by Katherine Concepcion | Feb 21, 2013 | Features, General, Politics, State Budget
Protestors young and old rallied Wednesday to oppose a state plan to house prisoners and mental health patients in a former Rocky Hill nursing home. The plan would have a private company reopen the shuttered Haven Health Care nursing home on West Street, located in a...
by Katherine Concepcion | Feb 20, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The Department of Public Health illegally paid volunteers on a peer review committee tasked with examining applications for state stem cell funding, according to auditors. The department paid $25,863 to volunteers members of the Stem Cell Research Peer Review...
by Katherine Concepcion | Feb 18, 2013 | Blog, General, Politics
Connecticut is the fourth most liberal state, according to a recent Gallop poll, with nearly three in 10 voters calling themselves liberal. Massachusetts, Oregon and Vermont are more liberal than Connecticut; Delaware is equally liberal. About 40 percent of...
by Katherine Concepcion | Feb 16, 2013 | Education, Features, General
State auditors found the Connecticut Department of Public Health licensed new daycare centers to open without waiting for background check results – department officials did not clarify whether the practice continues – leaving auditors to conclude “children...
by Katherine Concepcion | Jan 31, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The Department of Public Health paid one employee for 28 hours of work in a single day, according to auditors. DPH made the payment for a combination of on-call hours and regular working hours. “We were told that employees are paid for on-call duty even when they are...
