State prison guard supervisors, one of two bargaining units that rejected the 2011 state employee concession package, overwhelmingly rejected an effort to replace the union that has represented them for the last nine years, according to unofficial results. The bargaining unit, which includes 428 supervisors within the Department of Correction, voted 182-37 to remain with […]

Thousands of Connecticut students are expected to enroll in for-profit colleges this upcoming school year, and according to a new report, most will not graduate. Nevertheless, they will be charged more for tuition than they would have been at a nearby public college, and taxpayers will pick up much of the cost in the form of […]

Washington — The federal government’s prohibition on funding abortion services sets up a new range of problems for Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration when Connecticut implements the next phase of the Affordable Care Act. The Affordable Care Act requires all states to come up with a basic health-care coverage plan that insurers must offer, at a […]

Standing alone, Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, called Tuesday for a bipartisan legislative inquiry into whether the federal investigation of House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan’s congressional campaign has unearthed corruption within the General Assembly. The recent indictment of Donovan’s former campaign manager, Joshua Nassi, and six others describes an exchange of emails about legislation […]

More than 50 photos of Connecticut politicians are scheduled to be on display at the Legislative Office Building starting Wednesday morning. The photos by Stamford photographer Tim Coffey capture these public servants — former and present — in settings of their choice. The collection is known as “Connecticut’s Political Landscape” and is Coffey’s second exhibition at […]

Danbury — When Mayor Mark Boughton talks about his city’s downtown revitalization zone, he sometimes calls it “La Zona.” It is hard to know whether he is being flip or sincere, considering that his city has been less than welcoming toward its Spanish-speaking population in the past. But this much is certain: Engaging the city’s […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is a former prosecutor, and he has praised federal prosecutors for moving quickly in their investigation of illegal campaign contributions to the congressional campaign of House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan. On Tuesday, he again called their performance “remarkable.” But with the Democratic primary fast-approaching on Aug. 14, Malloy also gave a […]

New London — The series of four Democratic debates for U.S. Senate concluded Monday night with Susan Bysiewicz repeating a discredited line of attack on Chris Murphy that he is the top Democratic congressional recipient of Wall Street cash. Murphy said Bysiewicz’s inaccuracies are the defining issue of the race, not any difference over their […]

An administrative law judge has issued a decision on two issues raised in a hearing on the controversy between New Jersey-based HealthBridge Management and the employees of five Connecticut nursing homes. Some 600 employees of the homes have been on strike since July 3 to protest what they call unfair labor practices. Administrative Law Judge […]

For three and a half years at the Danbury Health Care Center, Margaret Bunblasky received the best of care — until the recent nursing home strike, her daughter says. Now Bunblasky’s daughter, Linda Bunblasky-Cioffoletti, cannot help thinking that the contentious stand-off between HealthBridge Management and its nurses’ union hastened her mother’s death. As a result […]

The congressional campaign of Connecticut House Speaker Christopher G. Donovan was hit Friday with a new attack ad and more bad news following the indictment of his former campaign manager. A prominent national political handicapper has reassessed the district race as more competitive for Republicans. The Rothenberg Political Report dropped its rating for the 5th […]

Secretary of the State Denise W. Merrill notified Connecticut’s top Republicans Friday that Democrats will remain at the top of the ballot this fall, and that she disagrees with their legal argument that the GOP earned the top spot based on the 2010 gubernatorial results. In a letter to Republican leaders in the state House […]