Former Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele did not rule out a run for U.S. Senate in 2012 or even another try for governor in 2014 in an interview that aired today on WFSB’s “Face the State.” But much of conversation focused on his relationship with former Gov. M. Jodi Rell and her chief of staff, Lisa […]

The world is a different place in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash and the Great Recession — but not for Connecticut’s new governor, who emerged this week in his budget address as a traditional tax-spend-and-borrow Democrat. Here are Governor Malloy’s proposals for fiscal year 2012 beginning in July: $1.5 billion in new permanent […]

The big number is bad enough: $1.5 billion in new taxes to balance the coming year’s budget. But when the vast majority of state residents haven’t had to deal with anything more complicated than a two-tier levy, adding five new brackets to the state income tax is adding to the public consternation. Gov. Dannel P. […]

It’s barely three months since Election Day, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy goes back on the campaign trail Monday — not to run for a second term but to sell one of the most painful budget proposals in recent state history. The governor, who begins the first of 17 Town Hall-style meetings at 7 p.m. […]

Many hospital officials are still calculating the fallout of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget, but those that have done the math say it deals them a big hit. The budget calls for taxing hospitals and cutting the funding hospitals receive for treating uninsured and underinsured patients. The Malloy administration says the potential losses will […]

Lyle Wray Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is faced with his first major transportation policy decision: After a dozen years of planning, should the state proceed with its first true rapid-transit project, a $570 million Hartford-to-New Britain busway? With a press conference today, environmentalists, regional planners, and business and labor representatives stepped up efforts to nudge […]

WASHINGTON–One of the big winners in the White House’s budget blueprint for 2012 is Electric Boat, which stands to benefit from a $4.7 billion request for the Navy’s Virginia class submarines. That funding seeks to ensure that Electric Boat can proceed with plans to increase production from one Virginia class submarine a year to two. […]

Could Connecticut’s Democratic governor and congressional delegation find some advantage in the Republican sweep that ushered in new GOP leaders across the country? They’re trying, that’s for sure. In the wake of a decision by Florida Gov. Rick Scott rejecting federal high-speed rail funds, Connecticut lawmakers have asked Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to send some […]

The Department of Children and Families issued a report Friday saying the agency “made all reasonable efforts to locate” the biological parents of Carlita White after it was discovered her birth certificate was fraudulent and a paternity test the department administered revealed the woman who raised her was not her mother. After finding no answers from […]

After a streak of 12 straight presidential election cycles in which it voted for the winner, Missouri lost its status as the nation’s bellweather state in 2008, the politics geeks at Smart Politics say. The new leader: Ohio, with 12 consecutive cycles of giving its Electoral College votes to the winner. Runner-up, and lagging far […]

Organized labor made two complaints Thursday about Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposal for a $1.5 billion tax increase: It’s not big enough, and the rich won’t pay enough of it. “It has to go much higher,” said John Olsen, the president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO. But how high? Is Olsen, a former Democratic state chairman, […]

Up against a looming court-ordered deadline to reduce the racial isolation of Hartford’s largely black and Hispanic school population, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has opted to take a less expensive–and arguably more effective–approach to integration. Since the 1996 state Supreme Court’s Sheff v. O’Neill desegregation order, the state’s emphasis has been on creation of magnet […]