Morna Murray, a social-services advocate and public-policy expert on the state and national level, was named Monday by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy as the next commissioner of the state Department of Developmental Services.
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Lembo backs Malloy’s assessment of smaller CT deficit
State Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo gave Gov. Dannel P. Malloy a big vote of fiscal confidence Monday, certifying that Connecticut’s $89.4 budget shortfall is well below the emergency level of one percent, or $174.6 million.
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A struggle for high ground on campaign reform in CT
The General Assembly’s Republican minority moved Thursday to shape the debate on Connecticut’s system of publicly financing campaigns, demanding that Democrats close loopholes undermining the state’s clean-elections law. The GOP offers itself as the savior of a system whose creation was opposed by most Republicans.
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Unlike Cuomo, Malloy got the politically perfect storm
In New York, the second-guessing of Gov. Andrew Cuomo was well under way when Gov. Dannel P. Malloy stepped to the microphones in Hartford for a final briefing Tuesday on a blizzard that could have been named Storm Goldilocks in Connecticut. Politically, it was just about right.
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CT would have trouble financing Obama’s community college plan
WASHINGTON – Gov. Dannel Malloy said he’d participate in President Obama’s plan to provide free tuition to community college students, but he’d find it tough to fund the program, given Connecticut’s tight budget and spending cap.
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Will Malloy be forced to send deficit closure plan to legislators?
If nonpartisan legislatie analysts are right – and if Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo agrees – the deficit is at least $50 million worse than Gov. Dannel P. Malloy reported last week.
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NU workers deliver no-confidence message
The blizzard played a role in a political action staged Monday at the State Capitol by unionized utility workers unhappy with staffing cutbacks at two Northeast Utilities subsidiaries, Connecticut Light & Power and Yankee Gas.
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Malloy to Connecticut: Get home, stay there
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy ordered the closure of Connecticut’s highways, canceled state-employee shifts and generally admonished anyone from trying to travel until a fierce winter storm subsides Wednesday.
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Behind The Numbers Podcast – Episode 1: The governor, the deficit and the lockbox
Mirror reporter Keith M. Phaneuf and Hartford Courant columnist Dan Haar, discuss Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s upcoming budget proposal, big deficit projections, and whether a legal “lockbox” can ensure transportation investments will actually grow. Behind The Numbers is sponsored by the Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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Malloy’s budget cuts again hit social services, universities, courts
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy unveiled more than $31.5 million in spending cuts Friday in his second round of emergency budget reductions, with social services, public colleges and universities and state court system again taking the heaviest hits. A shortfall of at least $89 million remains to be addressed.
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Malloy, GOP leader and press do photo op lunch
Answering a dare and a double dare to sit and talk about deficit projections, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and House Minority Leader Themis Klarides, each accompanied by fiscal advisers, dined in a public cafeteria Friday, surrounded by a tight circle of aides, reporters, photographers and cops.
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Budget talks at high noon — in the cafeteria
The partisan debate over Connecticut’s growing budget deficit, which featured three days’ worth of verbal jabs and taunts by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Republican legislative leaders, will close the week Friday with all parties – having lunch.
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Connecticut sees an end to chronic homelessness in 2016
Fifty-one years after Lyndon Johnson declared “unconditional war” on poverty in his first State of the Union, anti-poverty workers allowed themselves a small celebration Wednesday, cheering an assertion that Connecticut is on the verge of eliminating chronic and veterans’ homelessness.
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Malloy to order a 2nd round of emergency cuts as deficit swells
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will order his second round of emergency spending cuts in two months as the current fiscal year’s budget deficit reached a new high Tuesday, approaching $121 million.
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Can Connecticut’s campaign finance reforms be saved?
Reform it. Leave it alone. Blow it up. Prescriptions for fixing Connecticut’s system of publicly financing campaigns vary wildly. Its tight limits on contributions and spending turned porous in 2014, tarnishing what had been a shiny instrument of campaign finance reform.
