by Zachary Janowski | Dec 30, 2013 | Education, Ethics, Features, General, Politics
Gov. Dannel Malloy publicly named Nicholas Donofrio chairman of the Board of Regents of Higher Education weeks after he and his wife made $10,000 contributions to the Connecticut Democratic Party. The Ridgefield couple made the max-out donations to the party’s federal...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 27, 2013 | Ethics, Features, General, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending, Transportation
The Connecticut Democratic Party continues to benefit from the generosity of a preferred developer selected by the Department of Transportation to develop the area near Stamford’s train station. Last month, the party collected $27,500 from donors affiliated with the...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 17, 2013 | Features, General
The task force attempting to balance government transparency with crime-victim privacy provides a simple – even harmless – example of how Connecticut legislators can avoid disclosure of their email. In this case, the missing emails are of no real consequence, but they...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 13, 2013 | Economy, Ethics, Features, General, Legal/Courts, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The list of state contractors banned from contributing to political campaigns is the best effort of state agencies, but it isn’t definitive, a reality highlighted by the absence from the list of several companies with publicly-acknowledged state relationships. For...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 11, 2013 | Education, Features, General, State Budget
The Board of Regents for Higher Education will give Christmas raises to 279 managers before a consulting firm completes a six-figure study of how it pays those employees. The board, which oversees Connecticut’s state universities and community colleges, hired Sibson...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 10, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, Taxes & Spending
Access Health CT, the quasi-public state agency that sells insurance under Obamacare, spent nearly $75,000 to commission three murals, plus nearly $4,000 to have one of them installed. Contracts with the three artists – Adam Niklewicz, Katro Storm and Rafael Cornier...
