A working group on healthcare organized by House Speaker and Congressional candidate Chris Donovan recommended Monday the state create a government-run insurance company and allow small businesses to join the state employee health plan. Donovan, D-Meriden, convened the Speaker’s Working Group on Small Business Health Care last year. He is running for Congress in the [...]
A national education think tank gave Connecticut’s science curriculum a C Tuesday in its report, “The State of Science Standards 2012.” Connecticut earned four out of seven points for “content and rigor” and 1.8 out of three for “clarity and specificity.” The Thomas B. Fordham Institute issued the report, reiterating the C grade it gave [...]
The American Legislative Exchange Council gave Connecticut’s education policy a C+ and ranked the state 39th for its ability educate low-income students. Connecticut policies showed some improvement from last year when the state received a C- from ALEC, a national organization for conservative state lawmakers. In 2010, Connecticut ranked 29th in educating low-income students. The [...]
Zachary Janowski, investigative reporter for the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, addresses the Connecticut Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society on January 18, 2012. Dr. Roger Pilon, a Cato Institute Scholar, spoke earlier in the morning about whether the individual mandate will hold up at the U.S. Supreme Court.
The agreement to save money on state employee compensation negotiated by Gov. Dannel Malloy and the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition last year will save $3.5 billion over 20 years, according to the latest actuarial valuation, less than half of the $8.3 billion estimated by the administration last year. According to documents released last year [...]
East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr., who has been in the center of the news after the arrest of four East Haven police officers by federal investigators and ensuing inflammatory comments, is appealing a decision by the State Employee Retirement Commission to end his disability pension. Maturo received a pension for $40,113 in 2009, according [...]
The University of Connecticut Foundation will pay about $4,500 to send Gov. Dannel Malloy to the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, while the state owes the foundation $18 million in matching grants. Since 2007, the state has pledged to match one quarter of all donations to the UConn Foundation endowment. This commitment [...]
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 wholesale rejection of their legal arguments by the judge and the Federal Energy [...]
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, Connecticut faced a $3.5 billion deficit – give or take. Newly-elected Gov. Dannel [...]
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 Order No. 10 started the process of unionizing personal care attendants, a broad group of independent [...]
