Gov. Dannel P. Malloy gave a quick lesson today in how to keep a cute story about a small gaffe from turning into a problem. The story: the governor, or more accurately, his state police driver, got a $30 parking ticket Thursday in New Haven Naturally, the ticket was the second topic raised at a […]

The state’s bipartisan auditors warned this week that technical issues with state government’s core financial computer network “represent a significant problem” for the conversion to a more transparent and accountable budgeting system, but Comptroller Kevin Lembo said the issues are “fixable.” Auditors John C. Geragosian and Robert M. Ward also warned that the failure to […]

Standing outside the State Capitol Thursday, with about 50 vocational-technical school students, parents and teachers, Darlene Riquier said they can’t help but feel like their schools are being unfairly targeted for cuts. “It’s been a constant slap in the face to these kids,” said the mother of a senior at Windham Tech and president of […]

He is low in the polls, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says he definitely is running again–about 25 minutes a day, five to seven times a week. The political stuff is a decision for another day. Malloy, who turned 56 a week ago, has managed to resume an exercise routine disrupted by 24/7 campaigning last […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says the challenge of winning ratification of a new concession deal is plain to anyone with his habit of religiously reading online comments. No one, he says, seems to see the disaster just over the horizon if ratification fails. The impetus for the concessions is a short-term crisis: How to fill […]

An inquiry by the office of Attorney General George Jepsen has concluded without finding any evidence the state computer or e-mail systems were compromised by opponents of the labor concession deal. The State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition had complained that the Yankee Institute, a conservative think tank, had tried to unfairly influent state employees with […]

An estimated 158 state employees out of 3,008 that have received layoff notices to date already have been separated from their jobs, and that separation total is likely to approach 600 before unionized workers finish their second vote on concessions, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s office reported Wednesday. And while the administration continues to make plans […]

EAST HARTFORD–Gov. Dannel P. Malloy declined to say Wednesday whether he would consider layoffs only to cover the cost of raises for unionized workers who refuse a wage freeze, or to help fill other holes in the state budget. “I prefer to hope that they are all going to pass the agreement and that that’s […]

WASHINGTON-House Democrats are urging President Barack Obama to use an untested legal option  to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling if congressional Republicans don’t agree on a long-term plan to stave of U.S. default in the coming days. “We’re getting down to decision time,” Rep. John Larson, D-1st District, told reporters after a closed-door meeting with […]

On his BlackBerry, Roderick L. Bremby, the state’s new commissioner of social services, keeps photographs he took on visits to field offices to illustrate what his agency is dealing with. They show rows of file cabinets so full that papers get stored on top, files for long-term care patients that are several inches thick, and […]

Americans overwhelmingly want their legislators to reach agreement on the federal debt deadlock, even if that means a compromise they don’t like, a new survey says. Overall, 68 percent agreed with the statement that lawmakers should “be willing to compromise, even if that means they strike a deal you disagree with.” Majorities of Republicans (53 […]