The Democratic Governors Association is pressing a federal judge to essentially bless Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s role as a fundraiser for the group before he hosts a policy conference in Greenwich next month that is “a significant revenue generator for DGA.”
Fairfield County
Coverage of issues affecting residents in Connecticut’s southwestern-most county.
Posted inEducation
Teacher evaluations: Too much science, not enough art?
FAIRFIELD — As teacher Alison Taylor conducts a poetry lesson for her third-graders, veteran principal Jason Bluestein watches and listens closely, scratching notes into a spiral notebook – a process he will repeat again and again this year, more often than ever before.
Posted inMoney, Politics
CT businesses say investing in state’s future trumps tax cuts
Talk of tax cuts may once again be framing Connecticut’s gubernatorial debate, but Joe McGee of the Business Council of Fairfield County, and other business leaders, say it’s time for a wider frame with more long-range perspective.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Connecticut panel does about-face on hazard mitigation funds
Connecticut shoreline homeowners who were victims of storm Sandy and had applied for federal funding to elevate their homes or have them purchased by the government will now have a shot at getting some money.
Posted inEnergy & Environment, Money, Politics
Blumenthal, DeLauro try to stop flood insurance increases
Washington – Saying more than 18,000 Connecticut homeowners will be socked with soaring flood insurance premiums, Sen. Richard Blumenthal and Rep. Rosa DeLauro are pressing the House of Representatives to pass a bill that would stop those hikes.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
No hazard mitigation funds for Connecticut shoreline homeowners
About a half-dozen shoreline communities are angered that none of their homes damaged by Storm Sandy will receive hazard-mitigation funding for elevations or buyouts.
Posted inPolitics
Blumenthal’s Metro-North crusade: Proper (& political?)
Washington — Reports of the resignation of Metro -North President Howard Permut may indicate that Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal has drawn blood in his battle against the commuter railway.
Posted inEducation
Vallas running for office in Illinois, future as Bridgeport superintendent unclear
Paul Vallas — who was recruited by the state’s education commissioner to run Bridgeport Public Schools — is running for lieutenant governor in Illinois as the running mate with Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn.
Posted inNews
Trumka honors Olsen, recalls when a coal strike came to Greenwich
Hartford – Richard L. Trumka, once a coal miner and now the nation’s top labor leader, joined the governor Friday to promote a jobs program for veterans, but the real reason for the visit to Connecticut was to reminisce with a recently retired friend, John W. Olsen, about the Great Greenwich Coal Strike of 1989. […]
Posted inNews
Con Ed, Metro-North duck blame
Updated: 12:53 p.m. Bridgeport — The presidents of Consolidated Edison and Metro-North took turns at a congressional field hearing Monday expressing regret and dodging blame for the power outage that disrupted the nation’s busiest rail corridor for 12 days, inconveniencing more than 100,000 commuters and costing the Connecticut economy an estimated $62 million. Craig Ivey, […]
Posted inNews
Blumenthal to quiz Con Ed, MTA execs in Bridgeport about Metro-North outage
The presidents of ConEdison and the MTA are scheduled to testify in Bridgeport next Monday at a U.S. Senate field hearing about the ConEd outage that disrupted Metro-North commuter service. U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Monday he will conduct a hearing of a Senate subcommitee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and […]
Posted inMoney
Malloy suspends routine highway work to ease traffic crunch along Metro-North corridor
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy ordered the state Department of Transportation on Thursday to halt all routine road maintenance work in lower Fairfield County to ease traffic congestion. Vehicular traffic was expected to rise sharply after Wednesday’s power failure on the Metro-North rail line knocked out most service between Stamford and New York City for at least three weeks.
Posted inNews
Darien man named a White House fellow
Justin Finnegan of Darien, the co-founder of a social entrepreneurship program, was named Tuesday to the 2013-2014 class of White House Fellows, a program that offers direct experience working at the highest levels of government. His bio as provided by the White House: Justin Finnegan, Darien, CT, is Managing Director and Co-Founder of the Mountain […]
Posted inPolitics
Fairfield County lawmaker has scrape with the law
A Fairfield County lawmaker has had a little scape with the law she would have probably rather not had. The Hartford Courant has the details.
Posted inNews
Malloy gives feds Sandy plan for approval
Washington — Gov. Dannel Malloy Friday sent the Department of Housing and Urban Development a plan that could bring $72 million to the state to help it continue to recover from Hurricane Sandy. HUD had allocated $72 million in Community Development Block grants to help Connecticut rebuild after the October super storm. But before receiving […]
