Malloy selects Erika Tindill to head Pardons and Paroles

Erika M. Tindill, a former prosecutor, legal aid lawyer and the current executive director of the Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence, was named today as Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s choice to chair the Board of Pardons and Paroles. Tindill, 41, was a state prosecutor in Florida specializing in domestic violence cases before coming to Connecticut […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has stood for more than 10 hours in 10 communities on 10 different nights, giving Connecticut an unprecedented opportunity to vent about his plan to raise taxes and cut services. Malloy began another round of town-hall meetings Monday in Greenwich, still game for all manner of complaint, comment and, occasionally, compliment. […]

WASHINGTON–Connecticut’s public campaign financing program will be on trial–indirectly, anyway–before the U.S. Supreme Court today, when the justices will hear oral arguments in an Arizona case to determine whether supplemental grants, triggered by an opponent’s spending are constitutional. Such payments were doled out to both Democrat Dannel Malloy and Republican Michael C. Fedele during Connecticut’s […]

It’s not just Gov. Dannel P. Malloy describing his budget as an exercise in “shared sacrifice.” In New York, those are the same words Gov. Andrew Cuomo is using to characterize his budget, but New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is saying that a budget deal reached Sunday may make Cuomo look good politically, but it […]

Tests on rainwater in Connecticut have not replicated the elevated radiation levels detected last week in Massachusetts, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said today. “There have been a number of reports in the news about low levels of radiation found elsewhere in the country as a result of Japan’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami and its effect […]

As Connecticut considers establishing its first earned income tax credit for low-income working families, other states are going in the opposite direction, cutting or eliminating existing credits to help balance their budgets, Pamela M. Prah reports at Stateline.org. Currently, 23 states and the District of Columbia offer earned income tax credits based on a percentage […]

A bill to allow cities and towns to cut school budgets when enrollment declines–opposed by educators but backed by municipal leaders and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy–won key approval from the legislature’s Education Committee Friday. Local governments are currently barred by state law from cutting the amount they spend on education, even in towns where enrollment […]

Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Hospital of St. Raphael announced plans Friday to explore a merger that would produce one hospital with two campuses in New Haven. The news came just three days after St. Mary’s Hospital disclosed plans to form a joint venture making the Waterbury hospital part of a small national chain. Experts […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday he has begun work on an “ugly” alternative budget in case talks with state employees do no not yield significant savings in the next month. “I am preparing recommendations with respect to what that would look like,” Malloy said. “I hope we don’t have to go there. It would […]

Hundreds of students, parents and school choice advocates journeyed to the state Capitol this week to back a proposal that would boost support of magnet, charter and other school alternatives, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s budget director says the administration doesn’t support the plan. The plan, referred to as “money follows the child,” would shift […]

NEWINGTON–Gina Corraccio set up her laptop on Frank Silva’s kitchen table and began quizzing her patient. What had he cooked in the past week? Was he having trouble with routine activities, like making the bed? And why had he been gaining weight? Ever since Silva got out of the hospital in January, part of Corraccio’s […]