by Zachary Janowski | Dec 2, 2011 | Features, General, Video
The Occupy Hartford protest on the corner of Broad St. and Farmington Ave. lacked protesters Friday afternoon, leaving only a small radio to speak for the movement amid the tents full of trash. “Neither rain nor snow nor dark of night,” one sign promises emptily. At...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 2, 2011 | Features, General
An economic downturn and 10 percent tax hastily added to the 2010 healthcare reform law combined to end 38 tanning Connecticut businesses in two years, according to an industry group. John Overstreet, executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association, said...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 29, 2011 | Education, Features, General
Ten Connecticut school districts can produce two high school graduates for the price of one Hartford high school diploma, according to Department of Education data. The most recent 13 years of education, representing kindergarten through 12th grade, cost $165,275 in...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 18, 2011 | Features, General
The bipartisan job-creation bill signed into law by Gov. Dannel Malloy last month includes a $10 million subsidy for new hiring over the next two years – but residents from 130 Connecticut towns need not apply. The General Assembly passed the bill almost unanimously,...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 16, 2011 | General, Health Care
My latest post to Health Justice CT takes on income inequality and the best way to improve health: increase prosperity. If someone offers you half of pie #1 or all of pie #2, the first thing you should ask is, “How big are the pies?” I don’t know when it started, but...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 14, 2011 | Features, General, Video
“If there were, God forbid, some accident at this hotel, the Republican Party and the conservative movement in Connecticut would be decimated for decades to come,” The Weekly Standard’s William Kristol told a crowd of more than 200 at a Nov. 4 Yankee Institute...
