March 15, 2012
Committee Knocks A Quarter Off Donovan’s Minimum Wage Proposal
by Christine Stuart | March 15, 2012 4:29pm
Lawmakers on the Labor and Public Employees Committee debated whether now was the right time to be increasing the minimum wage before passing a bill that increases it by 50 cents in each of the next two years.
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Tags: minimumwage, Democrat, Republicans, wages, restaurants, increase, Edith Prague
March 6, 2012
Children’s Committee Bill Would Expand Daycare Program
by Hugh McQuaid | March 6, 2012 5:00pm
Less than three months after Care4Kids daycare workers voted to unionize, the Children’s Committee held a public hearing Tuesday on a bill that would eventually increase their pay and expand access to the program.
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Tags: seiu 2001, day care workers, Malloy, executive order, union, early childhood education
February 29, 2012
TicketNetwork Withdraws From ‘First Five’ Program
by Christine Stuart | February 29, 2012 10:11am
(Updated 11:40 a.m.) One day after its chief executive officer took a leave of absence following his arrest, the online ticket exchange company announced it was withdrawing from the state’s ‘First Five’ program.
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Tags: ticketnetwork, arrest, Donald Vaccaro, first five, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy
February 28, 2012
Closing Time? Minimum Wage Proposal Still Worries Restaurant Owners
by Christine Stuart | February 28, 2012 10:55pm
Restaurant owners say their profit margins are smaller than what many lawmakers believe. So when they heard about the bill calling for an increase in both the minimum wage and the tip credit, many restaurant owners started doing the math. They figure that the bill will cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars per year and possibly force some to close their doors.
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Tags: minimum wage, tip credit, Phil Barnett, restaurants, labor, Chris Donovan
Troopers Fight To Maintain Minimum Staffing
by Joseph Adinolfi | February 28, 2012 6:41pm
For 25 years, the state of Connecticut did not require a minimum number of state troopers.
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Tags: state police trooper, minimum staffing, Col. Daniel Stebbins, John McKinney
TicketNetwork CEO Takes Leave of Absence
by Christine Stuart | February 28, 2012 5:58pm
TicketNetwork’s CEO Donald J. Vaccaro announced that he’s taking a leave of absence Tuesday, just hours after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said the state was examining the loan deal it planned to give the company. The news comes one day after Vaccaro’s arrest at an Oscar party.
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Tags: ticketnetwork, connecticut, Malloy, first five, economic development, vaccaro
Malloy: Connecticut Residents ‘Badly Punished’ By Current Liquor Laws
by Hugh McQuaid | February 28, 2012 4:33pm
As lawmakers began hearing what would be hours of testimony on Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s liquor reform package, the governor himself talked about how “ghastly” and “unfair” the current system is to consumers.
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Tags: liquor, sunday sales, alcohol, public hearing
Package Store Lobbyist Offers His Own Compromise; Hundreds Rally To End Ban On Sunday Sales
by Hugh McQuaid | February 28, 2012 11:31am
After years of fighting the legalization of Sunday alcohol sales, the Connecticut Package Store Association abandoned the fight Tuesday to focus on other liquor law changes which favor supermarkets and big box stores. But will it be too little, too late?
Tags: liquor, sunday sales, alcohol, public hearing
February 21, 2012
OP-ED | Malloy Is Combative, Confident, And Closely Attuned To The World
by CTNJ Editorial Board | February 21, 2012 6:28am
It was more than three years ago that CTNewsJunkie.com started paying a diverse group of columnists to contribute their opinions to the site. The addition of commentary to an already steady stream of hard news from the Capitol helped the site grow its community of readers, and eventually led to the next logical leap last week when an editorial board was formed.
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Tags: ctnewsjunkie editorial board, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Heath W. Fahle, Melissa Ozols, Sarah Darer Littman, Susan Bigelow, Terry Cowgill
February 17, 2012
Report: Investments May Help Turn CT Economy Around
by Christine Stuart | February 17, 2012 11:05am
Connecticut’s post-recession economic recovery generally lags behind that of the national economy, but a new report from the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis concluded that with the large capital investments the state is making there‘s a chance it will continue to outperform the national economy.
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