by Jordan Otero | Nov 20, 2013 | Features, General, Legal/Courts
Child advocacy in Connecticut family court could prove to be a valuable business, with attorneys billing more than $10,000 on some cases and a small circle of them managing dozens of appointments at a time. Looking at bills from five unrelated cases involving...
by Jordan Otero | Nov 19, 2013 | Features, General, Legal/Courts
Approximately 90 percent of trained family court child advocates in Connecticut are not regularly assigned to cases. Nearly 1,000 people have taken the state-mandated training course to become a guardian ad litem. Around 10 percent of that number have regular...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 15, 2013 | Economy, Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
A Stamford real estate developer must spend at least $9.7 million to receive a $25 million taxpayer contribution toward a waterfront remediation project according to documents obtained from the Department of Economic and Community Development. DECD provided two...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 13, 2013 | Economy, Features, General, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Democratic state Rep. Bruce “Zeke” Zalaski of Southington didn’t run for re-election last year after a decade in the legislature, but he didn’t retire from public service either. In January, Gov. Dannel Malloy appointed Zalaski to the...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 12, 2013 | Features, General, Municipal, Taxes & Spending, Unions
A review of 173 cities across the country shows where five of Connecticut’s largest cities stand according to one measure of pension cost. New Haven ranks 27th and spent 10.2 percent of revenue annually on pensions, according to a study by the Center for Retirement...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 7, 2013 | Energy, Features, General
A conservation group is suing the state to force it to throw out a settlement between state officials and a wind-power company that clear-cut 2.5 acres of state forest. The Berkshire-Litchfield Environmental Council is suing the Department of Energy and Environmental...