The state of Connecticut filed suit Oct. 6 to make a jailed former deputy warden pay the costs of his imprisonment, two weeks after Raising Hale reported he didn’t qualify for the state’s pension revocation statute. Neal Kearney pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault in June for getting sexual favors from a [...]

Gov. Dannel Malloy is seeking $291 million in state money to bring the Jackson Laboratory to Connecticut and reverse a recent decline in the biotech industry. Connecticut’s share of U.S. biotech jobs fell by 78 percent over the past decade, according to the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. According to the [...]

Gov. Dannel Malloy took his policy of mandatory sick leave on the road to Washington Friday and made a point to criticize conservative policies as “national imperialism.” Malloy said his mother’s job as a nurse inspired his desire to mandate paid sick leave, which passed in Connecticut this summer because of his lobbying efforts. “It [...]

Gov. Dannel Malloy will ask the legislature to approve a $291 million incentive package for nonprofit genetic research laboratory to open in Connecticut, after a similar effort to open a lab in Florida failed. The Jackson Laboratory of Bar Harbor, Maine, does genetic research and develops mice with human diseases to be used in biomedical [...]

The State Board of Labor Relations ruled four school districts can give teachers bonuses as part of a program that provides outside funding for college-level classes. The Plainville, Region 11, Windsor and Windsor Locks school districts can continue to participate in Project Opening Doors, a nonprofit that funds Advanced Placement classes in Connecticut public schools. [...]

The Office of Comptroller Kevin Lembo released details Friday on the longevity payments to state employees totaling more than $10 million. Non-union employees received about 60 percent of total longevity payments. Union employees received about 40 percent. The highest bonuses for non-union employees were more than twice as big as bonuses for union employees. James [...]

My latest post for Health Justice CT asks if health education is a missed opportunity. As I look back on health classes I took in elementary and junior high school, I wonder if they were a missed opportunity with too much sex and drugs, and not enough health. That was my experience, anyway. (I went [...]

The American Jobs Act – a $447 billion combination of tax cuts and government spending championed by President Barack Obama – will fund 3,800 teaching jobs in Connecticut at an average cost of more than $88,000. The one-time infusion of $336 million will temporarily help school districts rehire laid off teachers or avoid laying them [...]

Priscilla Dickman, 55, of Coventry, is the first and only person to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of Connecticut’s new ethics laws and she is also the rare worker convicted of committing fraud so she can go back to work. Dickman is appealing both of those distinctions, but there are other cases, too. New [...]

Commissioner Dan Esty disclosed Wednesday $1.2 million in speaking fees earned over the past five years in response to scrutiny of his wife’s financial disclosure forms. Esty, who heads the newly former Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, was a Yale professor, environmental consultant and lecture-circuit regular before taking the post. His wife, former state [...]