by Zachary Janowski | Nov 3, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Much of Connecticut is still in the dark, recovering from an uncharacteristically early snowstorm that knocked out power across the state. The outrage – err, outage – map still shows towns in black or deep purple, indicating more than 60 percent of Connecticut Light...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 27, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The state of Connecticut filed suit Oct. 6 to make a jailed former deputy warden pay the costs of his imprisonment, two weeks after Raising Hale reported he didn’t qualify for the state’s pension revocation statute. Neal Kearney pleaded guilty to one count of...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 20, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care, Taxes & Spending
Gov. Dannel Malloy will ask the legislature to approve a $291 million incentive package for nonprofit genetic research laboratory to open in Connecticut, after a similar effort to open a lab in Florida failed. The Jackson Laboratory of Bar Harbor, Maine, does genetic...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 14, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
The Office of Comptroller Kevin Lembo released details Friday on the longevity payments to state employees totaling more than $10 million. Non-union employees received about 60 percent of total longevity payments. Union employees received about 40 percent. The highest...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 20, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Neal Kearney, a former deputy warden with the Connecticut Department of Correction, is getting a different perspective on his old job – this time from behind bars. Kearney pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree sexual assault in June for getting sexual favors...
by Zachary Janowski | Aug 11, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Install timer on waterfall. Refurbish pool area lion-head fountain. Replace pool house French doors. These were three of the 47 work orders on 990 Prospect Street – the state-owned home where Gov. Dannel Malloy and his family are living – pending on July 26, according...
