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...
by Zachary Janowski | Aug 23, 2012 | Blog, General
Money magazine just ranked four Connecticut cities in the top 100 to live in nationwide. The four winning cities – Greenwich, Hamden, Fairfield and West Hartford – are nice suburban towns and have down well in previous Money rankings. While Connecticut has some of the...
by Zachary Janowski | Aug 21, 2012 | Blog, Education, General
Jonathan Pelto had an interesting post over the weekend about unemployment in Connecticut. He criticizes the typically-reported unemployment rate and mentions the problems pointed to by other unemployment measures, something I have written about here and here. Pelto...
