by Zachary Janowski | Oct 1, 2012 | Features, General, State Budget
Connecticut taxpayers own $23.2 billion worth of stuff, including more than $10 billion of infrastructure, a quarter-million acres of land and fine art worth almost $100 million, according to the state’s property inventory for 2011. Comptroller Kevin Lembo’s office...
by Kelly Delaney | Sep 28, 2012 | General
Just over a year ago the Connecticut General Assembly passed a controversial law allowing the early release of prisoners who show good behavior and participate in rehabilitation programs while serving time. The bill, which passed along party lines, allows non-violent...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 27, 2012 | Economy, Features, General, Taxes & Spending
State economic development officials ran 10 simulations to estimate the job creation impact of extending between $50 and $80 million to CIGNA in return for moving its corporate headquarters to Connecticut, but according to their testimony to Is over-processed on free...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 19, 2012 | Blog, General, Taxes & Spending
City Journal published my op-ed yesterday about Gov. Dannel Malloy’s failing plan to save money from the state employee unions: Delivering his first budget address as Connecticut governor in February 2011, Dannel P. Malloy described the principle that would...
by Kelly Delaney | Sep 18, 2012 | Blog, Education, General
According to the Wall Street Journal, the two largest teachers unions spent $330 million on politics and peddling influence between 2007 and 2011. “Some of the spending that the two teachers unions identified to the Labor Department as ‘political and lobbying’...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 12, 2012 | Blog, Education, Features, General
Sharon Palmer – Communist award winner and vice president of American Federation of Teachers Connecticut – will become Connecticut’s labor commissioner on Oct. 5. In her leadership role with AFT, she emailed the union’s membership Tuesday asking them to support...
