by Zachary Janowski | Mar 4, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget
A bill pending the Connecticut General Assembly would allow a quasi-public state agency to issue bonds on behalf of out-of-state hospitals if they are owned by a Connecticut parent and located in a neighboring state. Connecticut already has the highest level of bonded...
by Zachary Janowski | Feb 26, 2013 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending, Transportation
New public transportation projects are starting to eat up more of the state’s budget, while the heavily-used Metro-North Railroad is facing cuts in state support. Gov. Dannel Malloy’s budget proposes to cut Metro-North $5.5 million next year and $4.4 million the year...
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 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 Zachary Janowski | Feb 14, 2013 | Features, General, Municipal, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Gov. Dannel Malloy’s latest budget proposes spending increases of $1.8 billion threatening the state’s spending cap to the extent he is proposing to change its meaning. The Office of Fiscal Analysis, the legislature’s budget arm, reports that Malloy’s budget could be...
by Zack Albert | Feb 6, 2013 | Blog, Economy, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Connecticut has a spending problem. Since 1970, state expenditures have increased an inflation-adjusted 368 percent, a figure which does not include the additional spending increases Governor Malloy is expected to announce at noon today. Reuters predicted...
