The Department of Social Services has no records related to the New Haven People’s Center, despite being the agency responsible for $300,000 in proposed funding on the State Bond Commission’s agenda last week. DSS responded to a Raising Hale request under the Freedom of Information Act by saying there are no relevant records. “I don’t [...]
Connecticut’s economic outlook is the seventh-worst in the country, according to a new report by the American Legislative Exchange Council, exactly matching the state’s ranking for past economic performance. The Nutmeg State earned its lowest ranking yet in the fifth edition of Rich States, Poor States, falling to 44 despite ranking as high as 32 [...]
The Connecticut Bond Commission delayed a vote Friday on a $300,000 grant for the New Haven People’s Center, according to the CTMirror. Raising Hale reported on the item before the commission meeting this morning. More from the Mirror: “An organization like this should never have made it onto the bond commission agenda,” Rep. Sean J. [...]
The Connecticut Bond Commission will consider a $300,000 grant Friday to the New Haven People’s Center, an organization with ties to the Communist Party. According to the commission’s agenda, the center will use the money for “exterior masonry repairs, new roofing, gutters and soffits, window replacement, heating system improvements and interior flooring improvements.” The funding [...]
Connecticut’s long-term liabilities went in the right direction for a change, according to a draft report by the state’s new healthcare actuaries, falling from about $8,700 per person to $5,800. Medical and prescription drug benefits for a 50-year-old retired state employee cost about $10,000 a year, according to the report by the Segal Company in [...]
An audit of the Commission on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired found certain interpreters overbill the agency which leads to higher costs for clients who use their services. The Auditors of Public Accounts said interpreters employed by the commission use labor grievances to protect themselves when they submit overstated claims for hours or mileage. The [...]
When average Connecticut taxpayers completed their returns for the deadline earlier this week they may have paid marginal rates higher than the state’s top tax bracket because of the way the state phases out certain deductions. Marginal taxes determine how much of the next dollar a person earns he or she will get to keep. [...]
The top ethics official in Connecticut state government got a friend transferred to her agency last year amid agency consolidation, a move she defends as “a business decision.” Carol Carson, executive director of the Office of State Ethics, said she consulted her agency’s legal division and disclosed her friendship to the chairman of the Citizen’s [...]
U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy criticized state officials Friday for not having enough projects ready for construction, a characterization the Connecticut Department of Transportation contests saying there are numerous projects underway. Murphy, a Cheshire Democrat who is running for U.S. Senate, spoke mostly about political gridlock in Washington at a breakfast sponsored by the New England [...]
After accusing the Hartford City Council of failing to fund a Republican Presidential primary, evidence is growing that the city’s registrar of voters significantly over-budgeted for the vote. Republican Registrar of Voters Salvatore Bramante began agitating against city officials with a March 1 statement accusing them of effectively cancelling the primary in Hartford. He requested [...]
