It’s good by some measures.

The fiscal note on the jobs bill is out, and there is a bit of a surprise. What had been touted as a $516 million package is weighing in at $701 million in bonding, in the opinion of the non-partisan Office of Fiscal Analysis. The debt service would cost $1.1 billion over 20 years. A […]

There actually is bill language, a fiscal note and a bill analysis available on the $291 million Jackson Laboratory project. It’s all available here. The $516 milliion jobs bill is online, but not the fiscal note or analysis.

The after-tax incomes of the wealthiest 1 percent of American households grew by 275 percent between 1979 and 2007, according to a new report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. For the rest of the nation’s top earners–the 81st through 99th percentiles–inflation-adjusted incomes rode by 65 percent in the same period. The bottom 20 percent […]

Kay Bergin was born one year after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. She was just two years old when Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party first proposed the Equal Rights Amendment to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex. At the time of her death last […]

WATERFORD–Parents, school officials and teacher unions had one message for the panel responsible for resolving the highly-criticized formula used for financing schools across the state: Increase funding. “I’m sure you’ve heard what I’m going to say from a lot of people. [State funding] is not hitting anywhere near an actual reflection of what the actual […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Tuesday evening that he and legislative leaders had reached bipartisan agreement on new job growth legislation expected to win approval in special session on Wednesday. “I believe we have white smoke,” Malloy said in a brief statement with Capitol reporters following his second closed-door negotiating session of the day with […]

STAMFORD–NBC and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy pulled back the curtain today on details of a long-rumored deal to bring NBC Sports from Rockefeller Center to a sprawling, 32-acre campus where Clairol once produced and distributed hair products. Months after giving $25 million to ESPN, the Malloy Administration has promised  $20 million to rival NBC, the […]

Though the potential for dramatic job growth in cutting-edge bioscience is supposedly the chief selling point for the proposed Jackson Laboratory research center, it’s the finances behind the deal–and two very different ways of presenting them–that is controlling much of the Capitol debate. For nearly a month, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration has been touting […]

A group that promotes energy efficiency has rated Connecticut No. 8 in its annual assessment of states’ progress toward adopting and implementing various energy-efficiency policies and programs. The non-profit American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy cited, among other things, the energy efficiency programs run by state utilities in its ranking. The state was ranked No. […]

Despite daunting odds, seven organizations have applied this year for state approval to open new charter schools, including four that were turned down last year. Only two new charter schools have opened in the state in the last six years, although 20 applications were filed. The state didn’t accept applications at all in 2006 and […]

Family homelessness, income disparity and the number of households burdened by housing costs increased in the last year as Connecticut remains one of the most expensive states in which to own or rent a home, according to a report issued by the Partnership for Strong Communities Monday. The partnership used data compiled by a number […]

There’s an arms race going on, Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Monday, and we’re losing. “We’re in an arms race with pathogens that are evolving faster than we are developing drugs to treat them,” the Connecticut Democrat said during a press conference at Hartford Hospital. Sharon Ladin, Jamel Sawyer, Dr. Juan Salazar, Dr. Michael Lindberg, Blumenthal […]