Todd Abrajano, who worked for a losing Senate candidate in Missouri, was announced Wednesday as Republican Senate candidate Linda McMahon’s third communications director in six week. Her last communications director, Tim Murtaugh, has left the campaign for undisclosed reasons. So did Erin Issac, who held the position before Murtaugh. Abrajano, a Yale graduate, was a […]
McMahon campaign hires new spokesman
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State announces locations for 10 new Family Resource Centers
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, along with other state officials, on Wednesday announced the selection of 10 new sites for school-based Family Resource Centers. “Expansions of Connecticut’s Family Resource Center network was a key part of the education reform legislation that we passed earlier this year,” Malloy told school superintendents from around the state at a […]
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Study panel fills its plate with major tax questions
Should Connecticut ease up on taxing gifts and inheritances? How about placing a cap on the total amount of tax credits doled out to businesses? And what can the state learn from the companies that receive tax incentives without scaring them over the borders? These topped a list of questions — not recommendations — a […]
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Correction (Aug. 21, 2012)
The following correction was published to the story titled “Report: Connecticut companies, CEOs, don’t pay fair share of taxes”: Correction: Jeffrey Boyd, CEO of Norwalk-based Priceline, benefited when the top income tax rate dropped from 39.6 percent to 35 percent. An earlier version of this story misstated the top U.S. income tax rate. The story has […]
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Officials do handsprings over USA Gymnastics’ 2013 return
Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra recalls the early morning practices he attended during the 2010 USA Gymnastics Championship held in Hartford. Following success in 2010, local officials announced Tuesday that the USA Gymnastics Championship will tumble back into Hartford in the summer of 2013. The event will be held Aug. 14 through Aug. 17, with competitive […]
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Report: Connecticut companies, CEOs, don’t pay fair share of taxes
Correction: Jeffrey Boyd, CEO of Norwalk-based Priceline, benefited when the top income tax rate dropped from 39.6 percent to 35 percent. An earlier version of this story misstated the top U.S. income tax rate. The story has been corrected. Washington — Travelers is among 26 large U.S. companies that paid their CEOs more than they paid […]
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Gasoline prices rise as fall election season nears
Democratic state legislators appeared to be out of luck this summer in their bid to make relief at the gasoline pump a campaign issue. Almost immediately after capping a volatile tax that jacks up gasoline prices when wholesale costs escalate, those costs plunged between April and early July — the time they traditionally rise to […]
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Bridgeport recycling facility hungry for more mattresses
Bridgeport — At a new, 14,500-square-foot facility in Bridgeport’s South End, three men spend their weekdays deconstructing old mattresses to be recycled. “I enjoy myself,” said 44-year-old Angel Morales, who walks from his house a few blocks away to arrive at the plant at 5:30 each weekday morning. (Since there’s no air-conditioning, the employees like […]
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Connecticut’s challenge: retaining scientists while building a bioscience hub
In 2007, Jim O’Malley was laid off by Pfizer Inc. as the pharmaceutical giant started abandoning research and development operations in southeastern Connecticut. With more than a decade of experience as a research scientist, he decided to start his own small drug discovery company, Myometrics, in New London. Seeking another job was not an option […]
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Task force recommendation: more municipal care for trees
In the year since Tropical Storm Irene battered the state, Connecticut’s trees have come to be regarded as instruments of evil. They’ve been blamed for the extensive power outages caused by both Irene and the October snowstorm two months later, and utility companies have since been sawing away at the roadside forest around their transmission lines. […]
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‘The toughest enemy’
Lisa Chedekel of C-HIT.org writes on the state’s investigative health website this week that the total number of soldiers who committed suicide in July — 38, including 26 on active duty — is the highest since the Army started reporting monthly statistics in 2009. Chedekel reports that Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, vice chief of […]
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A tool for healthy lives
An excellent story on the state’s nonprofit health website C-HIT.org (Connecticut Health Investigative Team) on the Community Health Index, a way to measure an area’s health. Writer Magaly Olivero says the nonprofit Connecticut Association of Directors of Health developed the index “to measure seven ‘social determinants’ – economic security, employment, housing, education, community safety, civic […]
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DCF failing some foster children educationally, advocates say
After running away from her abusive family, Crystal Griffin spent years attending school at the group homes where the state sent her to live. She knows firsthand the quality of the education foster children get when the state is your parent. “There was nothing hard about it,” said Griffin, who is now 19. “They may say it’s […]
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She won the primary, but can she win over labor?
With a $2 million bankroll and heavy advertising, Elizabeth Esty won the high-profile Democratic primary for the 5th Congressional District. Now, she has to win a quieter, if still crucial campaign for the support of organized labor. The first test will come Wednesday when the Connecticut AFL-CIO’s political committee meets to consider transferring its backing […]
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Paying to reform how the state cares for abused children: Feds say state missing out on big pot of money
Connecticut has made significant strides in reducing the number of abused and neglected children in foster care, but its achievement is costing it millions of dollars in federal aid. Over the last five years, the state’s Department of Children and Families has reduced the number of children in state custody by 20 percent, officials say, […]