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State to publish personal information of thousands who work for elderly and disabled
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...
Connecticut Innovations board unanimously approves Jackson Laboratory deal
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...
Vote to unionize daycare owners will continue until Dec. 20
Certain Connecticut daycare owners have until Dec. 20 to vote on whether Service Employees International Union 2001 should represent them in negotiations with the state. The vote, part of a process kick-started by Gov. Dannel Malloy’s executive order nine, began on...
Malloy’s working groups to unionize daycare and healthcare get started quietly
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...
Occupy Hartford, population zero
The Occupy Hartford protest on the corner of Broad St. and Farmington Ave. lacked protesters Friday afternoon, leaving only a small radio to speak for the movement amid the tents full of trash. “Neither rain nor snow nor dark of night,” one sign promises emptily. At...
Recession and Obamacare tax kill 38 Conn. tanning businesses
An economic downturn and 10 percent tax hastily added to the 2010 healthcare reform law combined to end 38 tanning Connecticut businesses in two years, according to an industry group. John Overstreet, executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association, said...
Hartford spends $238,000 per high school diploma
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...
Hiring subsidy only helps residents of 39 towns
The bipartisan job-creation bill signed into law by Gov. Dannel Malloy last month includes a $10 million subsidy for new hiring over the next two years – but residents from 130 Connecticut towns need not apply. The General Assembly passed the bill almost unanimously,...
The greatest source of increased health is greater prosperity
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...
Bill Kristol gives hope to Connecticut conservatives
“If there were, God forbid, some accident at this hotel, the Republican Party and the conservative movement in Connecticut would be decimated for decades to come,” The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol told a crowd of more than 200 at a Nov. 4 Yankee Institute...