Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned his department heads Tuesday he will ask lawmakers to consider emergency spending cuts in May if the administration cannot erase a small deficit in the current state budget — which closes on June 30 — over the next month. “I just ask you to take every step you can,” the […]
Malloy will ask lawmakers to make emergency cuts if deficit lingers into May
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Connecticut insurers take on risky challenges of climate change
Washington — Whether you believe in climate change, your insurance company is making you pay for it. The nation’s insurers are grappling with their risks in the face of the increasing number of weather-related catastrophes. “As a major property casualty insurer, we are continually monitoring, anticipating and reacting to changing climate conditions across all of […]
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Rapid response: McMahon hits back with her own poll
Linda McMahon has responded to an unsettling Quinnipiac University poll with an internal survey that shows her with great favorables and a 21-percentage point lead over her rival for the GOP Senate nomination, former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays, R-4th District. (The Shays campaign says caveat voter: McMahon portrayed her internals as showing a dead heat […]
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How are the community and state colleges like a cemetery?
Just a few months on the job as the first president of the recently merged state and community college systems, Robert A. Kennedy told the governor Tuesday it’s like working in a cemetery. “You have a lot of people under you but nobody is listening,” he joked during the monthly state commissioners meeting with Gov. […]
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Governors and education reform
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy isn’t the only governor attempting to use his political capital to get some major changes to education. Education Week has a nice rundown on how governors from other states are doing as their legislative sessions near their end. The headline for the Nutmeg State’s section reads, “Backlash in Connecticut.”
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Two approaches to reform: Compromise and conflict
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has made it clear that he does not want the state to wait for a consensus with special interest groups before moving forward on the changes he has proposed to the state’s public schools. Some state legislators showed Monday night they have other plans. “I hope it’s something we can all […]
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Advocates: Malloy plan ‘betrays spirit’ of reforms
National clean-election advocates added their voices Monday to local critics of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposal to allow publicly financed candidates to accept unlimited dollars from corporate and other private interests if they are outspent. “It certainly betrays the spirit of the law,” Nick Nyhart, president and chief executive officer of the Washington, D.C.-based Public […]
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Supreme Court begins arguments on landmark health care law
Washington — Inside the Supreme Court on Monday, the justices appeared to be in rare agreement on the rejection of a technical issue that could stall consideration of the constitutionality of the federal health reform law.
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Malloy’s tenure reforms get major rewrite by committee
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plans for education reform got a dramatic rewrite Monday by the legislature’s Education Committee, but the changes are only one step in a process that some leaders say will end with high-level negotiations by top lawmakers and the administration. Clerks for the Education Committee head into a closed-door meeting with the […]
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Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, reprogramming the brain
Sid Yudowitch planned to become a motivational speaker when he retired. He already gave speeches as a member of Toastmasters, the public speaking organization. At work, he was the guy who got calmer the harder things got. Then his brain stopped working, or so it seemed. Doctors couldn’t explain why. Work seemed harder and took […]
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Malloy meets with Navy secretary
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy met at the Pentagon Monday with Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, a former governor of Mississippi, to talk about the future of the submarine base in Groton. “My administration — in cooperation with Connecticut’s congressional delegation — has been closely monitoring the Department of Defense proposal to conduct a new BRAC process, […]
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Malloy on the road again, this time to an energy summit
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is back on the D.C. shuttle, this time to keynote an energy summit in Arlington, Va. His staff announcement says he is addressing the “Transportation Energy Partnership’s 2012 Energy Independence Summit, where he will discuss clean energy solutions and how the state and municipalities can partner to improve the state’s clean […]
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State to boost importance of science standardized tests, though critics say not enough
New Haven — Sixth-grader Miguel Marrero loves science. It’s no accident that he attends the Mauro-Sheridan Science, Technology and Communications Interdistrict Magnet School. But most of Miguel’s school day is devoted to English and math classes, in large part because they are the subjects that the state’s standardized tests focus on, and because they are the […]
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Maryland governor’s defense of gay marriage gets boost in Hartford
Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland came to Hartford to headline a Connecticut Democratic fundraising dinner Friday night, but he will go home with checks for a campaign to save the gay marriage law he signed on March 1. O’Malley, 49, the chairman of the Democratic Governor’s Association, said the fundraiser was quickly arranged by his […]
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Mild winter doesn’t spare emergency heating program
Anti-poverty advocates say an extremely mild winter couldn’t undo all the damage from deep federal budget cuts to Connecticut’s heating assistance program. “In many ways this has been one of our most difficult years in trying to serve energy customers,” said Amos Smith, president of the Connecticut Association for Community Action. “I recognize this was […]