Deputy Director Heath W. Fahle highlights the new tools available to residents to determine whether moving to a new state is a good idea in his column for CT News Junkie this week: One can’t help but wonder why the Governor’s spirit of competition doesn’t extend to other issues. For ...
by Ryan Murphy Connecticut needs as many entrepreneurs as it can get. But for many would-be small businesspeople, Connecticut’s stringent occupational licensure laws stand in the way. Connecticut licenses 241 occupations, from hairdressers to glaziers. Often sold in the name of public safety, more often licensure laws serve as artificial ...
by Fergus Cullen This article originally ran in the Waterbury Republican-American on Sunday, July 5, 2009. Will Rogers might have said, “Half of all money spent by government is wasted. The government just needs to hire a few more bureaucrats to figure out which half.” Unfortunately, less than half of ...