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 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...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 18, 2012 | Politics, State Budget
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is one of the country’s most fiscally successful governors: “Many states and some localities are never ever going to be able to honor obligations they made,” Daniels said. “That will never be the case in...
