Democrat Dan Malloy had the biggest fundraising day in Connecticut history Tuesday as he collected $6 million in public financing for his campaign for governor. But it is Republican Tom Foley who is poised to ramp up spending with a resumption of television advertising this week, an effort to close Malloy’s double-digit lead in the […]

WASHINGTON — Republican Linda McMahon’s campaign spent nearly $2.5 million in the first 21 days of July, a daily average of $117,619. And in the weeks before gliding to a primary win on Aug. 10, McMahon pumped another $5 million of her own money into the Senate campaign. McMahon’s most recent campaign finance reports offer a […]

Connecticut stem cell researchers waited for answers and contemplated potential damage to their field Tuesday, a day after a federal court ruling that could limit funding for embryonic stem cell research. “I don’t think anybody completely understands what it’s going to mean,” said Laura Grabel, a Wesleyan University professor whose research involves embryonic stem cells. […]

Rep. Kenneth P. Green, D-Hartford, filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging his two-vote, recount loss in the Democratic primary to Matt Ritter. Under the law, the case will go to trial within days. Hartford Superior Court Judge Susan Peck scheduled a status conference for Wednesday afternoon, with testimony to begin as early as Friday. Green alleged […]

One-fifth of the state’s nonprofits are at risk of losing their tax-exempt status this fall, courtesy of a tax law that is being enforced this year for the first time. Almost 4,000 organizations are at risk of losing their exemption if they do not respond by Oct. 15 to a law requiring them to fill […]

Connecticut’s neighboring states of New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are among 10 winners of the second round of the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top school reform competition. Connecticut failed last month to make a list of 19 finalists for the Obama administration’s $4.3 billion competition designed to improve low-performing schools. U.S. […]

After losing her teaching job in Norwich last spring, Antonia Revere worried all summer, hoping for the phone call that finally came this week. “I’m so relieved. I’m so happy,” said Revere, who was notified by the school district Monday that she has been rehired as a third grade teacher. She is one of hundreds […]

The campaigns of Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Richard Blumenthal are making overt and subtle appeals to unaffiliated women, a pool of 400,000 potential swing voters in their U.S. Senate race. As McMahon tries to become the first woman elected to the Senate from Connecticut, she has touted her background as a corporate executive in […]

When it comes to fishing, boating and other sporting activities, getting access to Long Island Sound is anything but a day at the beach. While sunbathers can flock to large state parks, those who seek less crowded spots for recreational use say a limited number of access points and restricted or expensive parking make getting […]

People with diabetes make up less than 8 percent of the population, but they represented nearly 20 percent of U.S. hospitalizations in 2008, according to a new report by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. While the bulk of hospitalizations involving diabetics occurred for other conditions, the report noted that because diabetes increases the […]

Even on a relaxed summer day, Dan Malloy is a candidate who occupies the narrow spaces between confident and cocky, energetic and edgy. It is a more than a week after he crushed Ned Lamont in the Democratic primary for governor, and Malloy is getting antsy. He is ready to go, to work. “That’s what […]

WASHINGTON — Connecticut’s congressional delegation has collectively submitted hundreds of earmark requests totaling more than $1 billion for fiscal year 2011. The spending pleas range from relatively small line items, such as $75,000 for a fatherhood initiative that Rep. Chris Murphy submitted on behalf of a Danbury community program to more eye-popping sums such as […]

Optimistic assumptions about federal aid and social service caseloads came back to haunt state officials Friday as Connecticut’s $19.01 billion budget, barely out of the gate, stumbled more than $60 million into deficit. In its first budget forecast since the fiscal year began July 1, Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s administration reported rising income and sales […]

State government’s $19.01 billion budget is $63.4 million in deficit, just seven weeks into the new fiscal year, due to a shortfall in anticipated federal funding and higher than expected demand for social services, Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s budget office reported today. But mixed amid the bad news are higher than expected income and sales […]

Nearly 25 percent of Connecticut’s Democrats and 30 percent of Republicans cast ballots in the Aug. 10 primaries, according to final statistics released this afternoon by Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz. The turnout for last week’s contests, which included a Republican primary for U.S. Senate, GOP and Democratic gubernatorial primaries, and major party races […]