by Zachary Janowski | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog, General, Health Care
The health insurance plan selected by Connecticut’s Affordable Care Act insurance exchange as its “benchmark” is no longer affordable to the extent it is no longer even for sale, first reported by Trudy Lieberman writing for the Columbia Journalism...
by Zack Albert | Mar 27, 2013 | Blog, Economy, Politics, Taxes & Spending
Although it has been exactly a week since a staffer filled President Obama’s limousine with the wrong type of fuel, thereby rendering it useless after being flown all the way to Israel, the story presents such a hilariously applicable metaphor that I would be remiss...
by Katherine Concepcion | Mar 26, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care
The Department of Public Health’s vaccine inventory is “grossly inaccurate,” according to a recent audit. DPH did not record vaccine supplies, prompting the Auditors of Public Accounts to request a report. Subsequent review of the DPH submission found failure to...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 25, 2013 | Features, General, Municipal, Politics
State contractors and the people who work for them can make donations to Connecticut’s government and quasi-public agencies, but they can’t talk about them. In 2006, the Citizen’s Ethics Advisory Board held that lobbyists, state contractors and businesses regulated by...
by Suzanne Bates | Mar 22, 2013 | Economy, Features, General, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Residents gathered at the statehouse on Friday to ask lawmakers to stop thinking about them as revenue sources and to instead think about how the state’s laws are affecting their daily lives. Connecticut College student Michael Coscarelli said he was at the Capitol on...
by Zack Albert | Mar 20, 2013 | Blog, Economy, Health Care, Politics
A recent report by the Connecticut Institute for the 21st Century articulated what should be a well-known fact for fiscally aware citizens: the government does not always act efficiently. In fact, the report provides a glaring example of the inefficiencies inherent in...