After three years, Dorothy Lewis has come to think of the Wethersfield Health Care Center as home. Now, she testified Thursday, she fears losing that home and the workers she considers family as the nursing home’s owners try to shut it down. “I’m standing up to show you I’ve been restored to complete normal health,” […]

With 28,000 mortgages in foreclosure, state officials are stepping up efforts to help struggling homeowners by sponsoring an all-day event in Hartford next week where borrowers can meet one-on-one with lenders and counselors. “We encourage any Connecticut homeowner that’s having trouble paying their mortgage to come to the event,” Banking Commissioner Howard F. Pitkin said […]

Consultants gave University of Connecticut officials the results of their $4 million study of the school’s operations Thursday: a plan to improve UConn’s finances through a combination of personnel reductions, spending efficiencies and revenue increases. The final report by McKinsey & Company projects annual savings and revenue increases totaling $7.6 to $12.8 in the current […]

It’s a dilemma Corey Schmitt has seen dozens of students face during the three years he’s worked at the University of Connecticut’s financial aid office: either go to school full-time and take out thousands of dollars in loans, or attend part-time and work to pay some of the expenses on the way. “Students don’t want […]

We didn’t used to get weather updates from the governor. “The weather forecast is calling for winds of 15-30 miles per hour with locally higher gusts,” Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said in an emailed statement Thursday. “Normally, these types of winds would not be of concern, but with the condition of trees following the October […]

When the power went out at her home in Cromwell, Nanfi Lubogo used her cell phone to access the town’s website to find information on shelters. There wasn’t any. She tried calling 2-1-1, the state’s infoline, but couldn’t get through and after 20 minutes, with her phone’s battery waning, she gave up. Many Connecticut families […]

A smiling Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered the simplest analysis Wednesday of the previous night’s Democratic wins in municipal elections: “If you want to look at trends, the Democrats had a pretty good night.” By capturing Republican-held mayoral offices in Waterbury, Milford, Manchester and Middletown, Democrats now control municipal governments in 14 of the state’s […]

Majority Democrats in the state legislature called Wednesday for Connecticut Light & Power Co. to credit customers as much as $50 to help compensate for the more than 830,000 outages residences and businesses served by the utility suffered during and after the Oct. 29 nor’easter snow storm. And Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams […]

Despite recent budget increases, Connecticut Light and Power Co. spent less on tree-trimming–after adjustments for inflation–and cleared fewer miles of wires last year than it did a decade ago, according to testimony state utility regulators submitted Wednesday to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s panel studying responses to major storms. Also, state regulators noted while they measure […]

The operator of a Wethersfield nursing home is seeking state approval to close the 210-bed facility, one of the town’s largest employers and home to close to 180 residents. In its request to close Wethersfield Health Care Center, HealthBridge Management cited several factors including having too few residents to maintain operations, annual financial losses, Medicaid […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy made the rounds Tuesday night, basking in a string of victories by Democrats he had backed with fundraising and other help in mayoral races in Waterbury, New Britain and Middletown. Neil O’Leary unseated Michael Jarjura in Waterbury, while Dan Drew beat two-term Mayor Sebastian Giuliano in Middletown and state Rep. Tim […]

The sweeping changes the Department of Children and Families has made in recent months are drawing the ire of the agency’s advisory panel, whose members–as parents, community providers, child lawyers and foster parents–are seeing first-hand the ramifications. “You need to hear the crap that’s going on,” Janice Andersen, the deputy director of a Bridgeport-based group […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy bristled today at the suggestion he was too slow to activate the National Guard to cope with last week’s freak snowstorm, saying that hundreds of guard personnel were alerted before the storm hit. “Can we stop about the National Guard?” Malloy told reporters. “I think you are missing the point. The […]

The Oct. 29 snowstorm and its aftermath will do more damage to Connecticut’s economy than any short-term boost it offered to tree-trimmers, restaurants, and merchants selling chainsaws and batteries. But several Connecticut economists also said that while the burdens this storm has placed on the economy could reach into the tens of millions of dollars, […]

With a major snowstorm in the forecast, Todd Rose’s home health care agency set its emergency plan in motion, making a prioritized list of patients to visit in case resources became limited. But two days after the snow hit, with power outages across the state and long lines outside the few gas stations in the […]