Republicans got another lesson in how Democrats have consolidated power Friday as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy secured $20 million in financing for a competitive municipal grant program without disclosing how he intends to divvy up the funds. There was no legal requirement for Malloy to first disclose his intentions to the State Bond Commission, but […]

With almost half the schools in Connecticut failing to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was quick to say the state would be seeking a waiver from the federal law’s requirements under a process announced today by President Obama. “I anticipate that we would be looking at a waiver,” […]

Enrollment is down this fall at the state’s community colleges following 13 years of steady growth, and school officials say a lack of money to provide all the course offerings students want and need is likely contributing to the decline. “When resources dwindle, so does the ability of the community colleges to continue to grow,” […]

On a jobs tour this week to launch her U.S. Senate campaign, Linda McMahon asked a Milford manufacturer the question that is standard for Republican candidates these days: Do regulations hamper your business? “He said, ‘No, not really,’” McMahon reported. A lot of experts agree, at least when it comes to creating and sustaining jobs, […]

Of course, one must be carefully when using numbers and statistics, but the basic facts are these: Connecticut’s per capita income is about $56,000, while the per capita income in the US is about $33,000; Luxemburg’s is $38,000, Switzerland’s $37,000; Japan and Norway come in with per capita incomes of about $35,000. If Connecticut was […]

New federal data showing Connecticut’s overall income rose last year while most households earned less intensified the focus Thursday on the special legislative session on jobs just five weeks away. The estimates in the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 American Community Survey also showed that despite little change in Connecticut’s uninsured population there is a growing […]

WASHINGTON–The congressional firefight over a stop-gap funding bill for fiscal year 2012 has immediate implications for Connecticut’s ability to respond to Tropical Storm Irene. But it also puts in jeopardy a small victory that Democrats won in the debt-ceiling deal that Congress passed last month. And if that debt-deal win comes unraveled, it could have […]

An ‘unverified’ license Connecticut launched a campaign today to publicize how to obtain a driver’s license that meets the stricter verification standards of a federal “Real ID” law passed in 2005, but never implemented in face of objections from two dozen states. Beginning Oct. 3, drivers in Connecticut will have two choices when renewing their […]

Social service advocates are urging legislators to commit state money to make up for a potential shortfall in federal funding to help low-income residents to heat their homes this winter, an alternative to a plan by the Malloy administration that would leave to more than 80,000 poor households without the assistance. But Gov. Dannel P. […]

Though just a fraction of the state budget, the $80 million winter heating assistance funding shortfall might not be the last small-ticket item to toss a big wrench in Connecticut’s fiscal machine. With virtually no cushion below the constitutional spending cap, more than $830 million in savings targets that must be hit, the potential for […]

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will be in Hartford on Saturday to tour Coltsville, the industrial neighborhood that the city and congressional delegation have been trying to get designated as a national historic park. He will be joined by U.S. Rep. John Larson, D-1st District, who announced the visit today, and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Sen. […]

Last night’s execution of Troy Davis, a Georgia man convicted of murdering an off-duty police officer largely on the strength of eyewitness testimony, has renewed a national debate over the accuracy of such witnesses’ identification of suspects, Maggie Clark reports at Stateline.org. The first study questioning the reliability of eyewitness accounts was published more than […]