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 […]

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” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Courant and The New Britain Herald are reporting that Democrat Rick Lopes of New Britain, a long-time aide to DAS Commissioner Donald DeFronzo and a former alderman, won a three-way race tonight to succeed Tim O’Brien in the vacant 24th House District of New Britain and Newington. Lopes faced Republican Peter Steele and a […]

Just slightly overshadowed by the New Hampshire primary, there also is an election in Connecticut today. Voters in the 24th House District of New Britain and Newington will choose a successor to Tim O’Brien, who resigned his House seat after his election as mayor of New Britain. The choices are Democrat Rick Lopes, Republican Peter […]

Backers of the higher education merger promised it would save the state millions, and last week numerous highly paid top officials at the Connecticut State University and the community college systems received pink slips to ensure it would. “We’re talking about saving almost $5 million a year,” said Michael Meotti, executive vice president of the […]