specific tracking and counting of incidents of violence and intimidation against Sikhs. At press conference Tuesday morning at the state Capitol, Blumenthal said acts of bigotry and hatred directed against religious groups are […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is turning to Sharon Palmer of Waterford, the leader of a teachers’ union that battled the governor over elements of his education reform plan, as his next commissioner of labor. The Malloy administration, which is set to announce the appointment this afternoon, had no comment. But the choice of Palmer was […]

With strong support from independents, Republican Linda McMahon leads Democrat Chris Murphy by three percentage points in the race for Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat in Quinnipiac University’s first poll of likely voters in 2012. The poll released Tuesday found President Obama leading his GOP challenger, Mitt Romney, by a surprisingly close seven points, 52 […]

For what it’s worth, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee says a poll it commissioned from Global Strategy Group has Democrat Elizabeth Esty up 44 percent to 35 percent over Republican Andrew Roraback in the 5th District, where most everyone expects a tight race. Global’s memo on the poll is here. The 5th is an open […]

It’s a footnote in a Quinnipiac University poll that focused on the presidential and U.S. Senate races in Connecticut, but the state is still evenly divided on the job performance of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy as he edges closer to the mid-point of his first term. The short version: The rich and poor think he’s […]

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Tampa, Fla. —  As they socialized Monday on a truncated first day of the Republican National Convention, Connecticut’s delegates kept their eyes on a strengthening Tropical Storm Isaac, which drenched Tampa as it brushed by this Gulf Coast city on a track towards the Louisiana coast. Projected to reach hurricane strength before landfall, Isaac led […]

When measured against its sluggish economy, Connecticut’s huge bonded and pension debt ranks worst among all states, a leading Wall Street publication asserted this week. But while Barron’s, a financial weekly published by Dow Jones & Co., wrote that growing debt in most states is changing how some investors look at the municipal bonds, it […]

Transportation is heavily financed by public money in the form of subsidies or direct taxes. But those sources are never a certainty — illustrated by a New York judge’s ruling last week that could end the state’s payroll mobility tax. The tax, and four other related fees that the judge also deemed unconstitutional, contribute nearly […]

Under fire for two prolonged blackouts last year, Connecticut’s largest electric utility named William P. Herdegen III, a 35-year industry veteran with a focus on transmission and distribution operations, as its top executive Monday. Herdegen, who served most recently as a vice president of Kansas City Power & Light, succeeds Jeffrey Butler as president and chief operating officer […]

Terry Edelstein, a social-services advocate for 30 years at the State Capitol, was named Monday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy as his liaison to the private non-profit agencies that Connecticut pays $1.2 billion annually for a wide range of services to 500,000 residents. Edelstein, 63, will assume a cabinet-level post responsible for trying to coordinate […]

East Haven — On a morning he described as a “10,” Andy Weinstein and his cousin Sara-Ann Auerbach stood on the stretch of Cosey Beach the two have shared for decades. Just short of a year after Tropical Storm Irene reduced Weinstein’s home to rubble and sent half of Auerbach’s into the water while toppling […]