by Zachary Janowski | Apr 28, 2011 | Features, General
The General Assembly’s finance committee had an amendment ready last week to add Sunday liquor sales to an unrelated sales-tax bill, but declined to bring it up for a vote. Sunday liquor sales, a perennial issue at the Capitol in recent years, would have been added...
by Zachary Janowski | Apr 26, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending, Video
“At some point this debate is not about spending in the abstract. It’s about what the proper role of government is,” said Ed Crane, founder and president of the Cato Institute, at a luncheon held April 14 by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. “Somebody has to...
by Zachary Janowski | Apr 25, 2011 | General, State Budget
[This article appeared in Budget & Tax News, published by the Heartland Institute, on April 25, 2011.) Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy took office in January knowing he had to balance a budget deficit in excess of $3 billion. Malloy, the former Mayor of Stamford...
by Zachary Janowski | Apr 21, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Congressman Jim Himes told a group of Hartford business leaders Thursday that Congress is “playing with fire” by debating whether to increase the debt ceiling. Himes, D-4th, said hesitation puts the full faith and credit of the U.S. government in jeopardy. “We have to...
by Zachary Janowski | Apr 20, 2011 | Education, Features, General
Update your GPS. Bridgeport just got bigger. Forty-eight acres formerly in Trumbull are now in Bridgeport. Gov. Dannel Malloy signed Senate Bill 1238, a special act changing the municipal-boundary line between Bridgeport and Trumbull, Saturday after the General...
