The earthquake felt across CT on Friday morning was centered in New Jersey. But Connecticut is no stranger to minor rumblings of its own.
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Panel backs new CT budget with built-in shortfalls, few details
The CT Appropriations Committee would bolster higher education and social services but ignore pension and revenue problems in its budget plan.
Posted inEconomic Development
CT gets ‘creative’ with ARPA-funded efforts to expand labor pool
CT’s CareerConneCT program targets groups with historically low participation in the labor force. So far, it’s placed 1,200 people in jobs.
Posted inMoney
Finance panel OKs bills to attack poverty, boost child care in CT
The CT legislature’s finance committee adopted measures to fight poverty and backed a 5-year $674 million capital building program for UConn.
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With tax changes off the table, CT finance panel focuses on studies
The legislature’s tax writing committee now hopes to launch analyses of existing tax breaks and options to bolster CT’s competitiveness.
Posted inPolitics
Biden and Trump win CT primaries; Many ‘uncommitted’ votes
The primaries, a gentle test for CT’s first foray into in-person early voting, saw about 18,000 votes cast ahead of Tuesday.
Posted inPolitics
Early voting in CT brought out almost 18,000 out of 1.2 million
Only 1.4% of CT’s roughly 1.2 million registered Democrats and Republicans turned out last week for the state’s first early voting period.
Posted inJustice
CT advocates criticize prison ombudsperson selection process, nominee
Hilary Carpenter listened to harsh criticism about her nomination to the CT prison oversight role and choice to not withdraw her candidacy.
Posted inPolitics
CT presidential primaries 2024: Live results
Polls close at 8 p.m. in CT, and results compiled by the Associated Press will be updated as numbers come in.
Posted inPolitics
Scanlon proposes tighter oversight of disability pensions
A recent report says many former CT employees are collecting disability payments despite working new jobs or not confirming their eligibility.
Posted inMoney
Leaders now say they can fix CT budget without adding big dollars
Budget transfers could still help CT’s core programs, but Gov. Lamont would have to bend ‘fiscal guardrails’ to make the Democrats’ plan work.
Posted inPolitics
GOP says Democratic election reforms are an April Fools’ joke
Republicans, in response to the Bridgeport absentee ballot scandal, want a mandatory prison sentence for election fraud and other reforms.
Posted inMoney
CT budget panel mulling whether to challenge Lamont’s guardrails
The Appropriations Committee will have to choose this week whether to take on Lamont or deny funding boost for higher ed and social services.
Posted inPolitics
Connecticut’s presidential primary election is this week. Here’s what to know.
CT heads to the polls on Tuesday to cast its votes in the state’s Democratic and Republican presidential primary elections.
Posted inJustice
A plan to fight wage theft is taking shape in New Haven
New Haven is considering whether to revoke food and beverage licenses from businesses that commit labor violations — like wage theft.
