by Katherine Concepcion | Mar 5, 2013 | Features, General, Politics, Transportation
Thousands of residents attended a transportation committee hearing at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven on Monday, March 4, in support of bills expanding the rights of immigrants and migrant workers. Current law only allows licenses to be issued to individuals...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 4, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
A state program that pays government employees $100 annually to manage chronic diseases cost $2.1 million this year because 21,344 employees qualified for the program. That means more than 40 percent of state employees have chronic health conditions. According to the...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 4, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget
A bill pending the Connecticut General Assembly would allow a quasi-public state agency to issue bonds on behalf of out-of-state hospitals if they are owned by a Connecticut parent and located in a neighboring state. Connecticut already has the highest level of bonded...
by Zachary Janowski | Feb 26, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending, Transportation
New public transportation projects are starting to eat up more of the state’s budget, while the heavily-used Metro-North Railroad is facing cuts in state support. Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget proposes to cut Metro-North $5.5 million next year and $4.4 million the year...
by Zachary Janowski | Feb 25, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, Politics
Five Connecticut nursing homes in a heated labor dispute with striking union workers filed for bankruptcy Sunday, claiming the cost of union pensions and health benefits forced them to take this step. HealthBridge, a New Jersey company, operates a number of nursing...
by Katherine Concepcion | Feb 20, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The Department of Public Health illegally paid volunteers on a peer review committee tasked with examining applications for state stem cell funding, according to auditors. The department paid $25,863 to volunteers members of the Stem Cell Research Peer Review...