Union Concession And Savings Deal Is Only Remaining Item In State Budget;...
With the 2011 General Assembly session now completed, there is only one issue hanging fire: the ratification of a concession and savings deal with the state employee unions. The agreement covers $1.6...
View ArticleAmazon Pulls Out Of Connecticut Over Online Sales Tax; Republicans Say They...
As predicted by some Republican legislators and others in the trade, Amazon.com has cut off its Connecticut affiliates because the state will be charging an online sales tax. The Hartford Courant's...
View ArticleSenator Steve Cassano And Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield Featured On "The Real...
Senator Steve Cassano of Manchester and Rep. Gary Holder-Winfield of New Haven are the featured guests this weekend on "The Real Story'' on Fox CT. The two Democrats covered a wide variety of issues,...
View ArticleHimes issues call for Weiner to resign; donates campaign contribution from...
Two days after his party's top leaders called for embattled New York congressman Anthony Weiner to resign, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes followed suit. "While millions of Americans go without work, families...
View ArticleYankee Institute Poll: Malloy's Approval Rating Slips To 42%
A new poll commissioned by the Yankee Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank in Hartford, has found that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's approval rating has slipped to 42 percent, down from 50 percent in...
View ArticleLarson on Rep. Weiner: "He deserves the space" to determine his future
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz both issued the call days ago for embattled U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner to step down, but Democratic...
View ArticleQuinnipiac Poll: Malloy's Approval Rating At 38 percent; Voters Strongly...
Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has the approval of only 38 percent of Connecticut voters in his job performance, while 44 percent disapprove, according to a new Quinnipiac University Poll released...
View ArticleAniskovich withdraws from GOP state chairman's race
Former state Senator William Aniskovich has withdrawn his bid to be the next chairman of the state Republican party following questions about his business dealings and his disclosure that he had an...
View ArticleTwo State Employee Locals Vote To Reject Deal With State
Two state employee union locals have voted against accepting the concessions and labor savings agreement with the Malloy administration -- becoming the first ones to do that after five bargaining units...
View ArticleBusway foes gather signatures and public support at Blue Back Square
The campaign to derail the New Britain to Hartford busway made a stop in West Hartford this afternoon. State Sen. Joe Markley, R-Southington, and state Rep. Whit Betts, R-Bristol, brought clipboards...
View ArticleWith Aniskovich out of GOP chairman's race, Norwalk RTC Chair Art Scialabba...
Norwalk Republican Town Chairman Art Scialabba dropped his bid for state party chair earlier this week and threw his support to frontrunner William Aniskovich. But now that Aniskovich has dropped his...
View ArticleThe Koch brothers and the lawsuit
A left-leaning environmental and civil rights group has issued a report documenting what it says is a link between the Koch Brothers and a lawsuit filed by Connecticut and five other states against...
View ArticleState Employees Union Official Says Why His Members Rejected Deal With State;...
A state employee union official Friday explained some of the reasons for this week's rejection of the proposed concessions agreement with the Malloy administration by members of his bargaining unit,...
View ArticleDoug Hageman weighing a return to the GOP Chairman's race
Doug Hageman, another candidate for state Republican chairman who dropped his bid this week and endorsed William Aniskovich, is thinking about jumping back in to the race following Aniskovich's...
View ArticleCorrection Workers' Union Official Blasts Deal With Malloy; Says His Local...
An official in a union local representing state Department of Correction workers spoke out Saturday, blasting leaders of the coalition that negotiated a proposed labor concessions agreement with the...
View ArticleUnions Write Letter To AG Seeking Probe Of Yankee Institute
Below is the text of the letter that Daniel Livingston, chief negotiator for the State Employees' Bargaining Agent Coalition, or SEBAC, wrote late Friday to state Attorney General George Jepsen,...
View ArticleA Correction Workers' Union Local President Supports Concessions Deal
Here is a statement from Jon Pepe, president of Local 391 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, whose union represents nearly 2,000 correctional employees in the northern...
View ArticleLabor Sources: Four Of 15 Unions Approve Concession Deal So Far, With 14 Of...
Labor union sources gave the following partial tally for the still-pending ratification voting on the tentative concessions deal between state employee union negotiators and the Malloy...
View ArticleDraft Jerry movement gathering steam
There's a move afoot to draft Jerry Labriola Jr. as state Republican Chairman and he said the groundswell of support has prompted him to strongly consider entering the race. Labriola, an attorney who...
View ArticleYankee Institute Blasts SEBAC As "Desperate And Paranoid'' - Denies Yankee Is...
Fergus Cullen, the executive director of the conservative Yankee Institute for Public Policy, is blasting the state employee unions and their coalition, known as SEBAC, for filing a written complaint...
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