(Updated 3:40 p.m.)It was an odd political pairing. Two Republican lawmakers stood alongside union members Thursday arguing that its members should have the right to vote to switch unions.

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House Speaker Chris Donovan and Democratic lawmakers want to raise the minimum wage by $1.50 per hour over the next two years, then index it to rise with the cost of living.

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(Updated 5:15 p.m.) The legislature’s nonpartisan Office of Fiscal Analysis concluded Friday that the state employee pension concession deal will fall about $3.1 billion short of the projected $4.8 billion in savings over the next 20 years.

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(Updated 2:06 p.m.) Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Friday that he will be consolidating seven more state agencies bringing the total number of state agencies from 59 to 52. The administration said it doesn’t know how much the consolidations will save the state, but it’s in keeping with Malloy’s desire to make government more efficient.

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Four employees have been fired and four have opted to retire as a result of the state’s ongoing investigation into the post-Irene food stamp fraud, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy told his commissioners Tuesday.

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One day after Gov. Dannel P. Malloy promised to contribute more money to the woefully underfunded state employee pension system, Republican Sens. Andrew Roraback and Sen. Jason Welch made a controversial pitch to change how state employees negotiate their pensions.

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One of the three Wall Street credit rating agencies downgraded Connecticut’s bond rating last week citing its enormous unfunded pension liability, but Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said the plan he proposed Monday to improve the pension funding ratio had nothing to do with the bond rating.

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Gubernatorial aide Kip Bergstrom is ready to tell other states, “We will steal your scientists”—but he wants high-speed trains to help him do it.

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It’s been more than a month since Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced he would be looking to terminate and prosecute any state employee found guilty of post-Irene food stamp fraud, but as of this week only two of the 74 state employees investigated were terminated from their positions.

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Subpoenaed computer records indicate the controversial “Attachment H” to the state employee bargaining agreement was not finalized until after union members voted on it, according to a lawyer looking to call a union election.

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