Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has promised to dedicate the 2012 legislative session to education reform, but fixing how the state finances public schools is likely to wait until 2013, the co-chairs of the task force responsible for making recommendations to Malloy said during their first meeting Thursday. “It’s not as though we have to come […]

The state’s utility regulatory agency kept an engineer on the payroll for six years with “almost no work” after a disciplinary incident that led to a brief suspension in 2003, followed by the employee’s repeated and fruitless requests for work after his reinstatement, according to documents obtained by The Mirror. A labor arbitrator concluded that […]

With the latest forecasts showing Hurricane Irene on a path toward New England, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy urged Connecticut residents to begin preparing today for high winds and torrential rains that could leave swaths of the state without power, beginning Sunday. “To put it as delicately as we can, we take this threat very very […]

Acting Transportation Commissioner James P. Redeker today gets to drop the word “acting” from his title. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy named him as his commissioner this morning, describing Redeker’s five months as interim chief as one long job interview. Malloy, who named Redeker as acting commissioner in March after the retirement of a predecessor, Jeffrey […]

Its first meeting isn’t until Monday, and its membership was not officially confirmed until Wednesday night. But already the board overseeing the state’s health insurance exchange is under fire from consumer advocates, who see it as too heavily weighted toward the insurance industry. The members of the new panel include three former insurance executives, the […]

LEBANON — After visits to Fortune 500 insurers and manufacturers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s jobs tour took him Wednesday to Prides Corner Farm, where the former urban mayor talked with 40 farmers about farming as “agri-tourism” and the value of the “grown in Connecticut” label. “Farms are more and more becoming destinations, rather than just […]

Hartford Superior Court Judge James Graham refused Wednesday night to grant a request by the Connecticut State Police Union for a temporary injunction stopping layoffs of 56 troopers, including 34 who will lose their jobs at midnight. And while a union spokesman pledged the bargaining unit would continue the legal challenge to the layoffs, Gov. […]

WASHINGTON — Two years ago, Benjamin Freund’s dairy farm was teetering on a financial precipice as plummeting milk prices and skyrocketing feed costs squeezed his 270-cow operation in East Canaan, a village in the northwest corner of Connecticut. “It forced us to go right to the end of our credit lines,” Freund recalled. “We owned […]

The activation this week of two charging stations in Connecticut underscores the limited, even haphazard infrastructure available to the early owners of electric vehicles, an evolving market whose needs the utilities are trying to anticipate. To great fanfare, a single charger opened in one of the Westport train station parking lots on Monday and another […]

With $50 million at stake, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration is devising a program to assess pre-school programs and the readiness of kindergarten students to start school, the federal government’s latest emphasis in its competitive education grant program, Race to the Top. “I think that’s important,” Malloy said of the assessments. “It will put us […]

State government will rely on income taxes more than ever to finance operations this year, but its revenue collection agency has less than 70 percent of the staff it did when the tax was enacted 20 years ago and could lose several dozen more positions this year. Kevin B. Sullivan, the commissioner of revenue services, […]

Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s first U.S. Senate hearing in Hartford dramatically tackled the multi-billion-dollar  problem of financial elder abuse, drawing audible gasps Tuesday as a 90-year-old decorated World War II veteran described being turned out of his own home by a son. “I come to you to testify as a proud survivor,” said the witness, Robert […]

STAMFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and UBS Group Americas put an end to months of rumors about the financial giant abandoning its Stamford headquarters, announcing Tuesday that it would maintain its gigantic trading floor in the city. It will receive a $20 million, 5-year forgivable loan from the state. Malloy’s announcement with the company’s […]