Malloy enlists disabled in budget fight — gets protest at his office –By: JULIA WERTH AND MARK PAZNIOKAS | July 18, 2017 — CT Mirror MARK PAZNIOKAS / CTMIRROR.ORG Elaine Kolb backs out of the governor’s outer office after her arrest for trespassing. Gary Gross…
State employees overwhelmingly ratify concessions By Keith M. Phaneuf and Mark Pazniokas via CTMirror Unionized state employees have voted overwhelmingly to ratify the concession deal negotiated with the administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, shifting the focus to a closely…
Subsidy Tracker Data Now Searchable Within More Than 10,000 Localities Subsidy Tracker, the nation’s only public and free database of economic development incentive awards, today introduced a new feature that allows the user to display summary data for more than…
Austerity is the wrong medicine for Connecticut –July 02. 2017 — Op-Ed– By: Bilal Dabir Sekou — More than nine years after the start of the 2007-09 Great Recession, the U.S. economy is not working for most Americans. The recovery…
No Revenue + Program Cuts for CT Budget Will Make You Cry – Here’s Why: People will die – Cuts to social service programs and medical services mean health care will be harder to get for: A. People with disabilities,…
Agents of Inequality: How Wealth Managers to the Super-Rich Undermine Society and What We Can Do About It An expert on their secretive world explains how these shadowy practitioners of financial trickery help facilitate widespread tax evasion—and undermine democratic government….
Connecticut’s millionaire migration myth Ellen Shemitz and Derek Thomas–Connecticut Voices for Children — in CT Mirror Viewpoints As the legislature toils to come to consensus on this year’s budget, we urge them to make decisions grounded in facts, research, and…
Nobel Laureate Urges Caution On Tax Cutting In Connecticut By HARRIET JONES • WNPR Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Shiller says Connecticut shouldn’t be cutting taxes in order to keep corporations in the state. Shiller, who is a professor of economics at…
GOP Tax Plans Would Emulate Failed Kansas Experiment Massive tax cuts Kansas enacted in 2012 were among the largest ever adopted by a state, and delivered lopsided benefits to the wealthy. Key architects of Kansas’ tax cuts, including Governor Sam…
Boughton pushes for state income tax repeal By Neil Vigdor–CTPost Photo: Carol Kaliff / Hearst Connecticut Media Mark Boughton is molding himself as the anti-Lowell Weicker Jr. The longtime Danbury mayor — trying to separate himself from a pack…