The Connecticut News Project’s fellowship program has graduated three talented journalists in the past two years.
Graduation time for CT Mirror’s fellowship program
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N.H. center with Communist tenant to get state aid
A New Haven community center whose bid for a state rehabilitation grant stalled due to its ties with the Communist Party has apparently won the blessing of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration. Malloy’s budget director, Office of Policy and Management Secretary Benjamin Barnes, confirmed Thursday that the center’s request for $300,000 to upgrade a facility […]
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Bysiewicz wants U.S. Senate race to turn on Wall Street
New Britain — From the opening seconds of a U.S. Senate debate carried live on public radio Thursday, Susan Bysiewicz cast U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy as beholden to Wall Street and a contributor to the dysfunction in Congress. It is a line of attack contradicted by left-leaning corporate critics like the Working Families Party and, […]
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Bysiewicz wants Senate race to turn on Wall Street
New Britain — From the opening seconds of a U.S. Senate debate carried live on public radio today, Susan Bysiewicz cast U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy as beholden to Wall Street and a contributor to the dysfunction in Congress. It’s been a hard sell. Her line of attack is contradicted by left-leaning corporate critics like the […]
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Report: Aging workforce threatens state’s economic recovery
By the time the state’s plodding economic recovery finally takes off in 2014, it could be too late to compensate for an aging workforce closing in on its retirement, says a report released today by the University of Connecticut. The Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis also repeated its call for state government to make smarter […]
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When economic news doesn’t fit the upbeat narrative
If there was any doubt that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is a glass-is-half-full kind of guy, it would be dispelled by the statement he issued today after Pratt & Whitney Aircraft announced the layoffs of 200 salaried employees in Connecticut. Except for the last paragraph, the governor was positively upbeat. “When these announcements are viewed […]
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Backus, Hartford Hospital parents moving ahead with affiliation plans
The parent companies of The William W. Backus Hospital in Norwich and Hartford Hospital are moving ahead with plans to affiliate, under an agreement that would make Backus part of the Hartford HealthCare network. Backus Corporation and Hartford HealthCare announced Thursday that they signed a memorandum of understanding and will now work on developing a […]
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Change of plans. Meetings creating teacher evaluations will be public.
After holding numerous meetings behind closed doors to finalize details on how teachers and principals will be graded, the State Department of Education has said the public and the media can attend the sessions from now on. “Something is different at this meeting. At this meeting — in the interest of transparency — the state […]
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Connecticut lawmakers suspend millions of dollars in import duties for local companies
Washington — There may be a ban on earmarks — those special measures lawmakers in Congress pass to help specific constituents — but Connecticut lawmakers are helping local companies in another, little known way: tariffs. Companies in Connecticut that are poised to benefit this year include the maker of luxury cashmere fabrics in Stafford Springs, the […]
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Lieberman challenges Secret Service chief on agency’s ‘permissive’ culture
Sen. Joe Lieberman and other lawmakers told Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan they don’t believe him when he says there’s no widespread misconduct at the agency. Sullivan spoke publicly about the drunken romp of Secret Service agents in Cartagena, Colombia, at a Senate Homeland Security hearing held by Lieberman, the panel’s chairman. A 29-year Secret […]
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CCAG endorses Murphy and Donovan in Democratic primaries
One of the state’s leading progressive advocacy organizations, Connecticut Citizen Action Group, announced endorsements Wednesday for Democrats Christopher Murphy and Christopher Donovan. Murphy, Connecticut’s 5th District congressman, picked up the endorsement of the Democratic State Convention two weeks ago to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by four-term incumbent Joseph I. Lieberman of […]
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The wheels on the busway go round and round
Hartford — Critics of the Hartford-to-New Britain busway have called the project a lot of bad things recently: “boondoggle” and “folly,” to name a few. On Tuesday, when breaking ground on the project, supporters of the $567 million busway got their turn to brand the project. The 9.4-mile road for buses will be called Connecticut […]
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Administrator sees progress in controversial merger of watchdog agencies
Despite a rocky first year, the controversial merger of state government’s nine watchdog agencies has achieved some success with the potential for more, the Office of Governmental Accountability’s executive administrator reported Tuesday. “I think there is good news: The business of the state of Connecticut continues,” David L. Guay told Gov. Dannel P. Malloy at […]
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Teacher evaluation panel moves its work behind closed doors
After a contentious public meeting last week on developing a new teacher and principal evaluation system, the state Department of Education has closed its meetings on the topic to the public and the media. Instead, a series of private “working group” meetings is scheduled to take place in the weeks before the panel’s June 30 […]
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Teacher evaluation panel takes its work behind closed doors
After a contentious public meeting last week on developing a new teacher and principal evaluation system, the state Department of Education has closed its meetings on the topic to the public and the media. Instead, a series of private “working group” meetings is scheduled to take place in the weeks before the panel’s June 30 […]