by Zachary Janowski | Oct 29, 2012 | Features, Municipal, Taxes & Spending
With Hurricane Sandy threatening, it would pay for local officials to look back on the freak snowstorm that struck one year ago. The early snow stuck to leaves hesitant to fall bringing down many, many trees. The disruption in electricity to thousands of residents for...
by Zack Albert | Oct 25, 2012 | Blog, Economy
While the government likes to point to their official unemployment rate as evidence for economic recovery, many argue that this rate, called U3, does not capture a full picture of the economy. Veronique de Rugy and Jason Fichtner of the Mercatus Center say that,...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 24, 2012 | Blog, Politics, State Budget
Connecticut is looking for a new victim advocate and state officials are willing to pay the right candidate as much as $30,000 more than the person he replaces. The current victim advocate, Michelle Cruz, lost favor with Gov. Dannel Malloy’s administration by...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 23, 2012 | Features, State Budget
State officials charged with caring for children in need regularly travel out of state to visit children placed outside of Connecticut due to special circumstances. The out-of-state trips, many lasting overnight with a return flight the next day, are mandated once...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 19, 2012 | Politics, Taxes & Spending
Next time unions and their allies complain about money in politics, remind them unions invented political action committees. History professor Maury Klein writes for Bloomberg: The first organization to call itself a political action committee was formed in July 1943...
