The drive by state employee union leaders to win ratification of a tentative concessions agreement ended the week with a flurry of votes in favor of the deal by major clerical, higher-education and health-care bargaining units. By Friday night, three of the 15 unions in the State Employees Bargain Agent Coalition had ratified the deal […]

Jeannette DeJesús, now special advisor to Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on healthcare reform, was a founding member of the Board of Directors of The Connecticut News Project, publisher of The Connecticut Mirror. DeJesús, who has a degree in social work from New York University and a degree in public administration from Harvard, previously worked as […]

Robert Hohler, executive director of the Melville Charitable Trust and a founding member of the Board of The Connecticut News Project, publisher of The Mirror, died on June 2, 2011 while hiking with his family in England. He was a civil rights activist who marched on Selma, Ala., with Martin Luther King, then helped produce […]

ENFIELD–On a day when new data showed the state’s monthly unemployment rate unchanged at 9.1 percent, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy dropped by a Comcast call center that is adding 100 customer service jobs, bringing its state workforce to 1,600. Malloy applauded the cable-television company’s investment in a state-of-the-art call center in Enfield, saying he hoped […]

Connecticut’s cities and towns were spared major funding cuts in this year’s state budget–as long as state employees accept a concession deal–but they face the potential of a more fundamental upheaval: an overall assessment of how nearly $2.9 billion in aid is distributed among the 169 municipalities. Legislators and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy agreed just […]

The state Department of Social Services is revising and shortening the notices sent to families of infants in an effort to keep thousands of children from mistakenly losing Medicaid coverage after their first birthday. The department is also trying to ensure that workers are alerted when babies are at risk of losing coverage, DSS officials […]

NEW BRITAIN–Cathy Malloy, Connecticut’s new first lady, spent more than a decade running a rape crisis center, but often, acquaintances get the details wrong. “People introduce me all the time: ‘Here’s Cathy Malloy, the executive director of a domestic violence crisis center,’” she said. “You feel very odd having to say, ‘No, no, it’s sexual […]

With seven GOP presidential candidates on stage for the debate in New Hampshire this week and more high-profile potential entrants in the wings, you may be having trouble keeping track. But what about the other 60 or so Republicans who have officially joined the race? As of mid-week, 156 people had filed paperwork with the […]

The campaign to win ratification of $1.6 billion in concessions and labor savings suffered its first setback Thursday with votes by two AFSCME locals to reject the tentative deal reached a month ago by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and a coalition of state employee unions. AFSCME Local 749, representing about 1600 non-professional Judicial Department employees […]

CROMWELL–After being praised Thursday for expanding municipal aid in the new state budget, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned local officials that he might take some of that back should labor unions reject a tentative concession package. Addressing the annual meeting of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, the governor told more than 100 mayors, first selectmen […]

WASHINGTON–When the House Appropriations Committee approved its spending bill for agriculture programs two weeks ago, the measure included a small provision sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro to increase funding for a popular food-assistance program. But DeLauro’s amendment was quietly removed by House Republicans just before the full House began debating the agriculture bill this week. […]

On the heels of a major consolidation, Connecticut’s probate court system will end a year in the black for the first time in six fiscal years later this month, reducing its reliance on the General Fund and returning more than $5 million to the state’s coffers. The turnaround is well-timed as the new state biennial […]

More than half the adult users of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter are older than 35, up from a third just two years ago, according to a new report by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. The survey of 2,255 adults over 18 also found that use of social […]