by Zachary Janowski | Nov 3, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care
The Jackson Laboratory – which will receive $291 million in state subsidies for a new building on the Farmington campus of the University of Connecticut Health Center – announced Thursday a joint venture in New York City will go forward with support from the city and...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 3, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Much of Connecticut is still in the dark, recovering from an uncharacteristically early snowstorm that knocked out power across the state. The outrage – err, outage – map still shows towns in black or deep purple, indicating more than 60 percent of Connecticut Light...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 27, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The state of Connecticut filed suit Oct. 6 to make a jailed former deputy warden pay the costs of his imprisonment, two weeks after Raising Hale reported he didn’t qualify for the state’s pension revocation statute. Neal Kearney pleaded guilty to one count of...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 26, 2011 | Features, General
Gov. Dannel Malloy is seeking $291 million in state money to bring the Jackson Laboratory to Connecticut and reverse a recent decline in the biotech industry. Connecticut’s share of U.S. biotech jobs fell by 78 percent over the past decade, according to the Institute...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 25, 2011 | Features, General
Gov. Dannel Malloy took his policy of mandatory sick leave on the road to Washington Friday and made a point to criticize conservative policies as “national imperialism.” Malloy said his mother’s job as a nurse inspired his desire to mandate paid sick leave, which...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 20, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care, Taxes & Spending
Gov. Dannel Malloy will ask the legislature to approve a $291 million incentive package for nonprofit genetic research laboratory to open in Connecticut, after a similar effort to open a lab in Florida failed. The Jackson Laboratory of Bar Harbor, Maine, does genetic...
