Carol Platt Liebau, Yankee Institute’s president, was published in the Connecticut Post October 29. “Gov. Ned Lamont has a unique strategy for reducing income inequality, at least on Connecticut’s roads: He’s going to stop poor […]
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In an op-ed for The Connecticut Post entitled “The simple math of addressing climate change,” Rep. Christine Palm, D-Chester, wrote that the Transportation and Climate Initiative program, which would require fuel wholesalers to purchase emission […]
The Newtown Republican Town Committee has pulled three Republican board of education candidates from participating in a scheduled candidate event with their fellow Democrat candidates due to public hostility both online and in town. “Here […]
Rep. Michael DiMassa, D-West Haven, resigned from the General Assembly Monday following his arrest on federal wire fraud charges after he allegedly bilked the City of West Haven of more than $636,000 in federal COVID-19 […]
If you’ve renewed your vehicle registration lately you may have noticed two separate fees on your bill: The Clean Air Act fee and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction fee. Together, they add an additional $15 to […]
Private-sector employment in Connecticut topped 1.38 million in August, new data show, bringing employment just above January 2011 levels. The figures, released by the state Labor Department, show Connecticut added 6,200 private jobs in August […]
The president of the Hartford Federation of Special School Police officers continued to show up on school grounds after being barred from school property pending an investigation, according to an arbitration decision released by the […]
The number of Connecticut residents receiving Medicaid benefits has risen by 143,295 since January of 2020, nearing one million people, according to monthly Medicaid figures from the Department of Social Services. As of September – […]
The Connecticut Lottery Corporation’s Board of Directors indicated they will be giving raises to the quasi-public agency’s managers in an effort to match pay increases for state employee managers from 2011 to 2021, according to […]
HARTFORD (October 15, 2021) — “Yankee Institute welcomes President Biden to our beautiful state. He’d be wise to remember that Connecticut has been a laboratory for many of the same misguided policies being promoted in the […]
