by Zachary Janowski | Sep 24, 2012 | Features
Lawyers for the state are reviewing more than a decade of foreign-exchange transactions on behalf of the its pension funds to determine whether the it should sue to recover improper charges. Attorney General George Jepsen engaged a Darien-based consulting firm last...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 19, 2012 | Blog, General, Taxes & Spending
City Journal published my op-ed yesterday about Gov. Dannel Malloy’s failing plan to save money from the state employee unions: Delivering his first budget address as Connecticut governor in February 2011, Dannel P. Malloy described the principle that would...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 12, 2012 | Blog, Education, Features, General
Sharon Palmer – Communist award winner and vice president of American Federation of Teachers Connecticut – will become Connecticut’s labor commissioner on Oct. 5. In her leadership role with AFT, she emailed the union’s membership Tuesday asking them to support...
by Zachary Janowski | Aug 31, 2012 | Blog, General, Politics
The Norwalk Hour had an interesting story Thursday about a judge reducing the value of a commercial building by nearly $15 million, saving its owners about $1 million in taxes over five years. The article failed to mention the building, MerrittView, is owned by the...
by Zachary Janowski | Aug 31, 2012 | Blog, General, Politics
With welfare reform in the news again because of a tussle on the issue between Pres. Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, here is a study worth looking at. The University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center studied the impact of 1990s welfare...
