by Zachary Janowski | Dec 29, 2010 | Features, General, Health Care, Municipal, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
A state healthcare board approved recommendations Wednesday that call for the combination of state employees, prisoners and the poor into a single healthcare pool by 2012 and the expansion of that pool into a government-run insurance plan by 2014. The SustiNet Board...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 3, 2010 | Features, General, Health Care, Municipal, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Connecticut state employees, HUSKY and Medicaid recipients and municipal workers could all share the same health plan within the next three years if a proposal by the SustiNet board of directors goes forward. The 11-member SustiNet board met Thursday to begin making...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 30, 2010 | Education, Features, General, Municipal, State Budget, Taxes & Spending, Video
Narrator: The City of Bridgeport is planning to build Connecticut’s most expensive new school ever. A difficult location and eco-friendly design contribute to the school’s high cost. Trumbull Planning and Zoning Commission, Special Meeting, November 9, 2010 Chris...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 1, 2010 | Features, General, Municipal, State Budget
The 2009 municipal election in rural Sharon was marred by two instances of unseemly activity and now party leaders there are sounding the alarm that similar shenanigans could happen elsewhere in the state. David Helming, chairman of the Sharon Republican Town...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 22, 2010 | Education, Features, General, Municipal, State Budget, Taxes & Spending
Democratic candidate for governor Dan Malloy made a pitch to 3,000 teachers Wednesday night during a telephone town hall, using the opportunity to attack his opponent’s commitment to education funding and make other key distinctions. Malloy referenced the state’s...
by Zachary Janowski | Aug 13, 2010 | Features, General, Municipal, State Budget, Taxes & Spending, Transportation, Video
Chester First Selectman Tom Marsh is running for governor as a member of the Independent Party. Who is he? As first selectman, he saved American taxpayers $600,000, stopped polluting Chester Creek and set the 2010 town budget lower than the 2005 budget he inherited....
