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Malloy promotes mandatory sick leave, decries ‘national imperialism’
Gov. Dannel Malloy took his policy of mandatory sick leave on the road to Washington Friday and made a point to criticize conservative policies as “national imperialism.” Malloy said his mother’s job as a nurse inspired his desire to mandate paid sick leave, which...
Malloy asks legislature for $291 million to move genetics lab to Connecticut
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...
State labor board rules in favor of teacher bonuses in 4 of 5 cases
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...
Comptroller’s Office releases details of longevity payments
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...
Is Health Education A Missed Opportunity?
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...
Second Obama stimulus will create 3,800 teaching jobs in Conn. despite level class sizes
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...
Six years after retirement, state employee’s prosecution and appeals drag on
Priscilla Dickman, 55, of Coventry, is the first and only person to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of Connecticut’s new ethics laws and she is also the rare worker convicted of committing fraud so she can go back to work. Dickman is appealing both of those...
Esty discloses $1.2 million in speaking fees
Commissioner Dan Esty disclosed Wednesday $1.2 million in speaking fees earned over the past five years in response to scrutiny of his wife’s financial disclosure forms. Esty, who heads the newly former Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, was a Yale...
United Illuminating paid DEEP Commissioner Esty in 2009
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...
New pension rules will nearly double debt on Connecticut’s balance sheet
Connecticut owes its employees billions of dollars in future pension benefits, a fact that is currently hidden in the footnotes of its financial reports, but a few changes on the way will make these debts more transparent. In addition to the money invested in the...