A growing list of long-desired projects deemed unaffordable by transportation officials isn’t the only challenge awaiting the next governor. Critics say a decade’s worth of poor budgetary decisions has left billions of dollars’ worth transportation financing approved in name only – and not converted into actual dollars spent on highways, bridges and railroads. The second of three in a series.
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Legislature adopts financing for education, job initiatives
The Legislature approved a major financing bill late Tuesday that dramatically expands pre-school programs in public schools, and tackles overdue repairs and renovations at the state universities and community colleges.
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State data center headed to southeastern CT
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration is finalizing plans to move state government’s data processing center to southeastern Connecticut early next year.
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Malloy decries budget gimmicks — but uses a few
Despite decrying the budget gimmicks of his Republican predecessors, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is employing some fiscal tricks himself, using $70 million in borrowing and other gimmicks to balance his latest spending plan.