by Zachary Janowski | Jul 30, 2014 | Ethics, Features, General, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The new landlord for the Connecticut Democratic Party received bond commission funds last week to renovate a different property totaling $320,000. The Capital Region Development Authority will lend the money to 360 Main Street Associates at 3 percent interest for 20...
by Zachary Janowski | Jul 29, 2014 | Ethics, Features, General, Legal/Courts, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
New legal advice from the agency that regulates Connecticut elections suggests that state contractors using a common workaround to give money to state political parties could be violating the law in certain scenarios. Previous advice from the State Elections...
by Zachary Janowski | Jul 3, 2014 | Features, General, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Connecticut’s oldest public-housing project, Washington Village in Norwalk, has received tens of millions in taxpayer money recently, including $30 million in federal funding this week, while a top leader of the developer in charge of the $110 million project has been...
by Zachary Janowski | Jun 26, 2014 | Features, General, Health Care, Higher education, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
The state awarded another $10 million in stem-cell research grants Tuesday, but not a single private company benefited. Like the $80 million awarded in the previous seven years, most of the money this year went to the University of Connecticut Health Center or Yale...
by Zachary Janowski | Jun 23, 2014 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
A review by an unnamed software company found 4,500 improper licenses on state computers, according to the Auditors of Public Accounts, a failure that could cost more than $5.2 million. Auditors, reporting on the state’s former information technology agency now...
by Zachary Janowski | Jun 18, 2014 | Features, General, State Budget, Taxes & Spending, Unions
The Department of Correction agreed last year to restore nearly three years of expired time off for 40 parole officers, an average of 3.5 weeks each. In 2011, auditors discovered an accounting glitch that allowed a small group of state employees to build up thousands...
