Like Connecticut, Florida, Georgia and Texas have aging working populations. But unlike Connecticut, those three southern states are attracting younger, highly educated professionals who will replace older workers when they retire. As soon as 2015, the size of Connecticut’s working age population will peak, and those replacing the state’s retiring workers will be disproportionately younger […]
Income, race and working population trends: a perfect storm for Connecticut?
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A negative + a negative = a positive, right?
Is it negative to note that your opponent won’t pledge to stay positive? Oh, these things get tricky. As we reported yesterday, House Speaker Chris Donovan urged the Democratic field in the 5th Congressional District to swear off negative ads. Elizabeth Esty demurred. Today, Donovan sent out a fundraising appeal, noting Esty’s refusal (without naming […]
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Obama tells Malloy, other governors, to stop cutting school money;
Wrapping up their visit to Washington Monday, Gov. Dannel Malloy and dozens of other governors received an earful from President Obama about their cuts to education. “I realize that everybody is dealing with limited resources,” Obama said, according to White House releases and pool reports. “But there’s no excuse to lose sight of what matters […]
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Through pilot program, small practices become “medical homes”
A pilot program has helped 13 small Connecticut primary care practices achieve recognition as patient-centered medical homes from the National Committee on Quality Assurance, a certifying organization. The medical home model has become increasingly popular in medicine, and supporters believe it could improve patient care while controlling costs. Practices that use the model take a […]
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Donovan tries to bar negative ads in 5th CD primary
Southbury — House Speaker Chris Donovan endorsed an expansion of Medicare and a voluntary ban on negative ads at a forum Sunday for the four candidates seeking the Democratic nomination in the 5th Congressional District. Elizabeth Esty is with him on Medicare, not so much on the ad pledge. Esty was the only one of […]
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Protest march draws 350 plus to East Haven
Close to 350 community activists, immigrants, local leaders and residents marched down Main Street in East Haven Saturday, hoping to draw attention to issues of alleged racial profiling in East Haven’s police department. Marchers called for an end to alleged racial profiling Flanked by a heavy police presence, the group carried signs and shouted slogans […]
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Bioscience investments help recruit new UConn Health Center chief
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s $864 million plan to expand and renovate the UConn Health Center netted university President Susan Herbst more than a few notes from other university leaders who were shocked that any state would invest so much in an academic medical center in this economic climate. This week, it helped UConn land a […]
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Dr. Liu makes the case for genomics and personalized medicine
Hopes for the future of “personalized medicine” lie at the heart of the state’s investment in a new research institute for The Jackson Laboratory on the UConn Health Center’s Farmington campus. Proponents often talk of developing the ability to tailor treatments for cancer and other complex ailments to each person’s unique genetic code. But as Dr. […]
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Malloy at the White House: A surrogate is born?
Washington — In town for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association — and to strengthen his ties to the Obama administration — Gov. Dannel Malloy can’t hold back his enthusiasm for the president. Upon leaving the White House Friday after a meeting with President Obama, a group of Democratic governors was asked by […]
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Warnings escalate over funding for Clean Elections
The state’s election cops intensified their warning to legislators Friday that their ability to oversee public campaign financing this fall is in jeopardy from deep budget cuts. The State Elections Enforcement Commission needs nearly double its existing contingent of account examiners if it hopes to monitor a projected caseload that includes nearly 340 campaign grants […]
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Working families squeezed by housing costs in state
Washington — Janet and Quan Hightower are middle-income homeowners in Hartford who, like a rising number of working families, are finding it hard to keep up with housing costs. A new study says the Hightower family is one of 137,000 in Connecticut spending at least half their income on housing. The Hightowers, who have four […]
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Survey on teachers who don’t belong in the classroom
“We all know there are teachers in the classroom who don’t belong there.” That was the message Gov. Dannel P. Malloy brought to legislators this week to sell his education reform package to them. A survey released Friday by the New Haven education reform group ConnCAN indicates teachers and other educators agree. Fifty percent of […]
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Physician, cancer biologist to lead UConn Health Center
A physician who leads Wake Forest University’s Comprehensive Cancer Center will become the next dean of the UConn School of Medicine, the university announced Friday. Dr. Frank M. Torti will also serve as UConn’s vice president for health affairs and will hold a professorship in the Department of Medicine when he joins the health center […]
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House restores local zoning over solid-waste facilities
Is skipping the normal vetting process the best way to correct a legislative mistake made six years ago? By a vote of a 120 to 8, the state House of Representatives declared Thursday night that it was. The House approved and sent to the Senate an “emergency-certified” bill that restores local regulatory control over solid-waste […]
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Lieberman latest target in terror-by-mail campaign
Washington — Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is the latest target of a terror campaign that involves packages filled with a powdery substance that initial testing have shown to be harmless. The senator’s Hartford office received a suspicious package Thursday, and staffers quickly quarantined it and called local and Capitol Hill authorities, said Lieberman spokeswoman Whitney […]