Gov. Dannel P. Malloy surfaced in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the latest stop on a Department of Defense trip that secretly took him to Kuwait on Monday night to visit U.S. troops. He is expected to return to Connecticut on Friday. The governor conducted a telephone interview with a pool of Connecticut reporters from the Associated […]

In the wake of the child molestation scandal at Penn State, some Connecticut legislators are taking a hard look at who’s required to report sex abuse in the state — and who isn’t. Speaking at a forum on children and the 2012 legislative session Tuesday morning, state Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, announced a plan […]

It’s a troubling statistic: almost forty percent of child fatalities in the state are preventable. Those were the results the State’s Child Advocate Jeanne Milstein shared with top state officials Tuesday of a study of the 1,536 child deaths in the last decade. “We can do so much more to prevent these tragedies,” said Milstein, […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy surfaced in Afghanistan today, the latest stop on a Department of Defense trip that secretly took him to Kuwait on Monday night to visit U.S. troops. He is expected to return to Connecticut on Friday. The governor conducted a telephone interview with a pool of Connecticut reporters from the Associated Press, […]

Until recently, you could find Stephen Barraco’s Smile Bright teeth whitening products in hair and nail salons, selling for a fraction of what you might pay in a dentist’s office. But now, Barraco’s Branford-based business is limited to the Internet, and he’s laid off his five employees –the result, he says, of a declaratory ruling […]

Surprise, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is in Kuwait. With no public announcement, Malloy flew Monday to Washington at the invitation of Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, then left that evening for the Persian Gulf state to visit U.S. troops with Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, a fellow Democrat. Asked about the governor’s whereabouts on Monday, his […]

While Connecticut’s municipal leaders blasted the state’s largest electric utility Tuesday for responding sluggishly to record-setting power outages after the Oct. 29 nor’easter, Connecticut Light & Power Co. officials outlined several options to a state study panel to better safeguard the electric infrastructure. “Where were these people?” Roxbury First Selectwoman Barbara Henry told Gov. Dannel […]

The sessions are private, not listed on any public schedule. But the eight legislators responsible for drawing new congressional and state legislative district maps are meeting nearly daily, racing to meet a Nov. 30 deadline. “If we don’t, it’s not for lack of trying, I’ll tell you that,” said House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero […]

According to the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters, the state’s legislators are slipping as environmental watchdogs. But curiously absent among the 12 votes the CTLCV used to make that assessment is the huge energy bill that created the new Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and set in motion dozens of programs designed to revamp […]

No one can evaluate a teacher’s performance in the classroom quite like another teacher, educators, union members and administrators testified at a public hearing Monday night. The Connecticut Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, wants state legislators to remove the State Department of Education’s (SDE) authority to set professional standards for teachers. Rather, CEA […]

Researchers at the University of Connecticut have recently learned how to create grass that is immune from many weather conditions. UConn scientists are also determined to show that feeding chickens cinnamon and oregano helps curb the persistence of salmonella. What they haven’t found is an increase in research dollars, as funding for research is on the decline […]