by Katherine Concepcion | Feb 21, 2013 | Features, General, Politics, State Budget
Protestors young and old rallied Wednesday to oppose a state plan to house prisoners and mental health patients in a former Rocky Hill nursing home. The plan would have a private company reopen the shuttered Haven Health Care nursing home on West Street, located in a...
by Katherine Concepcion | Feb 20, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The Department of Public Health illegally paid volunteers on a peer review committee tasked with examining applications for state stem cell funding, according to auditors. The department paid $25,863 to volunteers members of the Stem Cell Research Peer Review...
by Katherine Concepcion | Feb 16, 2013 | Education, Features, General
State auditors found the Connecticut Department of Public Health licensed new daycare centers to open without waiting for background check results – department officials did not clarify whether the practice continues – leaving auditors to conclude “children...
by Zachary Janowski | Feb 14, 2013 | Features, General, Municipal, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Gov. Dannel Malloy’s latest budget proposes spending increases of $1.8 billion threatening the state’s spending cap to the extent he is proposing to change its meaning. The Office of Fiscal Analysis, the legislature’s budget arm, reports that Malloy’s budget could be...
by Suzanne Bates | Feb 5, 2013 | Features, General, Politics
The number of children raised in single-parent homes is on the rise in Connecticut, especially in the state’s biggest cities. Statewide the number of children living with single moms went up five percent over the past ten years, from 19 percent to 24 percent,...
by Zachary Janowski | Feb 2, 2013 | Features, General
Members of one of Connecticut’s ceremonial militia units are suing the state for allegedly seizing $10,000 worth of private ammunition, terminating a lease and failing to pay members for training. State officials claim the unit has not kept its weapons and ammunition...
