This week, Gov. Dannel Malloy said he thinks developing the area surrounding Oxford Airport is a good idea. About two weeks ago, the governor vetoed a bill that would do just that. Why the sudden change of heart? That was the question many greater Waterbury residents were left asking after the governor’s 180-degree turn. The […]

The state Department of Motor Vehicles will delay planned closings of branch offices and other facilities in eight communities – and layoffs of department workers — until Aug 19 and 20 to await the results of a union concession vote that could make them unnecessary, according to a department statement released this afternoon. The announcement […]

WASHINGTON–After essentially deferring hard decisions on budget cuts, Congress went on vacation this week without resolving an impasse over reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration–a move that is costing the government millions in lost taxes, keeping thousands of workers off their jobs, and leaving a small Connecticut airport waiting for a safety upgrade and runway […]

State employees have never warmed to the idea of having to contribute a portion of their pay to help fund their retirement health care, and one of the arguments they make against it is the history of special accounts’ being used as a piggybank by legislators and governors when money is tight. But while all […]

Six years after launching what’s become the highest-profile education reform group in the state, ConnCAN’s controversial leader is moving on–and leaving Connecticut’s education system pretty much the way he found it. “We have not kept up the reforms other states are doing,” Alex Johnston said in an interview at his New Haven office. “We have […]

Americans who identify themselves as Democrats strongly support the debt-ceiling bill, which was opposed by half the Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, while Republicans overwhelmingly oppose the measure backed by most GOP Congressmen, a new Gallup poll says. The poll finds that 58 percent of Democrats approve of the measure, with 28 percent […]

A last-minute reprieve has saved fall sports for more than 1,500 students at the state’s vocational-technical high schools, Acting Education Commissioner George Coleman announced late Wednesday, but the move will require the State Department of Education to identify budget cuts elsewhere. “Gov. Malloy and the Office of Policy and Management have worked with [the SDE] to […]

Educators who cheat to improve their schools’ test scores should be subject to financial penalties, the state’s top education official said Wednesday as the state began an investigation of alleged cheating at a Waterbury school. State Education Commissioner George Coleman said he plans to propose toughening the state’s anti-cheating laws by making teachers or principals […]

Despite its reputation as an expensive place to do business, Connecticut’s state and local governments imposed the smallest tax burden last year of any state when compared with its economic output, according to a new study released by a trade group for major corporations. The survey prepared for the Council on State Taxation found that […]

WASHINGTON–It’s the hottest new club in Washington, even if the name isn’t very snazzy: the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction. That’s the 12-member congressional panel created under the debt ceiling agreement that just passed Congress, hours before a possible U.S. default. It’s already been dubbed a “super committee,” and it will wield enormous power. […]