Federal health officials have proposed that all health plans selling insurance on the new online marketplaces must allow for easy payment options for households without bank accounts or credit cards.
Hartford -- Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was an uninvited guest Monday at the luncheon Texas Gov. Rick Perry hosted for Connecticut business executives who might be interested in relocating their companies to the Lone Star State.
Washington –- Connecticut’s congressional delegation wants to find a way to obtain federal dollars to replace Sandy Hook Elementary School with a new facility. But with the ban on earmarks -- funding for politicians' pet projects -- that will be tough.
So members of the delegation are coming up with creative ways to try to circumvent the ban.
To Joseph Lieberman, the former independent Connecticut senator and former chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, outrage over the recent disclosures of secret government data gathering is overblown. The National Security Agency is simply collecting “metadata,” phone numbers and “connections between phone numbers.”
“I think people will feel better about these programs if they know more about them,” Lieberman said.
Newtown families and their allies have become a lobbying force on Capitol Hill, calling for tougher gun laws. But despite their efforts this week to mark the six-month anniversary, not one vote in Congress was reversed.
Tutoring help at some community colleges will be nearly eliminated. Libraries will be closed on weekends at some schools. Class sizes will increase. Security will be cut or eliminated at some of the campuses, and art programs will be scaled back.
These are just some of the cuts college officials say will have to be made for the fiscal year starting July 1 at the state's 12 community colleges if the Board of Regents approves its proposed budget next week.
For each of the past six years, the Connecticut Mission of Mercy has drawn thousands of patients to its annual two-day free dental clinic. Each clinic has been held in a different part of the state, and for the past couple of years, organizers have been hoping to hold one in Hartford. But clinic organizers are not confident it will happen anytime soon, because they say they haven’t been able to find a venue in Hartford they can afford.
The State Bond Commission will approve funding next week to begin the task of replacing the Newtown elementary school marred by December’s tragic shooting of 20 children and six staff members.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who chairs the bond commission, announced Friday that the commission would approve the release of $750,000 to begin design and plan work on a new Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Newtown -- On the six-month anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the June 14 edition of the Newtown Bee reflects what many in the town call “the new normal” -- a community transformed by loss, but also resilient, and committed to evolving.
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On July 1 motorists will experience one of the largest gasoline tax increases in Connecticut history.
Prices are estimated to rise nearly 4 cents per gallon.
Hartford will receive the most state aid next fiscal year -- some $257 million -- and Lyme the least, a little more than $300,000.
How did your city or town make out in aid to education and other grants? Was it one of the nine municipalities that will be flat-funded for the next two years?
'Connecticut's budget deficit, and why you should be worried' by Mirror budget reporter Keith Phaneuf
Part One: "Promises, gimmicks and a historic shortfall"
Part Two: "Major concessions deal undermined by bad guesses, secrecy
Part Three: Serious deficit awaits Malloy -- or his successor -- after 2014
Read how Gov. Malloy reacted to our series.
Listen to budget reporter Keith Phaneuf talk about the budget in this special podcast.