In the crowded contest to represent Connecticut’s 5th congressional district, Elizabeth Esty got a little boost today that could help fuel her fundraising efforts. EMILY’s List, the fundraising group that recruits and supports Democratic pro-choice female candidates, put Esty “On the List,” a tally of promising candidates for the 2012 cycle. It’s short of an […]

From the unprecedented and deadly tornadoes that devastated the Southeast and Heartland, to the flooding of the Mississippi River, these horrible events should serve as reminders that no place is safe from major disaster-including Connecticut. Indeed, we know from the tornado that landed in Massachusetts just last week and last winter’s storm damage to daycare […]

Nonpartisan legislative analysts say they can vouch for less than 40 percent of the $1.6 billion in labor savings figured into the next biennial budget, and are unable to assess the rest–more than $1 billion–because of unanswered questions or insufficient data, according to a memo submitted late Monday to the General Assembly. The Office of […]

The Senate today unanimously passed and sent to the House a complex, bipartisan energy bill that creates a new energy department and changes how the state regulates and procures electricity in the hopes of lowering the highest electric rates in the continental United States. An initiative of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, the new Department of […]

State legislators were expected to vote today on a bill that would cancel a controversial surcharge on residential and business utility bills without returning about $40 million already collected from Connecticut Light & Power Co. customers since January. The provision in an omnibus policy bill designed to help implement the $40.11 billion biennial budget adopted […]

The Senate plans today to begin the last three days of the 2011 session by passing a massive energy bill, while the House is expected to give final legislative approval to an $864 million plan to revamp the UConn Health Center. Both bills are priorities of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, and both have drawn some […]

With the announcement of a new pot of federal Race to the Top education grants, state legislators are hoping a series of initiatives including tracking student outcomes, consolidating early education programs and providing funding for teachers to earn degrees will bring success after two failures. The state Senate passed the bills last week; the House […]

Scientists are beginning to believe that earlier projections of the effect of global warming on the world’s food supply have understated the impact of climate change on agriculture, Justin Gillis reports in The New York Times. For many years, scientists predicted that the effects of climate change on agriculture would be manageable–perhaps even beneficial, as […]

Top executives from Pratt & Whitney made the trek from Hartford to Washington on Monday, in part to brief defense reporters on the status of the company’s Joint Strike Fighter engine-the F135. During the 2-hour session at a swanky Washington club, Bennett Croswell, president of Pratt’s military engines division, downplayed the effort by Pratt’s rival, […]