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Malloy extends deadlines at DMV to offset long customer lines
With the Department of Motor Vehicles
expected to continue struggling with long lines for a few more weeks because of
a computer overhaul, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced
Monday he would extend deadlines for license and vehicle registration renewals
until Oct. 10. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles
Malloy:
CT made pitch to keep GE
Gov. Dannel P.
Malloy confirmed Monday that he and others in his administration have met with
General Electric and proposed some specific assistance to keep its headquarters
in Fairfield,
but he gave no details about his pitch. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
Connecticut state budget, data
processing tax, General
Electric
State Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo’s office announced Thursday that a huge, decades-old
backlog in finalizing state pensions should finally be alleviated over the next
18 months. And Lembo said a new automated system also
would make it easier for state workers to research their future benefits. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Comptroller Kevin P. Lembo,
pension,
state employees retirement system
Malloy administration mum on possible aid to keep GE in state
Gov. Dannel P.
Malloy’s administration on Thursday would neither confirm nor deny a media
report that it was preparing an aggressive package of economic assistance to
keep General Electric from moving its headquarters out of state. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
Connecticut state budget, economic
development, GE, General
Electric
CT retirement panel says ‘no’ again in municipal pension case
A state retirement panel dashed the hopes
Thursday of six legislators who contend that any retired municipal workers
should be allowed to collect a pension and be re-employed by another Connecticut
municipality. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
Marilynn
Cruz-Aponte, pensions,
State Employees Retirement Commission
Connecticut gained 4,100 jobs in July as
the unemployment rate fell to a seven-year low of 5.4 percent, marking three
consecutive months of job growth that have brought the state’s unemployment
rate close to the U.S. average of 5.3 percent. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Connecticut Business and Industry Association,
Connecticut Department of Labor, Connecticut unemployment rate, Unemployment
Funding woes threatened CT labor department jobs a year ago
Though Gov. Dannel
P. Malloy said last month that a projected shortfall in federal funds was
forcing his administration to lay off almost 100 Labor Department workers, a
deficit topping $14 million for labor personnel was identified nearly one year
ago. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
AFSCME
Council 4, state Department of Labor, Unemployment
Six legislators hoping to ask a state
retirement panel – in person – to effectively rewrite municipal retirement
rules in a way Gov. Dannel P. Malloy prevented last
month – will have to settle for writing a letter. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
Municipal Employees Retirement System, pensions,
State Employees Retirement Commission
Even transportation panel’s homework sets off a partisan
furor
The group studying how to fund a 30-year
transportation improvement program in Connecticut
knows there are few options – if any – that won’t spark controversy. But the
state’s Transportation Finance Panel watched that challenge expand
significantly after its research became the focal point of an intensifying
partisan battle among state legislative leaders. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
gasoline
tax, mileage
tax, tolls,
Transportation Finance Panel
The top Republican in the state Senate
charged Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and state employee
unions Friday with making an end run around the legislature to resolve a
disability pension controversy that the state auditors said may have cost Connecticut millions of
dollars in improper payments. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
disability
pensions, SEBAC
State, unions agree on more lenient disability-pension
standard
A new agreement that restores a more
lenient standard for awarding state disability pensions will take effect
immediately and won't be presented to the General Assembly for consideration in
2016, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration
confirmed Thursday. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
auditors of public accounts, disability
pensions, State Employees Retirement Commission
State gives pink slips to 95 labor department workers
Gov. Dannel P.
Malloy’s administration announced early Wednesday it has given layoff notices
to 95 Department of Labor employees whose positions no longer are supported by
federal funding. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
AFSCME, AFSCME
Council 4, CT
labor department, layoffs
New CT budget gets mixed reviews from Wall Street
While praising Gov. Dannel
P. Malloy and the legislature for adopting a two-year plan that is balanced and
relies on few one-time revenues, the agencies also noted that Connecticut continues to struggle with
“tepid” revenue growth and a small budget reserve that leaves the state
vulnerable to “future fiscal shocks." Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
Connecticut state budget, Fitch, Kroll,
Moody's,
Standard
& Poor's, Wall
Street
Malloy administration approved costly financing for UConn outpatient facility
Gov. Dannel P.
Malloy’s administration approved the controversial financing method for a University of Connecticut Health Center project that
auditors say cost the state $77 million in “unnecessary” interest. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Politics,
John
C. Geragosian, Robert
M. Ward, state auditors of public accounts, The
Jackson Laboratory, UConn, University of Connecticut
CT lawmakers push back on pharmaceutical issue in TPP
WASHINGTON – As
negotiators for a massive Pacific Rim trade pact meet in Maui for a final round
of talks, Connecticut lawmakers are pressing
for changes they say will keep the price of key medicines affordable for
patients who need them overseas and in the United States. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Budget/Economy,
Health
Care, Politics,
Washington,
AARP, biosimilars, Doctors Without Borders, fast track
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