2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (713+ words) Lamont’s first ad naming Fazio targets his vote against protections for schools and churches from immigration enforcement. Gov. Ned Lamont linked Republican challenger Ryan Fazio to President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented migrants with an ad featuring a Black minister…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (960+ words) Special education programs face a funding crisis this year that cannot be solved unless Connecticut reforms controversial state budget caps that have diverted billions of dollars to pay down pension debt, Comptroller Sean Scanlon said Tuesday. The state’s chief fiscal…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (626+ words) Gov. Ned Lamont and his Republican challenger, state Sen. Ryan Fazio of Greenwich, practiced campaign talking points on electric costs Tuesday while seated together at a meeting of the state Bond Commission and then in back-to-back press conferences in the…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (832+ words) U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes says Democrats must deliver on labor promises if they regain the House. A fiery U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-5th District, was introduced by the president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO at a Labor Day kickoff breakfast Friday as “the future…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (308+ words) CT has transferred $1.3B to its pension funds, bringing supplemental contributions over the past seven years above $11B. The state has deposited $1.3 billion in excess revenue into its two major pension funds, marking the seventh consecutive year it has made supplemental contributions…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (373+ words) Connecticut has among the highest rates of union membership in the nation. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Connecticut and Rhode Island tied for the fifth-highest percentage of unionized workers last year — behind only New York, Washington,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1158+ words) Lawsuits accuse Stanley Black & Decker and other companies of keeping tariff refunds after raising prices to offset the costs. A wave of lawsuits is testing whether companies that raised prices to offset tariffs can keep the refunds they later received…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (488+ words) Despite the claim made by former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin’s congressional campaign that he had “straightened out” the city, his successor, Arunan Arulampalam, has found himself with a lot more straightening out to do. Hartford’s financial condition remains dire even…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (562+ words) Connecticut’s minimum wage will rise from $16.94 to $17.48 an hour on Jan. 1. The increase will occur without lawmakers voting on it, debating its economic consequences or examining whether previous increases improved the financial condition of low-income families. That’s because a 2019 state…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (272+ words) V20 Group plans 30 residences on the Westport site, with construction expected to take 16 to 18 months. A Darien-based developer has acquired a former Connecticut Humane Society property in Westport that has zoning approval for a 30-unit residential development. V20 Group said it acquired…...