by Zachary Janowski | Nov 18, 2014 | Features, General, Health Care, Politics, State Budget, Transparency, Unions
House Republicans say a controversial healthcare economist behind Obamacare received at least $120,000 for his work in Connecticut. Jonathan Gruber of MIT has been in the spotlight for recently publicized video footage of him criticizing American voters for being...
by Zachary Janowski | Nov 14, 2014 | Features, General, Health Care, Politics, Transparency, Unions
Remember Sustinet, Connecticut’s $1 billion-plus plan to combine Medicaid, state employee health plans and a government-run health insurer? In 2010, MIT health economist Jonathan Gruber performed modeling for the Sustinet plan. Gruber, considered an architect of...
by Zachary Janowski | Oct 22, 2014 | Ethics, Features, General, Politics, Unions
A complaint alleges that a political action committee run by a Democratic state representative failed to disclose its activity properly, including last-minute contributions to town party committees right before the 2013 municipal election. After Donna Hemmann, a...
by Zachary Janowski | Sep 5, 2014 | Education, Features, General, Unions
A Connecticut teachers’ union official who holds an appointed position in state government calls herself a “union thug and proud of it” on her Twitter page. Jean Morningstar is second vice president of the American Federation of Teachers Connecticut. Gov. Dannel...
by Andrew Parrish | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, Commentary, General, Health Care, Legal/Courts, Unions
As millions anxiously awaited the Supreme Court’s decision in Hobby Lobby v Sebelius (regarding the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that all employers provide contraception coverage despite religious objections) the Justices released their decision in another case that...
by Suzanne Bates | Jun 19, 2014 | Features, General, Politics, Unions
Connecticut’s public employee unions are big players in the state’s elections, spending millions on their political operations, which may affect 2014 races. The unions are a highly-focused, highly-motivated interest group when it comes to state-level elections,...
