Despite budget woes, more stem cell grants coming soon

As traditional newsrooms have declined in recent years, a new kind of news-gathering organization has emerged: non-profit operations that report on the state or national levels, most of them primarily on-line. Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism examined 39 such organizations–including The Connecticut Mirror–and found they vary widely in terms of transparency and […]

Nearly 60 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents can’t or won’t name a favorite for the GOP 2012 presidential nomination when asked an open-ended question, with no candidates’ names read, a new Gallup survey says. Among those who do express a preference, Mitt Romney is the only one in double digits, with 13 percent. Michele […]

Lowell P. Weicker Jr. tartly praised one gubernatorial successor, Dannel P. Malloy, and panned another, M. Jodi Rell, on Friday as an unlikely mix of prominent names from Connecticut’s political past, present and future talked about partisanship, political courage and fiscal responsibility. Weicker called Rell a “wonderful lady” who was “more interested in polls than […]

In addition to cutting funding for more than 6,500 state jobs, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s new plan to balance the state budget also slices more than $25 million from over two dozen job training, economic development and tourism programs over this fiscal year and next. “As everyone knows, this was not the path we chose, […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled one of the largest budget-cutting plans in recent history Friday, targeting more than 3,600 Executive Branch jobs for layoffs while eliminating funding for more than 6,500 jobs in total. The governor’s plan also carves deeply into social services and health care — an area Malloy pledged to protect during last […]

Though Gov. Dannel P. Malloy kept a pledge not to reduce the $1.9 billion Education Cost Sharing program that provides school aid to towns, his budget-cutting plan slashes funding for other education programs, including the state’s technical high school system. That system would trim nearly $13 million this year — shutting  down adult education programs, eliminating more than 100 jobs, and […]

The governing boards of Connecticut’s higher education institutions–one of which doesn’t even exist yet–will face difficult choices and some severe limitations in trying to cope with nearly $59 million in cuts this year under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s new budget-balancing plan. The administration recommended 779 layoffs to offset that loss–as well as $61.8 million cut […]

While “open for business” is the message Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is sending to Connecticut companies, “closed for budgetary reasons” might be the new catch phrase to describe many state facilities. The governor’s new budget-balancing plan aims to save more than $21 milion this fiscal year by closing everything from armories, prisons and Department of […]

WASHINGTON–It’s a rare moment–maybe even exceptional–when Rep. Joe Courtney finds himself lining up behind Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a bedrock Kentucky conservative. But that’s how odd the politics are getting in Washington these days, as lawmakers grope for a way to break the gridlock over raising the nation’s debt ceiling. Courtney, a Democrat from […]

After finishing second in a three-way race for the Republican Party’s 5th District Congressional nomination last year, Justin Bernier of Plainville says he’s feeling stronger now as he competes with four rivals for the 2012 endorsement. “The donor support and the political support we had in 2010 is still there and we picked up a […]