by Zachary Janowski | Oct 19, 2011 | Education, Features, General
The State Board of Labor Relations ruled four school districts can give teachers bonuses as part of a program that provides outside funding for college-level classes. The Plainville, Region 11, Windsor and Windsor Locks school districts can continue to participate in...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 14, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The Office of Comptroller Kevin Lembo released details Friday on the longevity payments to state employees totaling more than $10 million. Non-union employees received about 60 percent of total longevity payments. Union employees received about 40 percent. The highest...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 13, 2011 | General, Health Care
My latest post for Health Justice CT asks if health education is a missed opportunity. As I look back on health classes I took in elementary and junior high school, I wonder if they were a missed opportunity with too much sex and drugs, and not enough health. That was...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 13, 2011 | Education, Features, General
The American Jobs Act – a $447 billion combination of tax cuts and government spending championed by President Barack Obama – will fund 3,800 teaching jobs in Connecticut at an average cost of more than $88,000. The one-time infusion of $336 million will temporarily...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 4, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care
Commissioner Dan Esty, Connecticut’s chief regulator of the environment and utilities, was paid by United Illuminating in 2009, the smaller of the state’s two electric utilities, according to a disclosure by his wife, former state Rep. Elizabeth Esty. In 2009, before...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 20, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Neal Kearney, a former deputy warden with the Connecticut Department of Correction, is getting a different perspective on his old job – this time from behind bars. Kearney pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault in June for getting sexual favors...
