DSS has no records related to project with Communist ties
By Zachary Janowski | Raising Hale
HARTFORD — The Department of Social Services has no records related to the New Haven People’s Center, despite being the agency responsible for $300,000 in proposed funding on the State Bond Commission’s agenda last week.
DSS responded to a Raising Hale request under the Freedom of Information Act by saying there are no [...]
Connecticut middle class pays marginal income tax rates of up to 10 percent
When average Connecticut taxpayers completed their returns for the deadline earlier this week they may have paid marginal rates higher than the state’s top tax bracket because of the way the state phases out certain deductions.
Read More →CT state ethics chief got a friend transferred to her agency
By Zachary Janowski | Raising Hale
Carol Carson is the executive director of the Office of State Ethics. Courtesy of OSE.
HARTFORD – The top ethics official in Connecticut state government got a friend transferred to her agency last year amid agency consolidation, a move she defends as “a business decision.”
Carol Carson, executive director of the Office of [...]
Read More →Bloated primary budget would employ more than 10 percent of Hartford Republicans
By Zachary Janowski | Raising Hale
HARTFORD – Hartford Republican Registrar of Voters Salvatore Bramante. Courtesy of the City of Hartford.
After accusing the Hartford City Council of failing to fund a Republican Presidential primary, evidence is growing that the city’s registrar of voters significantly over-budgeted for the vote.
Read More →It could happen here: Not-so-universal healthcare
Wouldn’t it be great for everyone, especially the poor, if Connecticut had universal healthcare? Probably not, as shown by a Montreal Gazette article on doctors abusing their private clinics.
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