by Zachary Janowski | Jan 25, 2012 | Features, General, Municipal
East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr., who has been in the center of the news after the arrest of four East Haven police officers by federal investigators and ensuing inflammatory comments, is appealing a decision by the State Employee Retirement Commission to end his...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 20, 2012 | Education, Features, General, State Budget
The University of Connecticut Foundation will pay about $4,500 to send Gov. Dannel Malloy to the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, while the state owes the foundation $18 million in matching grants. Since 2007, the state has pledged to match...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 16, 2012 | Energy, Features, General
Connecticut’s Attorney General and utility regulators paid lawyers – who “failed in the extreme” according to one federal judge – almost $4.6 million to challenge payments to three New York energy companies. The state began the appeal process last year despite the...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 6, 2012 | Features, General, Health Care
As part of the unionization process Gov. Dannel Malloy began last year with two executive orders, state officials are preparing to release the personal information of several thousand people who work for Connecticut’s elderly and disabled. In September, Executive...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 5, 2012 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The board of directors for Connecticut’s government-run venture capital fund unanimously approved a $291 million deal Thursday with Jackson Laboratory, a Maine nonprofit, to subsidize its development of a facility on the campus of the UConn Health Center. The General...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 8, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care
Without fanfare or announcement, Gov. Dannel Malloy has named the members of two working groups that will guide the unionization of home daycare providers and personal care attendants over the next year. The two working groups will meet Friday morning. The Personal...
