Top State Prosecutor Kevin Kane Is Reappointed
Chief State's Attorney Kevin T. Kane was appointed Thursday to a second, five-year term as Connecticut's top state prosecutor. The appointment was made by the state Criminal Justice Commission, which...
View Article2Q U.S. Senate campaign finance forms show Chris Murphy is still on top
Lots of high school and college students have trouble coming up with money for pizza, let alone a contribution to a political campaign. But the three children of Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Susan...
View ArticleDemocrats Refuse To Override Any Of Malloy's Vetoes; GOP Looking For Override...
SOUTH WINDSOR - With a 145-1 vote in the House and 36-0 in the Senate, many would think the legislature would override Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's veto for economic development at Oxford Airport. But it...
View ArticleMalloy Administration Still Talking With SEBAC; Hoping To Reach Agreement...
HARTFORD - With state employees getting closer to leaving their jobs, negotiators for the unions and the Malloy administration were racing to try to reach an agreement as early as Friday. The two sides...
View ArticleNo Deal Yet Between SEBAC And Malloy Administration
State employees were still waiting early Friday afternoon to hear about a potential deal between the SEBAC unions and the Malloy administration. The talks ended Thursday night in Hartford without a...
View ArticleTown Of Lyme Files Court Action Seeking Injunction To Block Shutdown Of Two...
The town of Lyme filed court papers Friday to block Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's plan to shut down two historic ferries across the Connecticut River. The court filing seeks to block the planned closure of...
View ArticleMalloy Reaches Deal With Unions In Talks That Took Longer Than Malloy...
After marathon, all-day talks, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy reached a deal Friday night with the state employee unions that guarantees four years of no layoffs and averts deep budget cuts in many agencies....
View ArticleUnion expects Malloy to rescind pink slips; vote on "clarified agreement" not...
The coalition representing unionized state employees said today it expects Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to rescind layoff notices now that both sides have agreed to "clarify" a concession agreement designed...
View ArticleMalloy, legislative leaders will work together on Oxford Airport economic...
Two weeks after vetoing a bill that would have extended tax exemptions and credits for businesses in the vicinity of Oxford Airport, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced that he intends to work with...
View ArticleMalloy Rates SEBAC Approval Chances at 50-50; Most Layoffs Would Not Happen...
With the first agreement rejected by the rank-and-file union members, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy predicted Monday that there is only an even chance of the latest savings and concession deal being approved....
View ArticleSEBAC outlines schedule for upcoming votes; process could take three weeks...
While most unionized state workers will vote on a new concession agreement within the next three weeks, some rank-and-file members may not have an opportunity to vote at all. A spokesman for the State...
View ArticleSEBAC Voting At Height Of August Vacation Season; Casting Ballots On Revised...
The state employee unions will be voting at essentially the height of the summer vacation season over the next three week on the revised concessions deal with Gov. Dannel P. Malloy - prompting concerns...
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Bob Conrad, Legendary Political Columnist, Dies At 91
Robert M. Conrad, a lifelong newspaperman and one of Connecticut's most influential political journalists from the 1960s through the 1980s, died Monday at Sheriden Woods Health Care Center in his...
View ArticleNew Haven-based journalist will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Clare Morgana Gillis, an international journalist with Connecticut roots who spent 44 days in captivity in Libya this spring, is expected to testify this morning at a Senate hearing on treaty that...
View ArticleBysiewicz gets a boost from EMILY's List
The U.S. Senate campaign of Susan Bysiewicz is getting a big boost from EMILY's List, one of the nation's largest political action committees. The Democratic former Secretary of the State is getting...
View ArticleLayoff Notices Top 3,000 As SEBAC Waits To Vote On Deal; 1,157 New Notices To...
As the state employee unions wait to vote on a new deal, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Wednesday that he has now issued more than 3,000 layoff notices in more than 30 departments and agencies. The...
View ArticleHimes to USPS: Don't touch our post offices
U.S. Rep. Jim Himes is making a plea to preserve several post offices in his district slated for potential closure. Himes, a Democrat from the 4th District, wrote to the U.S. Postal Services asking...
View ArticleVo-Tech athletes rally at the Capitol
Students from the state's 16 vocational-technical high schools are staging a protest at the Capitol today. The students are upset that sports programs at the schools could be eliminated. Gov. Dannel P....
View ArticleNRSC calls on Murphy to return Wu campaign cash
It's become a scandal-related ritual: A member of Congress gets into a moral or ethical jam and researchers for the opposing political party comb through contribution lists to see who the member gave...
View ArticleJepsen: "We have found no evidence that the state e-mail system was...
An investigation into allegations that a conservative think-tank hacked into the state email system to spread false information about a proposed agreement between Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the state...
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