by Zachary Janowski | Jul 26, 2013 | Features, General, Politics, State Budget
Fifth Street Financial Corp. will relocate to Greenwich thanks to a $5 million enticement from Connecticut taxpayers. Fifth Street Financial is a business development company, essentially a publicly-traded private equity firm. It buys, loans money to and invests in...
by Suzanne Bates | Jul 25, 2013 | Education, Features, General, State Budget
Connecticut is spending millions on so-called “phantom students” because it pays for some students twice – a practice that would end if the state instead “followed the child” with its education dollars. School districts are paid based on the number of school-aged...
by Zachary Janowski | Jul 23, 2013 | Economy, Features, General, Taxes & Spending
A Connecticut economic development official flew business class to China and stayed in three luxury hotels while on a trade mission. Ronald Angelo Jr., deputy commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development, spent about $7,500 of taxpayer money on...
by Jordan Otero | Jul 18, 2013 | General
Recent problems at Charter Oak Health Center, a nonprofit Hartford clinic that largely treats the uninsured, raise questions about the more than $6 million in government funding it receives each year. Charter Oak typically gets about $2 million a year from various...
by Jordan Otero | Jul 17, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget
Although a Hartford health center has been making improvements since the state Department of Public Health started monitoring it last year, changes have been a long time coming. Charter Oak Health Center was placed on probation as part of a consent order after state...
by Jordan Otero | Jul 16, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care
A Glastonbury doctor arrested in connection with alleged sexual assault was quietly released from employment at a Hartford health center in September 2012. Charter Oak Health Center terminated Dr. Tory Westbrook on Sept. 27, 2012, according to Charter Oak...
