by Zachary Janowski | Mar 30, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care, Taxes & Spending
SustiNet, the ambitious state plan to bring everyone with state-purchased insurance under one umbrella organization, will cost at least $62 million, according to a study funded by the state’s insurance companies. The report, completed by Hay Group of Arlington,...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 25, 2011 | Features, General
In the final round of audits for the 2008 election season, the State Elections Enforcement Commission has referred the candidate committees of Reps. Mae Flexer, D-Killingly, and Marie Lopez Kirkley-Bey, D-Hartford, to its enforcement division for further review....
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 22, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care, Taxes & Spending
A fertility clinic affiliated with the University of Connecticut Health Center mistakenly implanted one woman with another woman’s fertilized embryo in 2009, but the doctor who runs the clinic still earned more than $800,000 last year making him the fifth highest-paid...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 17, 2011 | Features, General, State Budget
Gov. Dannel Malloy will finish fiscal year 2012 with an extra $142,300 left in his office budget and return it to the state treasury – if all goes according to plan. Malloy’s budget includes $2.3 million for his office staff. He has touted the fact that he cut his...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 14, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending, Video
Connecticut lawmakers balanced the state budget last year by instituting a new tax on electric bills. Although, the new tax went into effect Jan. 1, 2011, for Connecticut Light & Power customers, it goes largely unnoticed because it replaces a fee customers paid...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 10, 2011 | Features, General
The U.S. Census Bureau released detailed data for Connecticut Wednesday launching the state’s redistricting process. The reapportionment committee has until Sept. 15, 2011, to get three plans – congressional, senate and house – passed by two-thirds of each house of...
