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.

Republican legislative leaders say that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plan to divert the state’s long-term debt payments to close the swelling current budget deficit won’t play on Wall Street. Why? Because just two months ago the state cited its efforts to pay down its debt as evidence that it was getting its fiscal house in […]

Connecticut no longer will be dry on Sunday. With the governor committed to signing the bill into law, the Senate voted 28-6 Tuesday to give final legislative approval to a measure ending the state’s longstanding ban on Sunday liquor sales. The bill, which cleared the House of Representatives last week, heads to Gov. Dannel P. […]

The state Senate’s Democratic majority is at least four votes shy of passing a compromise minimum-wage increase approved last week by the House of Representatives, leaving one of the House speaker’s key bills on life support in the annual session’s final seven days. Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams Jr., D-Brooklyn, said he texted […]

East Hartford — William Tong’s exit from the U.S. Senate race Tuesday was gracious and timely, calculated to keep him in good standing with a Democratic establishment that the transparently ambitious Tong intends to court again. “This was my first statewide campaign,” said Tong, a three-term state legislator from Stamford, whose effort introduced him to […]

William Tong withdrew from the race for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate today and endorsed the frontrunner, U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy, at a press conference where Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman also formally backed Murphy. Tong, a three-term state representative from the governor’s hometown of Stamford, said he will seek re-election […]