SustiNet, the ambitious state plan to bring everyone with state-purchased insurance under one umbrella organization, will cost at least $62 million, according to a study funded by the state’s insurance companies. The report, completed by Hay Group of Arlington, Virginia, uses the SustiNet board’s final report to evaluate the costs of the proposed changes, including [...]
In the final round of audits for the 2008 election season, the State Elections Enforcement Commission has referred the candidate committees of Reps. Mae Flexer, D-Killingly, and Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey, D-Hartford, to its enforcement division for further review. “Anything that’s with enforcement, that’s a pending investigation,” said SEEC spokesman Nancy Nicolescu. “I wouldn’t comment [...]
A fertility clinic affiliated with the University of Connecticut Health Center mistakenly implanted one woman with another woman’s fertilized embryo in 2009, but the doctor who runs the clinic still earned more than $800,000 last year making him the fifth highest-paid state employee. Dr. John Nulsen is the medical director of the Center for Advanced [...]
Gov. Dannel Malloy will finish fiscal year 2012 with an extra $142,300 left in his office budget and return it to the state treasury – if all goes according to plan. Malloy’s budget includes $2.3 million for his office staff. He has touted the fact that he cut his staff by 15 percent. The number [...]
Connecticut lawmakers balanced the state budget last year by instituting a new tax on electric bills. Although, the new tax went into effect Jan. 1, 2011, for Connecticut Light & Power customers, it goes largely unnoticed because it replaces a fee customers paid for the past decade. At the time of passage, legislators who [...]
The U.S. Census Bureau released detailed data for Connecticut Wednesday launching the state’s redistricting process. The reapportionment committee has until Sept. 15, 2011, to get three plans – congressional, senate and house – passed by two-thirds of each house of the General Assembly. Failing that, a redistricting commission is formed. In recent years, the process [...]
A revised draft of the SustiNet bill (HB 6305) appears to exempt the government-run insurance company – or public option – created by the legislation from state insurance regulations. The draft, which is not public yet, appears to address concerns raised by Office of Policy and Management Secretary Ben Barnes in his written testimony, including [...]
Former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz was widely criticized in 2010 for her handling of vote counts in Bridgeport and now a report by state auditors suggests other management problems in her office. Auditors criticized accounting procedures which led to a $5.2 million overstatement of customer balances out of a total of $12.5 [...]
