Connecticut owes its employees billions of dollars in future pension benefits, a fact that is currently hidden in the footnotes of its financial reports, but a few changes on the way will make these debts more transparent. In addition to the money invested in the state’s pension funds, Connecticut owes employees about $25 billion in [...]
Rep. Chris Murphy told the New England Council in Boston Wednesday that voters are frustrated with Washington – and he is, too. “I can’t live with government on the back of a napkin,” said Murphy, D-5th and a candidate for U.S. Senate, explaining his vote against the last-minute debt ceiling deal. Murphy, a Cheshire resident, [...]
Connecticut’s planning and budget agency, the Office of Policy and Management, is breaking the law – according to auditors – because the agency’s leaders don’t even know how many reports they are required to write. The General Assembly requires at least 100 OPM reports by law, auditors say, although there are no clear penalties for [...]
Gov. Dannel Malloy took steps today toward forcibly unionizing daycare providers and home health care workers in Connecticut. Malloy used two executive orders, his ninth and tenth, to make the first steps toward forcing these workers to pay union dues like most state employees – a boon to the very unions Malloy frustrated with the [...]
Neal Kearney, a former deputy warden with the Connecticut Department of Correction, is getting a different perspective on his old job – this time from behind bars. Kearney pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault in June for getting sexual favors from a male inmate. He is serving a 30-month sentence in Corrigan-Radgowski [...]
State auditors first notified Southern Connecticut State University that it overpaid employees in a December 2000 audit, a problem that persists unresolved in the most recent audit, issued almost 11 years later. The Auditors of Public Accounts reviewed ten payments to employees in 1998 and 1999 for unused sick and vacation time and found none [...]
A $13 million profit from an investment in Taiwan is stranded on the island, unavailable to Connecticut’s pension funds, because the state Treasurer’s Office has failed to name an agent to handle its taxes there. The Taiwanese investment – up 16.8 percent annually, according to the Treasurer’s Office – is part of the diversification strategy [...]
Connecticut’s five Congressmen paid $1.2 million to 104 employees in the second quarter, according to the website Legistorm, including 14 who made more than $20,000. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3rd, had the most expensive staff, $267,900, while Rep. John Larson, D-1st, had the most employees who made more than $20,000 during the quarter, five, including two [...]
State auditors have uncovered evidence of timecard forgery at Southern Connecticut State University, including suspicious signatures by a supervisor who was on vacation. The Auditors of Public Accounts released Monday their report on SCSU for 2008 and 2009 which found numerous problems with university practices. The auditors said a university employee got a new job [...]
The University of Connecticut Health Center is considering an exclusive agreement with union contractors on its $864 million revitalization project known as Bioscience Connecticut, despite concerns about legal challenges and the increased costs under such agreements. “We are evaluating options and a decision has not yet been made,” said health center spokesman Chris DeFrancesco. According [...]
