by Zachary Janowski | Feb 2, 2013 | Features, General
Members of one of Connecticut’s ceremonial militia units are suing the state for allegedly seizing $10,000 worth of private ammunition, terminating a lease and failing to pay members for training. State officials claim the unit has not kept its weapons and ammunition...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 25, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Taxpayers owe a growing debt to state employees for their unused paid time off, recently totaling more than $700 million or $11,500 per employee. In other words, if every state employee retired today, taxpayers would owe them more than $700 million for their unused...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 23, 2013 | Features, General, Politics
Supreme Court nominee Andrew McDonald used a private email account in his official capacity as general counsel to Gov. Dannel Malloy on at least three occasions, according to emails obtained by Raising Hale, raising questions about whether he used the account to evade...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 17, 2013 | Features, General, Municipal, Politics
New Haven City Clerk Ron Smith was not drafted by the New York Knicks, and he never played for the team, contrary to his official biography on the city’s website. Smith said he didn’t know how the error entered his biography. “Somebody made a big blunder,” he said....
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 16, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Auditors found a state employee worked overtime “for approximately one hour a day for almost the entirety of fiscal year 2009” without approval from the agency’s commissioner as required by department policy. Despite the claim by auditors that they found no evidence...
