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Malloy’s 2012 Budget Address: ‘Building An Economic Revival’

2012-02-08T17:07:50Z

Read Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s second budget address:

Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Senator McKinney, Representative Cafero, my fellow state officials, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly, honored members of the Judiciary, members of the clergy, honored guests, and all the citizens of our great state who are watching or listening today, thank you. Thank you for the honor of inviting me into the people’s House to address you.

New Spending To Come From Projected Surplus

2012-02-08T16:23:13Z

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s fiscal year 2013 budget will increase spending by $329 million, or 1.6 percent over last year bringing the total budget adjustment to $20.73 billion. The additional spending will come from the projected $438.5 million surplus.

OP-ED | Malloy’s State of the State Address: What He Might Say

2012-02-08T12:21:32Z

Today, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will deliver his annual State of the State Address to the Connecticut General Assembly. After one full year at the helm of the ship of state, observers far and wide will carefully consider his speech for its meaning and what it portends for the next year in the Nutmeg State. Only the real authors of the speech and its deliverer have advance knowledge of what it will say, but here’s a suggestion for what he might say:

UConn Students Rally Against Rape

2012-02-08T05:43:59Z

University of Connecticut students rallied outside the Student Union Monday afternoon to protest what they felt was an offensive skit produced by campus television station UCTV.

Malloy To Pour Additional $50M Into ECS Formula

2012-02-08T05:32:08Z

(Updated 9 a.m.) Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced earlier this year that he would hold municipalities harmless and at the same time he would “bend” the Education Cost Sharing formula. Malloy declined to say exactly how he planned to do that Tuesday, but Wednesday morning his office released a statement saying that he plans to pump $50 million in new money into the formula, concentrating the largest share on the lowest-performing districts.

Education Session Starts Tomorrow, But Budget Questions Remain

2012-02-07T22:55:56Z

As he prepares his second budget address, this one focused on education reform, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy took a moment Tuesday to put things into perspective.

State Crime Lab Gets Re-Accredited

2012-02-07T21:49:27Z

The American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors Laboratory Accreditation Board restored the state’s crime lab accreditation Tuesday, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced in a statement.

Caligiuri Endorses Roraback

2012-02-07T20:13:58Z

Former state Sen. Sam Caligiuri said Sen. Andrew Roraback’s ability to work with lawmakers of all ideologies make him the strongest candidate for the 5th Congressional district and an answer to partisan gridlock in Congress.

Poll: Malloy’s Approval Improves, Murphy Leads & Abolish Tenure

2012-02-07T15:58:38Z

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, who says he doesn’t pay much attention to polls, saw his approval numbers improve to 51 percent in a poll released Tuesday by the conservative Yankee Institute for Public Policy.

Education Group Calls State Subpoena of Schools ‘Harassment’

2012-02-07T10:30:03Z

A state subpoena for records from 10 schools districts—all named as plaintiffs in the landmark school funding lawsuit—couldn’t have come at a worse time, one school superintendent said Monday.

Malloy Looks To Transform Low Performing Schools

2012-02-07T01:50:22Z

Since announcing 2012 would be the year for education reform Gov. Dannel P. Malloy set his sights on the state’s lowest performing school districts. That’s where he wants to focus the state’s resources.

Task Force to Address Needs of Coastal Communities

2012-02-06T22:00:59Z

House Speaker Chris Donovan announced Monday the creation of a task force to examine how shoreline communities can be better prepared for incidents like Tropical Storm Irene.

Fate of National Popular Vote Bill Uncertain

2012-02-06T20:32:31Z

In five minutes Monday, the Government Administration and Elections Committee voted to raise 35 concepts this session. A bill to join the National Popular Vote Compact was not among them.

Malloy To Give Charter Schools A Boost

2012-02-06T16:33:10Z

(Updated 6:10 p.m.) As part of his education focused budget address, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will propose increasing charter, magnet, and vocational school funding.

OP-ED | The Cost of Excluding Consumers

2012-02-06T13:47:06Z

The creation of health insurance Exchanges – marketplaces where consumers will be able to shop for and buy health insurance – is a cornerstone of the health reform law. But when the members of the Health Insurance Exchange Board were announced, consumer advocates expressed dismay for two reasons: first, no consumer advocates were appointed, so slots that, by law, were supposed to go, for example, to someone with experience in dealing with barriers to individual coverage, instead went to people who have no such experience; and second, some of the appointees to the Board have very strong ties to the insurance industry, which certainly has a strong self-interest in many of the decisions the Exchange Board is going to have to make.