John and Gina Gallivan went out for dinner one Friday night to celebrate the end of the work week. The newlyweds both worked as English teachers at Wethersfield High School, where Gina also coached tennis. They later came home to find an unsettling message on the answering machine. Gina had seen a doctor for mysterious bruises […]

The state Office of Health Care Access failed to collect nearly $47,000 in payments from hospitals and did not properly investigate consumer complaints about hospital billing, according to a report by state auditors released this week. In comments included in the report, the office, known as OHCA, disputed the findings related to billing complaint investigations […]

With two preliminary federal audits bringing a quietly brewing crisis to a boil at the state police crime lab, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced a crash effort Thursday to find immediate and long-term fixes for the nation’s worst backlog of forensic DNA testing. Malloy had made the backlog a campaign issue last year, and his […]

If unionized state employees reject concessions a second time, it could have repercussions beyond the deep cuts and layoffs Gov. Dannel P. Malloy ordered four weeks ago: It also could trigger a showdown between Malloy and the legislature over just how much authority the governor has to slash spending. Did lawmakers give Malloy unfettered authority […]

Connecticut’s largest cities–Hartford, New Haven and Bridgeport–have lost residents for decades, but 2010 Census data shows a slight turnaround in these urban populations and it could influence the ongoing redistricting process. Since the 2000 Census, Bridgeport grew by 3.4 percent, Hartford by 2.6 percent and New Haven by 5 percent. The state’s population overall increased […]

The Malloy Administration today moved to strike down a rumor of a side deal with the Connecticut State Police Union on the tentative concession agreement. “This is obviously not true,” said Colleen Flanagan, the communication director for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. The administration’s negotiator, Mark Ojakian, wrote to Robert Kryzys, the general counsel for the […]

In 2010 the legislature approved the Bradley Airport Development Zone within a four-town area around Bradley international airport. Thus, the enterprise zone concept as an economic development strategy anchored by an international airport is still a new, untested but potentially good idea in Connecticut. Governor Dannel P. Malloy’s veto of the regional Oxford airport enterprise […]

Retired Navy Commander Len Cooke understands why school districts across the state have a difficult time hiring math teachers. “Students hate math. Who wants to teach a student’s least favorite subject?” he said. Well, it turns out he does. Newly-minted math teacher Len Cooke (c) with other graduates of the Alternate Route to Certification program […]

At an upbeat, bipartisan bill-signing ceremony, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy delivered a lengthy defense Wednesday of the generous economic-development packages recently awarded to CIGNA, ESPN and an online ticket brokerage, TicketNetwork. Malloy said that value of the state aid was to deepen those companies’ ties to Connecticut in a volatile time, protecting thousands of existing […]

WASHINGTON–Republican Chris Shays is gearing up to run for Connecticut’s open U.S. Senate seat, a source familiar with the former congressman’s plans said Wednesday. Shays plans to make his bid official in the coming weeks, and he will make a full-fledged run regardless of whether other possible GOP contenders, including Linda McMahon, also join the […]

WASHINGTON–A Westport-based bio-medical company is immersed in an unusual lobbying campaign, trying to sell a high-tech burn remedy to counter-terrorism experts in Washington who decide what to buy for the government’s public-health-emergency stockpile. But while the product and the company, Advanced BioHealing, may be cutting edge, their Washington strategy is old-school. To press their case, […]

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