by Katherine Concepcion | Jan 31, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The Department of Public Health paid one employee for 28 hours of work in a single day, according to auditors. DPH made the payment for a combination of on-call hours and regular working hours. “We were told that employees are paid for on-call duty even when they are...
by Suzanne Bates | Jan 26, 2013 | Economy, Education, Features, General, Health Care
This week two more examples surfaced of how men are falling behind women, lending credence to the national narrative that men – particularly young men – are struggling to keep up. More young men than young women in Connecticut drop out of high school, and the state’s...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 25, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Taxpayers owe a growing debt to state employees for their unused paid time off, recently totaling more than $700 million or $11,500 per employee. In other words, if every state employee retired today, taxpayers would owe them more than $700 million for their unused...
by Zack Albert | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog, Economy, Municipal, Taxes & Spending
While the weather may have been rather pleasant on January 8th, the new Connecticut legislative session opened that day with a rather ominous fiscal cloud overhead. According to the Office of Fiscal Analysis, the expected revenue for the year has once again been...
by Suzanne Bates | Jan 18, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care
The state is moving closer to the creation of a database that will track the intimate details of our medical choices – linking our social security numbers, dates of birth and other demographic information to the health care we receive. While the regulations for this...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 17, 2013 | Features, General, Municipal, Politics
New Haven City Clerk Ron Smith was not drafted by the New York Knicks, and he never played for the team, contrary to his official biography on the city’s website. Smith said he didn’t know how the error entered his biography. “Somebody made a big blunder,” he said....