Republican legislators grilled Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s staff and a top executive from Jackson Laboratory on Thursday, pressing for assurances that a planned $1.1 billion genetics research center will create the 7,400 jobs administration officials are anticipating. Republicans, who control a minority of seats in the House and Senate, specifically questioned growth projections tied to […]

State officials are developing plans for Medicaid recipients to be cared for in “medical homes” beginning in January, but they might want to start with a marketing campaign: In focus groups conducted on behalf of the Department of Social Services, many people said they were unfamiliar with the concept–or worse. Upon hearing the term “medical […]

Portland baker Frank Cavaliere offered the least complicated solution to date for fixing Connecticut’s economy during Wednesday’s state legislative forum. “If you really want to help–stop helping,” Cavaliere said. “Every time you pass a piece of legislation, you cost us money.” The 58-year-old small business owner, who was the lead speaker at a two-hour forum […]

Two major state agencies–including the governor’s budget office–shuffled millions of dollars into projects that wouldn’t begin for another 6 to 18 months to avoid having to return the money to the state’s coffers, according to recent audits covering parts of former Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s administration. The Department of Transportation released half of its $2.8 […]

Eight days after the movement started in Bushnell Park, Occupy Hartford awoke on a damp Thursday morning in a patch of land at Broad Street and Farmington Avenue, their small campground apparently tolerated by police as they continue to protest wealth disparity in the United States. On Wednesday, Hartford police issued a statement saying city […]

He doesn’t text and rarely emails, so LinkedIn probably is out of the question. But with his frequent travels, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy knows how to network. Malloy was one of several governors-elect in Washington last December when he arranged a meeting with Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services. He pitched Sebelius […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy heard plenty of strategies he has already implemented or endorsed as he met Monday morning with governors and other officials from northeastern states at an economic forum. But amid other states’ stories of increased business loans, expanded roles for colleges and universities and new financial incentives for high-technology firms came another […]

Child welfare worker Elisangela Silva had grown used to the reaction she received from showing up at strangers’ doors unannounced to inform them the state is investigating whether they are abusing or neglecting a child. It typically was adversarial. “Slammed doors, flaring arms in the air, yelling at me,” the seven-year veteran social worker in […]

NEW BRITAIN–The patient said she was committed to getting treatment for her hepatitis C, but she’d been missing appointments and doses of medication. Amanda Swan, the nurse practitioner caring for her at Community Health Center, Inc., sat in a conference room, preparing to get guidance on the case from 2,100 miles away. “I’m really looking […]

While Barack Obama’s bleak poll numbers generally are attributed in large part to the economy, relatively few Americans think a Republican president would have done a better job, according to a new Washington Post-Bloomberg poll. Twenty-three percent say the economy would be better if the GOP held the White House, 25 percent say it would […]