by Zachary Janowski | Nov 29, 2011 | Education, Features, General
Ten Connecticut school districts can produce two high school graduates for the price of one Hartford high school diploma, according to Department of Education data. The most recent 13 years of education, representing kindergarten through 12th grade, cost $165,275 in...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 16, 2011 | General, Health Care
My latest post to Health Justice CT takes on income inequality and the best way to improve health: increase prosperity. If someone offers you half of pie #1 or all of pie #2, the first thing you should ask is, “How big are the pies?” I don’t know when it started, but...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 3, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care
The Jackson Laboratory – which will receive $291 million in state subsidies for a new building on the Farmington campus of the University of Connecticut Health Center – announced Thursday a joint venture in New York City will go forward with support from the city and...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 3, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Much of Connecticut is still in the dark, recovering from an uncharacteristically early snowstorm that knocked out power across the state. The outrage – err, outage – map still shows towns in black or deep purple, indicating more than 60 percent of Connecticut Light...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 27, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The state of Connecticut filed suit Oct. 6 to make a jailed former deputy warden pay the costs of his imprisonment, two weeks after Raising Hale reported he didn’t qualify for the state’s pension revocation statute. Neal Kearney pleaded guilty to one count of...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 20, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care, Taxes & Spending
Gov. Dannel Malloy will ask the legislature to approve a $291 million incentive package for nonprofit genetic research laboratory to open in Connecticut, after a similar effort to open a lab in Florida failed. The Jackson Laboratory of Bar Harbor, Maine, does genetic...
