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January 6, 2012
While House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero, R-Norwalk, tried to link the cash flow problem to
an unstable state budget, Office of Policy and Management Secretary Benjamin
Barnes countered that it stems from decades of fiscal gimmicks that preceded
the current administration.
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January 5, 2012
With gas prices climbing again, a Meriden lawmaker and service stations want to
put the brakes on a volatile state fuel tax that accelerates prices hikes even
further. But with taxpayers still recovering from the $1.5 billion increase in
all state taxes last year, any plan to revisit taxes in the coming legislative
session could be doomed.
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January 4, 2012
The divisions of state government's new and loosely
unified watchdog agency found a common voice this week as they opposed
recommendations that would increase executive branch oversight of their
missions. Leaders of the right-to-know, clean elections and ethics agencies,
along with the child advocate, urged lawmakers in a new report not to enhance
the powers of the new executive administrator of the Office of Governmental
Accountability.
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December 31, 2011
"There's never been a time in my 30 years when
there have been so many wild cards on the table," economist Don Klepper-Smith said this week. "I can't recall a time
when we've had so many risks out there, both upside risks and downside
risks."
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December 29, 2011
After dropping by nearly 4 percent in 2011,
Connecticut's prison population is on pace to dip below 17,000 inmates in early
January after hitting an 11-year-low earlier this month, according to the
state's Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division.
And former state Rep. Michael P. Lawlor, who has led the division for the past year, said
Thursday that the inmate ranks should decline at a similar pace in 2012 as Gov.
Dannel P. Malloy's administration looks to close a
third prison in two years.
December 22, 2011
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Holiday
shoppers aren't the only ones taking a wary look at their credit card balances
these days. State government recently undertook its own annual debt review,
looking from several perspectives, but coming to the same conclusion each time:
Connecticut
remains one of the most indebted states in the nation.
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