While the governor and his fellow Democrats leading the House and Senate declared fiscal stability and pledged to continue trying to bolster municipal budgets, GOP legislative leaders cited projected deficits, a bond rating downgrade and cash flow problems as evidence of another impending fiscal crisis.
Read more"We run the risk of losing good teachers, of evaluation becoming a 'gotcha' practice, and of establishing a culture of fear, rather than collaboration in our schools," Phil Apruzzese, head of the state's largest teachers union, told the Education Committee.
Read moreThe word never will pass Chris Murphy's lips, at least not in public. But the congressman is doing everything he can to create the impression that his winning the Democratic nomination for Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman's seat is, well, inevitable.
It's a sense that Murphy's supporters encourage, even if Mitt Romney is finding that inevitability can be a fickle friend in 2012.
Read moreThe legislature's Republican minority outlined an agenda Friday that is a critique of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and a statement of principles for the 2012 election, not a plan designed to win favor with a Democratic governor and legislative majority.
Are speed traps about safety or revenue? It's been a question since the first cop wrote the first speeding ticket, and it was the challenge Thursday for advocates of a high-tech version of the old speed trap: automated red-light cameras.
It didn't help that they made their case standing in front of a backdrop provided by the National Coalition for Safer Roads, a nonprofit group financed by a vendor of red-light cameras.
Read moreCan the untamed spirit of Occupy Wall Street be channeled into electoral action? To find out, a prominent Connecticut political organizer, Jon Green, is leaving the state to take on a national role with an expanding Working Families Party, which helped elect a Democratic governor in 2010 and pass a first-in-the-nation paid sick days law in 2011.
Read moreThe Connecticut Supreme Court adopted a congressional redistricting plan Friday that makes minimal changes in the state's five U.S. House districts, and it ordered the legislature to pay the court-appointed special master who produced it a fee of $36,400.
Mitt, Newt, Rick and Ron were formally placed on the Connecticut Republican primary ballot today. Now, will any of them drop by before the polls open at 6 a.m. on April 24, a primary date that once seemed to consign Connecticut to political irrelevance this cycle?
Connecticut's 20-year history as a loyal supporter of Democratic presidential candidates -- the state gave Obama 61 percent of the vote in 2008 -- probably means that none of the presidential candidates will physically spend much time in the state between now and November, but they will look to the state for more money than ever to run their campaigns.
Read moreMeriden -- To begin the job of selling his proposed education reforms, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy visited a school Thursday in a district with a young, dynamic superintendent and the challenges of student poverty and limited resources.
Students stared wide-eyed as Malloy swept into classrooms at Benjamin Franklin Elementary, trailed by a retinue that included Superintendent Mark Benigni, Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman and the state commissioner of education, Stefan Pryor.
"This is an investment worthy of being made."
Gov. Malloy to charter school students who had been bused to the Capitol Tuesday evening to thank him for proposing an increase in funds for charters.
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1. United Technologies, $197,500
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