by Zachary Janowski | Jun 24, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The Department of Correction gave inmates paid holidays until auditors questioned the practice 18 months ago. According to a June 20 report by the Auditors of Pubic Accounts, the department unit charged with employing and training inmates had a tradition of paying...
by Zachary Janowski | Jun 20, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget
A federal judge sentenced a Norwalk drug and alcohol counselor to two years in prison after he admitted to billing Medicaid for hundreds of psychotherapy sessions that never occurred. The judge also ordered Alan Emmett Bradley, 57, to pay $151,898.75 in restitution....
by Katherine Concepcion | Jun 19, 2013 | Energy, Features, General
Connecticut’s green-energy bank hopes to make environmentally-friendly energy a better investment. The Clean Energy Finance and Investment Authority presents itself as a break from traditional clean-energy funding organizations. CEFIA, a quasi-public...
by Zachary Janowski | Jun 14, 2013 | Education, Features, General, Municipal
The average cost of educating a child from kindergarten through high school graduation in Connecticut is about $165,000, up nearly 10 percent from last year. According to Department of Education data, Hartford spent the most for each student who received a high school...
by Zachary Janowski | Jun 13, 2013 | Economy, Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The largest hedge fund in the world is getting state aid amounting to what looks like $140 million to relocate from Westport to Stamford. That money has already started flowing. The State Bond Commission has allocated $16 million to Bridgewater Associates’...
by Andrew Parrish | Jun 11, 2013 | Economy, General, It Could Happen Here
Before Connecticut lawmakers could finish patting themselves on the back for a General Assembly session that left the state in a deeper fiscal crisis, worse business climate and with a downward spiraling economy, word broke that Texas Governor Rick Perry is planning a...
