by Zachary Janowski | Apr 26, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending, Video
“At some point this debate is not about spending in the abstract. It’s about what the proper role of government is,” said Ed Crane, founder and president of the Cato Institute, at a luncheon held April 14 by the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. “Somebody has to...
by Zachary Janowski | Apr 21, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Congressman Jim Himes told a group of Hartford business leaders Thursday that Congress is “playing with fire” by debating whether to increase the debt ceiling. Himes, D-4th, said hesitation puts the full faith and credit of the U.S. government in jeopardy. “We have to...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 30, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care, Taxes & Spending
SustiNet, the ambitious state plan to bring everyone with state-purchased insurance under one umbrella organization, will cost at least $62 million, according to a study funded by the state’s insurance companies. The report, completed by Hay Group of Arlington,...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 22, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care, Taxes & Spending
A fertility clinic affiliated with the University of Connecticut Health Center mistakenly implanted one woman with another woman’s fertilized embryo in 2009, but the doctor who runs the clinic still earned more than $800,000 last year making him the fifth highest-paid...
by Zachary Janowski | Mar 14, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending, Video
Connecticut lawmakers balanced the state budget last year by instituting a new tax on electric bills. Although, the new tax went into effect Jan. 1, 2011, for Connecticut Light & Power customers, it goes largely unnoticed because it replaces a fee customers paid...
by Zachary Janowski | Jan 28, 2011 | Features, General, Taxes & Spending
Last year Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed a 90-page energy bill that passed in the waning days of the legislative session without the normal sequence of public hearing and comment. That bill is back – and as Senate Bill 1, highlighting its importance to Senate Democrats, who...
