Sen. Beth Bye: “Those of us who have been through some of the challenges of discrimination, when you go through something this hard, you come out strong. I think it’s a critical part of who I am.”
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CT defense contractors largely spared from Pentagon cuts
Washington – Sikorsky’s plans to build new helicopters for the Air Force were kept alive as President Obama’s unveiled his new budget Tuesday. Pratt & Whitney was nicked and Electric Boat remains unscathed.
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Primary care providers accepting Medicaid doubled since 2011
Payment rates to primary care providers who see Medicaid patients rose dramatically in 2013, and so did the number of providers participating in the program.
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DSS would get more workers under Malloy plan
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s proposed budget includes 103 new staff positions for the state Department of Social Services, which has faced litigation alleging that it doesn’t have enough workers to process Medicaid applications within the required timeframe.
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Analyzing Malloy’s budget? The Mirror invites you to annotate
Are you an accountant, nonprofit, lawmaker or just an interested reader who has been dissecting Gov. Malloy’s 2014 budget since its release Thursday afternoon? If so, The Mirror invites you to join the community, dissect and annotate. This is how:
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Winners and losers in the governor’s budget
Here’s an early look at who wins and who loses under the budget proposal Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled Thursday.
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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.
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Malloy offers lean $19 billion re-election year budget
Updated at 2:02 p.m.: Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered a $19 billion budget Wednesday that — among many other proposals — would give tax breaks to middle-income households, consumers and towns while limiting spending growth to just under 3 percent.
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Malloy proposes universal preschool access
The governor is proposing that every child in Connecticut have access to preschool by 2018.
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Election-year politics, future deficit, limit CT budget options
Election-year politics. A large future deficit. A sticky constitutional cap. Budget obstacles are everywhere as legislators return Wednesday to the Capitol for the 2014 General Assembly session.
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Malloy would expand renters’ aid to 12,700 Connecticut seniors
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed expanding a renters’ rebate program to serve an additional 12,700 low-income elderly residents next fiscal year, ending a controversial freeze that originated in his administration.
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Malloy promises $155 million in tax relief
Derby – Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Thursday he would use the $506 million projected surplus to beef up the state’s fiscal reserves, pay down pension obligations and provide modest tax relief.
Malloy, a first-term Democrat facing re-election this year, chose a blue-collar, Naugatuck Valley community to announce that if legislators approve his plan, the state would be sending out checks of $55 to single filers and $110 to couples.
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Malloy hints CT could get a tax cut
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered his strongest hint yet Thursday that he might propose some tax cut in two weeks when he delivers his latest budget plan to the legislature.
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Malloy administration: CT on pace for $506M surplus this year
State finances are on pace to finish $506.1 million in the black when the fiscal year ends June 30, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration reported Tuesday afternoon.
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Will Malloy spend Connecticut’s shaky surplus on election-year tax cut?
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy finally has a chance to trumpet a large budget surplus, even though much of it stands on shaky underpinnings. And Republicans suspect the Democratic governor will use it next month to pay for an election-year tax cut — even though a larger deficit has been forecast for just a year from now.