by Zachary Janowski | Jan 11, 2013 | Features, General, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Despite already outnumbering rank-and-file members, Connecticut’s legislative leadership grew this year to 99 leaders in the 187-member General Assembly. Each legislator with a leadership title gets a small pay increase. Twenty-seven committee chairmen and 19 ranking...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 9, 2013 | Blog, General, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
My latest post to Public Sector Inc.: … Whoever Connecticut’s next governor is – whether Malloy wins, loses or takes a job in Washington – his or her single most important task will be to negotiate a new agreement with state employees. If...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 2, 2013 | Economy, Features, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Connecticut officials emphasize the job impact of incentives given to companies, often referencing calculations done using economic modeling software to justify the deals, but they don’t apply the same scrutiny to tax changes like the largest-in-history increase...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 20, 2012 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The bipartisan plan passed Wednesday to balance the state budget eliminated some state employee bonuses that have been the subject of populist ire, but replaced those bonuses with raises of the same value, which will end up costing taxpayers more. Under the new rules,...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 19, 2012 | Education, Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Connecticut’s higher education bureaucracy – including a flagship university and its health center, four state universities and 12 community colleges – employs 29 spokesmen known as public information officers to work with the media, among other tasks, at a cost of...
