by Zachary Janowski | Dec 13, 2013 | Economy, Ethics, Features, General, Legal/Courts, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The list of state contractors banned from contributing to political campaigns is the best effort of state agencies, but it isn’t definitive, a reality highlighted by the absence from the list of several companies with publicly-acknowledged state relationships. For...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 11, 2013 | Education, Features, General, State Budget
The Board of Regents for Higher Education will give Christmas raises to 279 managers before a consulting firm completes a six-figure study of how it pays those employees. The board, which oversees Connecticut’s state universities and community colleges, hired Sibson...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 10, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, Taxes & Spending
Access Health CT, the quasi-public state agency that sells insurance under Obamacare, spent nearly $75,000 to commission three murals, plus nearly $4,000 to have one of them installed. Contracts with the three artists – Adam Niklewicz, Katro Storm and Rafael Cornier...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 5, 2013 | Ethics, Features, General, Politics, Transportation
Eight donors affiliated with HAKS Engineers, a Department of Transportation contractor, gave generously to the Connecticut Democratic Party in October and circumstantial evidence suggests they may have attended a New York City event with Gov. Dannel Malloy. Malloy’s...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 2, 2013 | Ethics, Features, General, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending, Transportation
A husband, wife and son each wrote $10,000 checks to the Connecticut Democratic Party weeks after learning the Department of Transportation selected their company for a $500 million Stamford redevelopment project. The state will provide $35 million for parking garages...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 27, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The Institute for Truth in Accounting named Connecticut one of 13 “Turkey States” for spending more than it took in last year according to a measure the institute calculates. “Turkeys may be tasty on the Thanksgiving table, but they aren’t the...
