Americans generally favor raising taxes on higher-income Americans and eliminating tax deductions for some corporations as ways of paying for President Barack Obama’s proposed jobs plan, a new Gallup poll says. In terms of the impact of the bill, 65 percent say they think it will help create jobs and 60 percent believe it will […]

The bacterial organism behind a newly identified tick-borne illness found halfway across the world showed up in Durland Fish’s lab in Connecticut a decade ago. At the time, it seemed like a mistake. Fish’s lab was studying Lyme disease transmission using ticks and mice, exposing ticks to mice that had been infected, and to others […]

WASHINGTON–Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has asked his top transportation advisers to look at creative financing mechanisms, including setting up a state infrastructure bank, to fund critical highway and transit projects. The move comes as Malloy and other governors brace for an anticipated drop in federal transportation dollars. It also comes as Congress gears up for […]

SOUTHINGTON — Linda McMahon kicked off her second try for U.S. Senate today at a small manufacturing company whose physical plant and young owners provided a backdrop for a campaign that is painting its candidate as a job creator, not a politician. “Ladies and gentlemen, I’m a proven job creator, and today I am a […]

As state officials prepare to expand the use of so-called “medical homes” to care for Medicaid patients, consumer advocates who have long supported the change are raising concerns about the program’s design. Medical homes are practices in which doctors and other health care providers play a more active role in monitoring patients’ health. Supporters believe […]

With the number of women running in high-profile races on the rise in recent years, a new study raises questions about whether political polls accurately state their electoral prospects, John Sides reports at FiveThirtyEight, the New York Times blog on politics and polling. After studying more than 200 gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races in over […]

Linda McMahon’s 2010 campaign for U.S. Senate relied on David Cappiello, a former state senator and congressional candidate, and Ed Patru, who came to Connecticut after stints with the communication shops of national Republican congressional committees in Washington. Cappiello was Mr. Inside, the manager. Patru was Mr. Outside, the message strategist and spokesman. In the […]

President Barack Obama today laid out a proposal to achieve $3 trillion in debt-reduction over the next decade, with a mix of tax reform, spending cuts, and entitlement program savings. The White House wants the congressional “super committee” to take up this proposals as part of its debt-reduction mandate, spelled out in this summer’s agreement […]

Aiming to provide another insurance option for state residents, the Connecticut State Medical Society and its network of physician practices have created a nonprofit organization that they hope will be able to offer health insurance to individuals and small businesses as part of federal health reform. Under the reform law, each state by 2014 will […]

Municipal officials gave Connecticut’s utility companies high marks for their communication efforts leading up to and during Tropical Storm Irene during a state legislative hearing Monday, though post-storm efforts drew mixed reviews. And while the top executives for Connecticut Light & Power Co. and United Illuminating called for lawmakers to grant them expanded authority to […]