by Zachary Janowski | Apr 11, 2013 | Education, Features, General, State Budget
Look at the evidence. The University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball team just won its eighth NCAA championship. The men’s basketball team won the NCAA tournament two years ago. In 2011, the football team played in the Fiesta Bowl, part of the Bowl Championship...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog, General, Health Care
The health insurance plan selected by Connecticut’s Affordable Care Act insurance exchange as its “benchmark” is no longer affordable to the extent it is no longer even for sale, first reported by Trudy Lieberman writing for the Columbia Journalism...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 25, 2013 | Features, General, Municipal, Politics
State contractors and the people who work for them can make donations to Connecticut’s government and quasi-public agencies, but they can’t talk about them. In 2006, the Citizen’s Ethics Advisory Board held that lobbyists, state contractors and businesses regulated by...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 23, 2013 | Features, General
If financial success can predict the outcome of college basketball games, the University of Michigan will win both NCAA basketball tournaments, despite getting seeded fourth (men) and eighth (women). I completed a NCAA tournament bracket – provided by ESPN – based on...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 21, 2013 | Features, General
If financial success can predict the outcome of college basketball games, 4-seed Michigan will win it all this year. I completed a NCAA tournament bracket – provided by ESPN – based on an analysis of federal filings from each of the 64 teams in the tournament this...