by Zachary Janowski | Jan 26, 2012 | Features, General, State Budget
The agreement to save money on state employee compensation negotiated by Gov. Dannel Malloy and the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition last year will save $3.5 billion over 20 years, according to the latest actuarial valuation, less than half of the $8.3...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 25, 2012 | Features, General, Municipal
East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr., who has been in the center of the news after the arrest of four East Haven police officers by federal investigators and ensuing inflammatory comments, is appealing a decision by the State Employee Retirement Commission to end his...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 20, 2012 | Education, Features, General, State Budget
The University of Connecticut Foundation will pay about $4,500 to send Gov. Dannel Malloy to the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, while the state owes the foundation $18 million in matching grants. Since 2007, the state has pledged to match...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 16, 2012 | Energy, Features, General
Connecticut’s Attorney General and utility regulators paid lawyers – who “failed in the extreme” according to one federal judge – almost $4.6 million to challenge payments to three New York energy companies. The state began the appeal process last year despite the...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 13, 2012 | Features, General, State Budget
During the contentious Connecticut budget debates of 2011, a Latino advocacy commission had to award all the money in a small scholarship fund containing private donations to avoid losing it in a budget-balancing sweep of the account. Going into the budget debate,...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 6, 2012 | Features, General, Health Care
As part of the unionization process Gov. Dannel Malloy began last year with two executive orders, state officials are preparing to release the personal information of several thousand people who work for Connecticut’s elderly and disabled. In September, Executive...
