If President Obama has his way, the money that colleges receive from Washington will soon go to schools that can lower their tuition or at least hold it steady.
That may be a problem for Connecticut's 17 public colleges, which have almost doubled tuition and fees over the last decade and have already approved tuition increases for the next school year that exceed the rate of inflation.
Senate Minority Leader John McKinney talking to reporters Friday.
Pension concessions granted by unionized state employees last year will provide just over one-third of the $4.8 billion savings projected by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's administration, nonpartisan legislative fiscal analysts reported Friday.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced plans Friday for a second round of agency consolidations, including combining oversight for the University of Connecticut, its health center and the chief medical examiner's office. He will ask the legislature to merge 15 departments and agencies into seven.
Welcome back: Sen. Edith Prague is greeted by Rep. Michelle Cook on her first day back after a stroke.
Sen. Edith G. Prague, D-Columbia, returned to the State Capitol on Friday for the first time since her stroke on Christmas, showing no ill effects and pronouncing herself a candidate for re-election this fall.
"I am running for my seat. There's no question," Prague said after attending a press conference on home health care. "Too many important things are happening. I have to be here."
Connecticut ranks 16th among the states in the percentage of the work force involved in advanced manufacturing -- the use of cutting-edge technology in the manufacturing process. That's the kind of industry Obama wants to promote in his 'blueprint for an economy that's built to last.'
Panetta shown visiting Groton in November. (Pentagon photo)
Washington -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's vision for a "smaller, leaner" military could put the Naval Submarine Base New London on the chopping block and trim billions of dollars from Connecticut's defense industry.
Steven Simmons presents recommendations for better evaluating what the state gets for its education grants.
Business leaders offered a simple, if politically sensitive suggestion Thursday on how to pay for many of the things needed to improve education in the state: link the laundry list of grants that the state dishes out each year to performance.
Spurred by a new study showing the high costs of treating the mentally ill in prison, the Malloy administration is searching for ways to treat nonviolent offenders outside the prison system.
It costs Connecticut nearly double to both incarcerate and treat an offender with serious mental illnesses, compared with the price of treatment alone, according to a new academic study that analyzed social service and correction trends in 2006 and 2007.
Davos, Switzerland, site of the World Economic Forum
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy phoned home from snowy Davos, Switzerland, today to talk about his networking with corporate leaders at the World Economic Forum and to take issue with analysts who say he is now running a slight deficit. He also pronounced East Haven's embattled mayor a bonehead.
His wife, Betsi, peeks from the wings as Shays kicks off his Senate campaign with indirect jibes at Linda McMahon.
After a soft launch three months ago, Chris Shays raised the curtain on his U.S. Senate campaign Wednesday with pointed references to his unexpected victory 25 years ago over two wealthy businessmen in a Republican congressional primary.
He was not merely indulging in nostalgia. To win the GOP nomination in 2012, Shays will need to recapture the energy and mojo of his 1987 upset, showing he can replicate on a statewide level tactics that worked in the state's smallest and most densely settled congressional district.
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Members of the Connecticut Civil Rights Coalition at Wednesday's news conference.
The arrest of four East Haven police officers following a federal investigation has one Connecticut rights coalition pushing for a stronger racial profiling law in the state.
In a major shift, a diverse group of educators -- including teachers' unions, superintendent and school board groups -- have agreed that student performance, not longevity of service, should be the key yardstick to evaluating teachers.
"We've been waiting for this," said Diane Ullman, Simsbury's superintendent of schools and a member of the state panel responsible for creating the new evaluation process.
"The legislature has to regain control over the state's finances in the coming legislative session."
House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R- Norwalk
"The Republican assertions of the death of state pension savings are exaggerated and incorrect."
Senate President Pro Tem Donald E. Williams Jr., D-Brooklyn
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Food stamps in Connecticut
396,517 people in Connecticut received benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- formerly known as food stamps -- in October, the last month for which data is available.
That represents 11.2 percent of the state's population.
The number of residents receiving the federally funded nutrition assistance was up 7.8 percent from October 2010.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service
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