January 24, 2012
90 Employees Under Investigation, 4 Fired, & 4 Retired
by Christine Stuart | January 24, 2012 10:46pm
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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Tags: D-SNAP, food stamps, federal aid, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, Rich Rochlin, Andrew McDonald
January 23, 2012
Malloy Seeks Changes To State Employee Pension Fund
by Christine Stuart and Hugh McQuaid | January 23, 2012 4:23pm
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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Tags: Malloy, Pension obligations, state employees, sebac agreement, Cafero
January 20, 2012
Conflicting Laws Stifle Release of Names In D-SNAP Case
by Christine Stuart | January 20, 2012 5:29am
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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Tags: Andrew McDonald, Rich Rochlin, food stamps, D-SNAP, Malloy, state employees
January 19, 2012
Malloy Applauded For Diversity of Judicial Nominations
by Christine Stuart | January 19, 2012 4:21pm
A women’s group who has been critical of the “lack of diversity” in Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration applauded the diversity of the six lawyers he nominated to the Superior Court bench Thursday.
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Tags: judicial nominations, Diversity, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, court, Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
January 18, 2012
Outside Union Optimistic About Labor Petition
by Hugh McQuaid | January 18, 2012 11:30am
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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Tags: attachment H, sebac agreement, UPSEU, board of labor relations, barbara resnick, Hugh McQuaid
January 17, 2012
Wesleyan Student Files SEEC Complaint On Eve of Appointment
by Joseph Adinolfi | January 17, 2012 5:49pm
A Wesleyan student filed a complaint with the State Elections Enforcement Commission Tuesday alleging that former Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano ran a campaign that “tried to deter Wesleyan students from the polls.”
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Tags: Sebastian Giuliano, SEEC, complaint, Wesleyan, students, Joseph Adinolfi
Judge Says State Trooper Staffing Mandate Should Be Enforced
by Hugh McQuaid | January 17, 2012 12:30pm
A Superior Court judge may have denied their initial attempt to stop Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration from laying off 56 state troopers, but state troopers prevailed in their argument that the 1,248 minimum staffing level is something the administration should be enforcing.
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Tags: troopers, police, staffing, state police, Andrew McDonald, Hugh McQuaid
January 16, 2012
2012 Session Will Bring Another Death Penalty Debate
by Hugh McQuaid | January 16, 2012 5:30am
With a new Democratic governor, 2011 seemed like the year the legislature would repeal Connecticut’s death penalty, until the sole survivor of a triple homicide appealed to lawmakers to wait. On Thursday a state senator said the wait may be over.
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Tags: death penalty, Meyer, prague, cafero, Holder-Winfield, Petit, Hugh McQuaid
January 12, 2012
Dems Line Up In Support Of Health Care Reform Act
by Hugh McQuaid | January 12, 2012 6:29pm
Democratic lawmakers announced Thursday that 43 state legislators had signed on to an amicus brief supporting the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, which the U.S. Supreme will consider in March.
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Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care, Affordable Care Act, Ritter, donovan, cafero, Supreme Court, Hugh McQuaid
Lawyer Sues State For ‘Scare Tactics’
by CTNewsjunkie Staff | January 12, 2012 11:26am
The lawyer representing 17 of the 44 state employees accused of fraud for obtaining food stamp benefits, sued the state Thursday saying the governor’s administration unconstitutionally forbid Department of Social Services workers from speaking to him.
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