by Zachary Janowski | Oct 4, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care
Commissioner Dan Esty, Connecticut’s chief regulator of the environment and utilities, was paid by United Illuminating in 2009, the smaller of the state’s two electric utilities, according to a disclosure by his wife, former state Rep. Elizabeth Esty. In 2009, before...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 30, 2011 | Features, General, State Budget
Connecticut owes its employees billions of dollars in future pension benefits, a fact that is currently hidden in the footnotes of its financial reports, but a few changes on the way will make these debts more transparent. In addition to the money invested in the...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 28, 2011 | Features, General
Rep. Chris Murphy told the New England Council in Boston Wednesday that voters are frustrated with Washington – and he is, too. “I can’t live with government on the back of a napkin,” said Murphy, D-5th and a candidate for U.S. Senate, explaining his vote against the...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 22, 2011 | Features, General, State Budget
Connecticut’s planning and budget agency, the Office of Policy and Management, is breaking the law – according to auditors – because the agency’s leaders don’t even know how many reports they are required to write. The General Assembly requires at least 100 OPM...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 21, 2011 | Features, General
Gov. Dannel Malloy took steps today toward forcibly unionizing daycare providers and home health care workers in Connecticut. Malloy used two executive orders, his ninth and tenth, to make the first steps toward forcing these workers to pay union dues like most state...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 20, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Neal Kearney, a former deputy warden with the Connecticut Department of Correction, is getting a different perspective on his old job – this time from behind bars. Kearney pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault in June for getting sexual favors...
