Tempers flared at the end of the this year’s legislative session over a bill that would have made it easier for a private, for-profit hospital company to purchase physician practices from a nonprofit hospital that it planned to take over.

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Tags: Labor and Public Employees Committee, Cathy Osten, Peter Tercyak, Waterbury Hospital, ECHN, Bristol, Trip Pilgrim, Tenet, Vanguard, dh

Senate Republican leader John McKinney endorsed Mark Greenberg’s congressional bid Monday, but Greenberg didn’t return the favor.

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Tags: Mark Greenberg, John McKinney, Noujaim Tool, Waterbury, William A. Petit, 5th District, Elizabeth Esty, dh

Friday was a busy day at the state Department of Consumer Protection — it was the final day to submit applications to become a licensed medical marijuana grower or seller in Connecticut. Of the 42 submitted applications, 39 arrived on Friday, including 16 for grower licenses and 26 to open a dispensary.

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Tags: medical marijuana, Thomas Macre, Three-C, Waterbury, Neil O'Leary, growers, dh

Whether it’s in Bridgeport, Bristol, or Brooklyn, budget cuts and teacher layoffs are an unwelcome prospect but sometimes an unavoidable reality. The manner in which school districts choose which teachers to let go is often decided long in advance, during collective bargaining negotiations.

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Tags: Jennifer Alexander, ConnCAN, education, teacher contracts, unions, school district, dh

He waited 215 years for a proper burial, but a slave named Mr. Fortune finally got the respect he deserved Thursday when his bones were laid in repose at the state Capitol.

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Tags: Fortune, Steven Mullins, Waterbury, slave, dh

The state Bond Commission approved $537 million in borrowing to finance a series of road construction and maintenance projects, including repaving 250 miles of state highway.

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Tags: transportation, Waterbury, I-84, I-95, bridges, James Redeker, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, dh

Not long after Dannel Malloy was sworn in as Connecticut’s 88th governor two-and-a-half years ago, he became extraordinarily active on the healthcare front. Perhaps just as President George H.W. Bush wanted to be “the education president,” so too did Malloy want to be the healthcare governor?

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Tags: Malloy, hospitals, labor, sean williams, waterbury, terry cowgill, dh

When push came to shove Gov. Dannel P. Malloy sided with labor unions when he vetoed a bill Thursday that would have made it easier for Vanguard, a for-profit company, to acquire Waterbury Hospital.

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Tags: veto message, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Vanguard, unions, SEIU, AFSCME, labor, Waterbury, dh

The Federal Aviation Administration has decided to keep open 149 small airport control towers, including six in Connecticut, but tower operators and lawmakers are concerned about what will happen at the end of the fiscal year.

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When the next session of the General Assembly opens tomorrow there will be more Hispanic state legislators than at any other moment in Connecticut’s history, Secretary of the State Denise Merrill said Tuesday.

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Tags: connecticut, Latinos, election, Art Linares, Andres Ayala, Hilda Santiago, Angel Arce, Victor Cuevas, Merrill, Blumenthal, Democrats, Republicans