by Zachary Janowski | Feb 25, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, Politics
Five Connecticut nursing homes in a heated labor dispute with striking union workers filed for bankruptcy Sunday, claiming the cost of union pensions and health benefits forced them to take this step. HealthBridge, a New Jersey company, operates a number of nursing...
by Suzanne Bates | Feb 22, 2013 | Features, General
The state had to protect its computer system 2.1 billion times last year, according to the state Department of Administrative Services’ annual report. That works out to around 42 million hits a week, the report says, although state officials won’t describe their...
by Katherine Concepcion | Feb 21, 2013 | Features, General, Politics, State Budget
Protestors young and old rallied Wednesday to oppose a state plan to house prisoners and mental health patients in a former Rocky Hill nursing home. The plan would have a private company reopen the shuttered Haven Health Care nursing home on West Street, located in a...
by Zack Albert | Feb 20, 2013 | General
Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and current Fox NFL Sunday commentator Terry Bradshaw once remarked, “I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid.” Echoing this sentiment, Connecticut elected officials and residents seem to be reminding Governor Malloy, “We may have been...
by Katherine Concepcion | Feb 20, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The Department of Public Health illegally paid volunteers on a peer review committee tasked with examining applications for state stem cell funding, according to auditors. The department paid $25,863 to volunteers members of the Stem Cell Research Peer Review...
by Suzanne Bates | Feb 19, 2013 | Blog, Economy, General, Politics
% Liberal Unemployment Washington DC 40.8 8.5 Massachusetts 30.5 6.7 Oregon 29.3 8.4 Vermont 29.2 5.1 Delaware 28.4 6.9 Connecticut 28.4 8.6 Washington 28.3 7.6 Rhode Island 28.3 10.2 Hawaii 27.7 5.2 New York 27.7 8.2 Average 7.54 % Conservative Unemployment Alabama...
