by Zachary Janowski | Jan 16, 2012 | Energy, Features, General
Connecticut’s Attorney General and utility regulators paid lawyers – who “failed in the extreme” according to one federal judge – almost $4.6 million to challenge payments to three New York energy companies. The state began the appeal process last year despite the...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 13, 2012 | Features, General, State Budget
During the contentious Connecticut budget debates of 2011, a Latino advocacy commission had to award all the money in a small scholarship fund containing private donations to avoid losing it in a budget-balancing sweep of the account. Going into the budget debate,...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 6, 2012 | Features, General, Health Care
As part of the unionization process Gov. Dannel Malloy began last year with two executive orders, state officials are preparing to release the personal information of several thousand people who work for Connecticut’s elderly and disabled. In September, Executive...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 5, 2012 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The board of directors for Connecticut’s government-run venture capital fund unanimously approved a $291 million deal Thursday with Jackson Laboratory, a Maine nonprofit, to subsidize its development of a facility on the campus of the UConn Health Center. The General...