An Act Concerning Police Accountability, passed during special session in July, overruled a provision in the Connecticut State Police union contract that exempted certain personnel records from the state’s Freedom of Information laws, but state police are not the only state employees shielded from records disclosure. Connecticut state university professors ...
As his term concludes, it’s entirely predictable that Governor Malloy would seek to shape his legacy for the history books. But the “spin” in his recent op/ed for the Hartford Courant is so dizzyingly incomplete and inaccurate in important respects that it warrants a response.
HARTFORD – The Hartford Courant featured the Yankee Institute on the front page this morning, profiling our work and the outlandish allegations made against us by state labor leaders: “Founded in 1984, the think tank has long embraced a philosophy that government should be small, taxes should be low, and ...
HARTFORD – Newly-elected Yankee Institute Board Member Robert R. “Rob” Simmons is serving as a special guest columnist with the Hartford Courant each Sunday until Election Day 2010. The Vietnam veteran, former member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, and three-term Congressman will be joined with former gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont ...