by Zachary Janowski | Oct 14, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The Office of Comptroller Kevin Lembo released details Friday on the longevity payments to state employees totaling more than $10 million. Non-union employees received about 60 percent of total longevity payments. Union employees received about 40 percent. The highest...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 13, 2011 | Education, Features, General
The American Jobs Act – a $447 billion combination of tax cuts and government spending championed by President Barack Obama – will fund 3,800 teaching jobs in Connecticut at an average cost of more than $88,000. The one-time infusion of $336 million will temporarily...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 7, 2011 | Features, General
Priscilla Dickman, 55, of Coventry, is the first and only person to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of Connecticut’s new ethics laws and she is also the rare worker convicted of committing fraud so she can go back to work. Dickman is appealing both of those...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 5, 2011 | Features, General
Commissioner Dan Esty disclosed Wednesday $1.2 million in speaking fees earned over the past five years in response to scrutiny of his wife’s financial disclosure forms. Esty, who heads the newly former Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, was a Yale...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 4, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care
Commissioner Dan Esty, Connecticut’s chief regulator of the environment and utilities, was paid by United Illuminating in 2009, the smaller of the state’s two electric utilities, according to a disclosure by his wife, former state Rep. Elizabeth Esty. In 2009, before...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 30, 2011 | Features, General, State Budget
Connecticut owes its employees billions of dollars in future pension benefits, a fact that is currently hidden in the footnotes of its financial reports, but a few changes on the way will make these debts more transparent. In addition to the money invested in the...
