Washington — President Obama’s new budget request would be tough on Connecticut’s hedge fund managers and its defense industry. But it could provide a lift for the state’s community colleges, small manufacturers and doctors. Obama on Monday sent Congress a $3.8 trillion budget for 2013 that’s likely to intensify election-year battles over spending and taxes. […]

More than 70,000 Connecticut households took advantage of a new tax credit for the working poor during just the first month of state income tax filings, according to the Department of Revenue Services. The claims filed under the new state Earned Income Tax Credit were hailed both by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration and a […]

When animated television tyke Lisa Simpson had to announce a tax increase to the American public, she deftly called it a “temporary refund adjustment,” avoiding any mention of the three-letter T-word. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration stole a page from The Simpsons last week, repackaging a projected deficit in his new budget as a conditional […]

Can the untamed zeitgeist of Occupy Wall Street be channeled into electoral action? To find out, a prominent Connecticut political organizer is leaving the state to take on a national role with an expanding Working Families Party. Jon Green, 38, the executive director of the labor-backed Connecticut WFP, whose fusion politics helped elect the first […]

The Connecticut Supreme Court adopted a congressional redistricting plan Friday that makes minimal changes in the state’s five U.S. House districts, and it ordered the legislature to pay the court-appointed special master who produced it a fee of $36,400. The only news was the fee charged by Nathaniel Persily, the Columbia law professor chosen as […]

Washington –President Obama’s turnaround on his contraceptives policy for religiously affiliated institutions has failed to win over the Catholic bishops in Connecticut, but it won praise from prominent state Democrats who were drawn into an election-year debate that the party hopes will fade. “(It) indicates that (Obama) saw a need to review the current edict […]

The state’s vocational and agricultural schools were largely left out of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plans to increase funding and expand enrollment in nontraditional public schools. “They forgot about us again,” Bill Davenport, director of one of the state’s 19 agricultural programs, said. While the state has spent more than $200 million to build the […]

The State Board of Education unanimously approved a system to grade teachers and principals Friday, noting that the next step will be implementation. Read more about the details for these evaluations here and here.

Mitt, Newt, Rick and Ron were formally placed on the Connecticut Republican primary ballot today. Now, will any of them drop by before the polls open at 6 a.m. on April 24, a primary date that once seemed to consign Connecticut to political irrelevance this cycle? Four years ago, a small pool of delegates did […]

Deb Heinrich is leaving her post as the Malloy administration’s liaision to the nonprofit providers of state services, a new job that the administration trumpeted as the first of its kind in the nation. No word on why or if she has another job. The administration announced her departure today in a press release that […]

Teachers aren’t the only ones who will soon be graded and put on a path to improve or be dismissed. A plan to evaluate the state’s 1,200 principals is also moving forward, and will likely be approved by the state’s Board of Education Friday. “There will be a state model for principals,” Education Commissioner Stefan […]