by Katherine Concepcion | Mar 13, 2013 | Education, Features, General, Municipal, Politics, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Members of the Connecticut General Assembly’s planning and development committee questioned the viability Monday of a technology advancement bill that would change the mission of a state-run internet company from serving schools and libraries to competing with...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 11, 2013 | Features, General, Municipal, Taxes & Spending
Over the past decade Connecticut has spent more than $100 million to create an internet provider for schools and libraries, a mission that will evolve if pending legislation proposed by Gov. Dannel Malloy passes. The proposal, S.B. 847, would change the charge of the...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 4, 2013 | Features, General, Health Care, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
A state program that pays government employees $100 annually to manage chronic diseases cost $2.1 million this year because 21,344 employees qualified for the program. That means more than 40 percent of state employees have chronic health conditions. According to the...
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 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...
