by Zachary Janowski | Apr 27, 2012 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The Connecticut Bond Commission delayed a vote Friday on a $300,000 grant for the New Haven People’s Center, according to the CTMirror. Raising Hale reported on the item before the commission meeting this morning. More from the Mirror: “An organization like this...
by Zachary Janowski | Apr 27, 2012 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The Connecticut Bond Commission will consider a $300,000 grant Friday to the New Haven People’s Center, an organization with ties to the Communist Party. According to the commission’s agenda, the center will use the money for “exterior masonry repairs, new roofing,...
by Zachary Janowski | Apr 24, 2012 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
An audit of the Commission on the Deaf and Hearing Impaired found certain interpreters overbill the agency which leads to higher costs for clients who use their services. The Auditors of Public Accounts said interpreters employed by the commission use labor grievances...
by Zachary Janowski | Apr 19, 2012 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
When average Connecticut taxpayers completed their returns for the deadline earlier this week they may have paid marginal rates higher than the state’s top tax bracket because of the way the state phases out certain deductions. Marginal taxes determine how much of the...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 22, 2012 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Money wasn’t always so tight in Connecticut. Before the 2008 financial crisis, former Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell and Democratic leaders in the legislature set up a slush fund that allowed them to spend $26 million on grants to any recipient they chose. The grants...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 5, 2012 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The board of directors for Connecticut’s government-run venture capital fund unanimously approved a $291 million deal Thursday with Jackson Laboratory, a Maine nonprofit, to subsidize its development of a facility on the campus of the UConn Health Center. The General...
