An unelected state regulatory board in California is expected to issue a rule on Thursday banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. Connecticut is legally bound to follow. According to a law […]
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Connecticut ended 2021 with private-sector employment closer to 2020 levels than 2019 levels, a reminder that the state has a long way to go to recover its pandemic-related job losses. Private-sector employers added 600 jobs […]
Governor Lamont’s plan to send payments to roughly one in seven Connecticut households months before he stands for re-election is arguably the single greatest overreach by the executive branch since the beginning of the novel […]
Connecticut added 8,600 private-sector jobs in May, its biggest monthly gain since September, but the state has a long way to go to recoup its early pandemic losses. The state Labor Department figures released yesterday show Connecticut remains an estimated 93,300 jobs short of employment levels in February 2020, after […]
The U.S. Census Bureau population figures released last week raised eyebrows as Northeast states, including Connecticut, beat estimates. Census Bureau projections in recent years indicated Connecticut would end the decade with a small population loss, from 3.58 million to 3.56 million, after several years […]
The General Assembly’s joint Finance, Revenue and Bonding committee observed the 30th anniversary of Connecticut’s state income tax by imposing a new, separate income tax on the state’s top earners. The committee approved a 25-part measure which includes a new “consumption tax” on state residents with federal adjusted gross […]
The state Department of Economic and Community Development released industry specific sector guidelines for businesses that will be permitted to reopen on May 20, the date of the first of four phases of the reopening. […]
Sine Dine with a nearly empty Capitol and LOB: In a very different scenario from the usual pomp and fanfare of the midnight adjournment of legislative session, legislative leaders in the Senate and House of […]
COVID 19 pandemic update: At yesterday’s COVID-19 briefing, Governor Lamont had the two co-chairs of the Reopen CT Advisory Board available to answer questions and discuss the possible timelines for the reopening of non-essential businesses […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, this week it was no surprise that legislative leaders announced the 2020 legislative session is over, and will adjourn without any further action. The constitutionally mandated adjournment date is midnight, […]
