Ten Connecticut school districts can produce two high school graduates for the price of one Hartford high school diploma, according to Department of Education data. The most recent 13 years of education, representing kindergarten through 12th grade, cost $165,275 in Hartford. With a graduation rate of 69.3 percent, the cost per diploma in Hartford is [...]
The bipartisan job-creation bill signed into law by Gov. Dannel Malloy last month includes a $10 million subsidy for new hiring over the next two years – but residents from 130 Connecticut towns need not apply. The General Assembly passed the bill almost unanimously, with one vote against in each the House and Senate. The [...]
My latest post to Health Justice CT takes on income inequality and the best way to improve health: increase prosperity. If someone offers you half of pie #1 or all of pie #2, the first thing you should ask is, “How big are the pies?” I don’t know when it started, but many Americans have [...]
“If there were, God forbid, some accident at this hotel, the Republican Party and the conservative movement in Connecticut would be decimated for decades to come,” The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol told a crowd of more than 200 at a Nov. 4 Yankee Institute luncheon. “So let’s hope everything is stable for the next hour.” [...]
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Former Deputy Warden Neal Kearney will pay his own prison costs, according to a court order, although he will continue to receive his state pension. Kearney, a 24-year Department of Correction veteran, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault in June for getting sexual favors from a male inmate. He is serving a [...]
Sen. Joe Lieberman sat down for an interview with the Heritage Foundation’s Rob Bluey after giving the annual B.C. Lee Lecture Nov. 2 on America’s interests in Asia and the Pacific. Lieberman said a failure by the Supercommittee would lead to drastic cuts in military spending. “We would have failed to uphold our constitutional responsibility [...]
Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd, agrees with public opinion when it comes to Congress: it isn’t doing its job. Courtney, a Vernon resident who has represented the eastern half of Connecticut since 2007, said he can understand why Congress has a nine percent approval rating, an all-time low. “I am with the 91 percent,” he said. [...]
