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UConn faces deficit and raises tuition while subsidizing sports by $18.9 million
With UConn facing a $42.6 million budget deficit and raising tuition by 6.5 percent next year, here is a look at the money behind UConn athletics. Source: ESPN and author calculations comparing 101 NCAA Division 1-A public colleges and universities with available date...
Jepsen’s ebook win averages 86 cents per resident
Connecticut residents are beginning to receive settlement payments from ebook publishers thanks to the efforts of Attorney General George Jepsen and his peers across the country. Nationally the settlement amounts to $166 million, with $3 million intended for...
$2.6 million IT bonding package includes funding for ‘weapons registration system’
The State Bond Commission is scheduled to vote Friday on $2.6 million in information technology upgrades at three state agencies, including a “special licensing and weapons registration system.” The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection,...
Democratic Party collects February donations from ESPN and Blue Sky Studios
The Connecticut Democratic Party continued to legally collect donations from state contractors using its federal account in February, according to the most recent Federal Elections Commission filing, raising a little more than $133,000 from all sources. Six ESPN...
Company run by son of Voices for Children co-founder on track for $3 million in state aid
The State Bond Commission will consider granting $3 million in state assistance next week to a company run by Josh Geballe, son of the co-founder of Voices for Children. Geballe is CEO of Branford-based Core Informatics. His mother, Shelley Geballe, co-founded and ran...
Accountants: “It would be misleading to exclude” UConn Foundation from state finances
This year, accountants included language emphasizing the close relationship between the University of Connecticut Foundation and state finances. The UConn Foundation is currently fighting legislation that would require it to comply with the Freedom of Information Act...
Mental Health Hand-Wringing and Ignorance Over Middletown Facility
Susan Bigelow recently posted an opinion piece on CT News Junkie regarding the opening of an all-girls locked psychiatric unit in Middletown in which she questioned both the need for and the effectiveness of such a treatment facility. Clearly Ms. Bigelow has no...
GOP donor switches to Dems after Malloy election, bond commission approves $6 million in state support
Abul Islam was a generous donor to the Connecticut Republican Party – until the state elected a Democratic governor. Islam, as the principal of a state contractor, can only give to the federal accounts of either party. A party’s federal account cannot benefit...
Top teacher pension goes to double-dipping CREC chief for total pay of $328,000
The largest teacher pension in the state of Connecticut goes to the head of the Capitol Region Education Council where he makes $130,000 in salary on top of his $198,000 pension. Bruce Douglas has headed CREC since 2001. CREC runs 18 magnet schools, administers...
Former rival’s nod gives Greenberg endorsements from more than half of Fifth District towns
Mark Greenberg, in his third run for Congress in Connecticut’s Fifth District, is well on his way to securing the Republican nomination. Last week, Farmington became the 21st Republican town committee, out of 40 41, to endorse Greenberg. Support from Farmington...