by Zachary Janowski | Sep 28, 2011 | Features, General
Rep. Chris Murphy told the New England Council in Boston Wednesday that voters are frustrated with Washington – and he is, too. “I can’t live with government on the back of a napkin,” said Murphy, D-5th and a candidate for U.S. Senate, explaining his vote against the...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 22, 2011 | Features, General, State Budget
Connecticut’s planning and budget agency, the Office of Policy and Management, is breaking the law – according to auditors – because the agency’s leaders don’t even know how many reports they are required to write. The General Assembly requires at least 100 OPM...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 21, 2011 | Features, General
Gov. Dannel Malloy took steps today toward forcibly unionizing daycare providers and home health care workers in Connecticut. Malloy used two executive orders, his ninth and tenth, to make the first steps toward forcing these workers to pay union dues like most state...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 20, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Neal Kearney, a former deputy warden with the Connecticut Department of Correction, is getting a different perspective on his old job – this time from behind bars. Kearney pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault in June for getting sexual favors...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 16, 2011 | Education, Features, General
State auditors first notified Southern Connecticut State University that it overpaid employees in a December 2000 audit, a problem that persists unresolved in the most recent audit, issued almost 11 years later. The Auditors of Public Accounts reviewed ten payments to...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 15, 2011 | Features, General
A $13 million profit from an investment in Taiwan is stranded on the island, unavailable to Connecticut’s pension funds, because the state Treasurer’s Office has failed to name an agent to handle its taxes there. The Taiwanese investment – up 16.8 percent annually,...
