The Senate overwhelmingly stymied a bid Thursday by Connecticut’s judges to remove their salaries from political debate, dramatically scaling back a measure creating a new judicial compensation study panel. The bill, which now heads to the House of Representatives, still would ensure that any pay raises the panel endorses for judges would be included in […]

The state Senate overwhelmingly approved a measure late Wednesday guaranteeing communities can negotiate working conditions with labor unions before public projects are put out to bid. The measure allowing so-called “project labor agreements,” spurred in part by a legal battle over school construction work in Hartford, passed 32-3 and now heads to the House of […]

Washington — West Hartford-based Colt Defense LLC has lost an $84 million Army contract to a competitor and, like an increasing number of federal contractors, it’s not taking rejection sitting down. In awarding the lucrative contract for 70,000 to 100,000 rifles, the Army Contracting Command preferred the bid of Remington in Ilion, N.Y. That prompted […]

You don’t see this every day: The speaker, majority leader and minority leader all on the losing side of a 74-69 vote in the state House of Representatives. On a bipartisan vote, the House on Thursday gutted a bill aimed at loosening the requirements for bringing a medical malpractice lawsuit, an issue that has sharply divided […]

At a Polish Day observance, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy bent low today to greet a seated Mary Heslin, a member of the administration of Gov. William A. O’Neill in the 1980s. He didn’t quite make the same effort with Susan Bysiewicz. Malloy and Bysiewicz were together — more or less — for the first time […]

After a lengthy debate centered on patient privacy, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a proposal to develop a statewide database of medical, dental and pharmacy claims information aimed at getting a comprehensive view of health care usage, cost and quality. The measure, which now goes to the Senate, passed largely along party lines, […]

When state officials removed Alixes Rosado from his home in Hartford as a child, his first question wasn’t about  why he would no longer see his mother. He wanted to know when he would get to see his brothers and sister again. The answer, as he would soon spend the next 11 years of his […]

Though Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is trying to see the fiscal glass as half full, key legislators tied to budget talks conceded this week that many of Malloy’s top initiatives may have to be scaled back, delayed, or cut altogether. Though three fiscal offices confirmed a $200 million deficit in the current $20.1 billion budget […]

Key Democratic lawmakers have bristled at the governor’s proposal to scale back a Medicaid program that serves some of the poorest adults in Connecticut. But in light of new budget figures released this week showing that the state has a nearly $200 million budget deficit, some said they’re willing to consider changes. “We’ll probably have […]

Legislation that would make Connecticut the first state to mandate the recycling of used mattresses passed the Senate on Wednesday afternoon and is now headed for action in the House. The bill uses an environmental model called extended producer responsibility, EPR, a principle of the broader concept of product stewardship, in which producers take responsibility […]

State Treasurer Denise Nappier’s first deputy treasurer lasted nearly 12 years. The second one, not quite 14 months. Jonathan Harris, 48, a former state senator from West Hartford, is resigning as deputy state treasurer, effective May 17. “I’m leaving to pursue other opportunities,” Harris said. No word on a successor.