With hundreds of millions of dollars worth state tax credits and exemptions on the books, a Groton lawmaker says Connecticut should disclose which specific businesses enjoy tax breaks, and how much in savings each one receives. But while Rep. Edward E. Moukawsher‘s bill recently received a public hearing, both Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration and […]

Margaret Flinter, senior vice president of the Middletown-based Community Health Center, testified in Washington today about the importance of federal funding for such local health clinics. She said a $7 million federal investment is helping her Middletown facility double its capacity, creating new health care and construction jobs in that community, not to mention increasing […]

One year after the first Race to the Top federal education grants were awarded, the dozen winners are starting to implement the programs that won them the money–and in some cases, trying to scale back on plans that may have promised too much, too soon, Michele McNeil reports at Education Week. The U.S. Department of […]

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy breezed through an in-studio appearance today on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” opening with a pleasant chat about UConn basketball before venturing out onto the harsher terrain of state finances. It can be viewed online. Malloy shrugged off a comparison to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose recent budget deal has no tax […]

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal jumped into the congressional budget battle on Tuesday, saying a spending compromise would not be possible unless House Speaker John Boehner cuts loose the “extreme right-wing” members of his House majority. Blumenthal’s comments came during a media conference call that also featured three other Senate Democrats: California’s Barbara Boxer, Maryland’s Ben […]

At National Journal, Brian McGill has put together a cool interactive look at who sits where in the West Wing of Barack Obama’s White House.

The Day, Jan. 26, 2011: The owner of Yardney Technical Products Inc. in Pawcatuck said Tuesday that the company will move its operation and its 150 employees to a new building in East Greenwich, R.I. President Yevoli said he tried to find a location in Connecticut but was unable to find one that met his […]

WASHINGTON–An obviously divided Supreme Court probed the constitutionality of Arizona’s public campaign finance system on Monday, considering a case that will have ripple effects in Connecticut and other states that have enacted similar laws. The nine justices appeared to be narrowly split over the question of whether supplemental public financing grants for participating candidates–triggered when […]

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 […]