by Suzanne Bates | Feb 1, 2013 | Blog, Education, Features, General, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Gov. Dannel Malloy announced on Thursday that he wants to borrow $1.5 billion over the next 10 years to strengthen the science, technology, engineering and math programs at the University of Connecticut. This announcement raises a few questions. First, how much of...
by Katherine Concepcion | Jan 31, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The Department of Public Health paid one employee for 28 hours of work in a single day, according to auditors. DPH made the payment for a combination of on-call hours and regular working hours. “We were told that employees are paid for on-call duty even when they are...
by Suzanne Bates | Jan 26, 2013 | Economy, Education, Features, General, Health Care
This week two more examples surfaced of how men are falling behind women, lending credence to the national narrative that men – particularly young men – are struggling to keep up. More young men than young women in Connecticut drop out of high school, and the state’s...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 25, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Taxpayers owe a growing debt to state employees for their unused paid time off, recently totaling more than $700 million or $11,500 per employee. In other words, if every state employee retired today, taxpayers would owe them more than $700 million for their unused...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 23, 2013 | Features, General, Politics
Supreme Court nominee Andrew McDonald used a private email account in his official capacity as general counsel to Gov. Dannel Malloy on at least three occasions, according to emails obtained by Raising Hale, raising questions about whether he used the account to evade...
by Suzanne Bates | Jan 18, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care
The state is moving closer to the creation of a database that will track the intimate details of our medical choices – linking our social security numbers, dates of birth and other demographic information to the health care we receive. While the regulations for this...
