Yes, the state does need marketing help. A two-year, $22 million marketing campaign to establish a “brand” for Connecticut is something important to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, but the Department of Economic and Community Development chose to “launch” the effort with a late-in-the-day email blast to reporters today. The campaign will led by Chowder Inc., a New […]
At 4:03 p.m. on a Thursday, DECD ‘launches broad new marketing initiative’
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Going to the dogs
Sen. Richard Blumenthal has come to the aid of heroic pooches. At a Thursday news conference in Hartford, Blumenthal, a Democrat, rolled out a bill that would cut the red tape involved in adopting a military dog. These dogs are regarded by the Pentagon as “equipment,” requiring potential adopters to bear the cost of transporting […]
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Of caps and emissions and a program named Reggie
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative — the first-and-only-in-the-nation carbon dioxide trading and reduction program — has reached its first three-year compliance and evaluation cycle with mixed results. Total emissions from more than 200 plants in the 10 participating Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states were 34 percent below the cap at the end of 2011, according to preliminary calculations by […]
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Malloy names new task force to assess state’s business tax breaks
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy created a new task force Thursday to determine whether Connecticut is getting the best possible return on its tax breaks for businesses. Malloy issued an executive order to create the Governors’ Business Tax Policy Review Task Force, a nine-member panel that must report its findings to the administration by October. “Over […]
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Legislators sign on to health reform brief for Supreme Court
Forty-three Connecticut legislators have signed on to expressed their support for the federal health reform law through an amicus brief being filed on behalf of state legislators across the country. The legislators’ effort, organized by the Progressive States Network and the Working Group of State Legislators for Health Reform, is targeted at a challenge to […]
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UConn political scientist Howard Reiter dies
Howard Reiter, a UConn political scientist often quoted by journalists writing about elections, died Jan. 10 at his home after a long illness. He was 66. The university announced his death today. “Howard was the model of what a scholar-teacher should be,” said Mark Boyer, head of the UConn political science department. “He was a superlative […]
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Malloy backs performance standards, and penalties, for utilities
Simsbury — Writing new utility standards into law, complete with penalties for poor performance, topped a list of initiatives Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled Wednesday to enhance Connecticut’s readiness for future weather-related crises. The governor, whose Two Storm Panel outlined its own proposals earlier this week, also endorsed enhanced tree-trimming and related measures to better […]
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Malloy frames education reforms as human rights issue
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy promised today in a wide-ranging radio interview that his planned education reforms would be “the most far-reaching in our state’s history,” a bold assertion certain to raise expectations about how he intends to improve troubled districts in an era of tight finances. In a one-hour interview on WNPR’s “Where We Live” […]
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UConn Health Center says professor falsified data
A three-year investigation has determined that a tenured UConn Health Center professor who studied the benefits of a substance found in red wine fabricated and falsified data, the health center announced Wednesday. The university has started dismissal proceedings against Dipak K. Das, director of the Cardiovascular Research Center and a professor in the department of […]
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Gas stations at risk as state faces deadline to salvage anti-pollution program
State government is facing a deadline this spring to resolve an $80 million backlog in a fuel cleanup program — or risk hundreds of gasoline stations going out of business. But a state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection spokesman said the department already is mobilizing industry representatives, state legislators and the U.S. Environmental Protection […]
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The wisdom of raising expectations
No politician ever has got in trouble by lowering expectations. You hear and see it every day in the coverage of the Republican presidential campaign. (Google “Gingrich” and “expectations,” you’ll get 18.3 million results.) So why is Gov. Dannel P. Malloy raising expectations about his plans for education reforms in 2012? Everything is big, bigger […]
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UConn Health Center: Professor falsified data
A three-year investigation has determined that a tenured professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center fabricated and falsified data, the university announced Wednesday. The health center has begun dismissal proceedings against Dipak K. Das, director of the Cardiovascular Research Center and a professor in the department of surgery. It has notified 11 scientific journals […]
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Military overhaul to have mixed impact on Connecticut’s defense industry
Washington — President Obama’s plan to overhaul the military and trim hundreds of billions of dollars from the defense budget brings both good and bad news to Connecticut’s defense industry, lawmakers and analysts say. With the end of the Iraq war and U.S. involvement in Afghanistan winding down, Obama and the Pentagon have rolled out […]
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Milstein to retire as child advocate in March
Jeanne Milstein, the state’s child advocate, announced today she will retire in March from a job that cast her as a watchdog for neglected and abused children and a player in the continuing struggle over how to reform the Department of Children and Families. “This has been my life, my passion. I am so humbled […]
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Systems resist push to expand the school day and year
When it came time for Tyrone Almonte to decide where he wanted to go to high school, he had plenty of magnet schools to select from in the Hartford region. He chose Greater Hartford Academy of Math and Science — a school not only with significantly higher achievement rates than nearby schools but also one of […]