The Connecticut Group

06/03/2019

https://www.courant.com/community/hartford/hc-news-hartford-nonprofits-property-taxes-20190601-tq6syltyizfphae7kjjhthnhea-story.html

Budget season may be ending, but one city leader decided now is the time to revive the age-old idea of taxing Hartford’s nonprofits, including his own employer.

06/03/2019

The House has begun debate on the State Budget. Tune into http://ct-n.com/CTNplayer.asp?livestream=0 … for a live stream of the debate.

06/03/2019

https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-pol-sacred-heart-courant-poll-lamont-20190531-c7t2avbvwnfttoef6i57uf4xi4-story.html?fbclid=IwAR0yw06aryAdll8ADO1jlEHMmPt5rV7OcnkI0mEJjjVb0o-Oi4sksmUO4w8

Gov. Ned Lamont is struggling to gain traction for his economic recovery plan for Connecticut, with a new Hartford Courant/Sacred Heart University poll showing the first-term Democrat hamstrung by his support for electronic highway tolls and his resistance to raising taxes on the wealthy.

06/03/2019

https://ctmirror.org/2019/06/02/lawmakers-hope-to-adopt-budget-today-that-avoids-another-income-tax-hike/

Legislators will open the session’s final week expected to pass a new state budget that keeps income tax rates flat and expands the sales tax.

05/28/2019

https://ctmirror.org/2019/05/23/progressive-democrats-up-pressure-on-lamont-to-tax-the-rich/

More than half of House of Representatives’ Democratic majority want a tax hike on the rich in the next budget.

05/28/2019

The proposed Connecticut Option

The top executives of six health care and health insurance companies have asked Gov. Ned Lamont to halt action on legislation proposing subsidized health care in Connecticut until more details are available.

05/28/2019

https://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/lamont-signs-15-min-wage-bill

Flanked by advocates and progressive Democrats, Gov. Ned Lamont signed a bill Tuesday increasing Connecticut’s hourly minimum wage to $15 over the next four-and-a-half years. The new law will raise the state’s minimum hourly wage 90 cents to $11 on Oct. 1; to $12 on Sept. 1, 2020; to $13 on Aug....

05/13/2019

“It's not that they're too big to fail. It's that they're just too big to care,” says Attorney General William Tong of some of the major generic drug manufacturers, accusing them of price fixing. The companies deny the allegations.

More than 40 states say the biggest drug makers engaged in "industry-wide conspiracy" to fix prices of generic drugs

05/06/2019

A Connecticut State Supreme Court case raises an important legal question.

Is the embryo ordinary property, “special marital property,” or is it a human with independent rights of self-determination?

04/26/2019

https://ctmirror.org/2019/04/25/fonfara-rebels-at-lamonts-debt-diet/

With a proposal for lawmakers to seize control of the state's credit card, a state senator is calling the governor's "debt diet" unpalatable.

04/25/2019

https://ctmirror.org/2019/04/24/connecticut-house-endorses-early-voting-125-24/

Early voting in Connecticut got a big and bipartisan boost Wednesday night in the House of Representatives.

04/16/2019

https://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/20190415_paid_fmla_clears_second_committee/?fbclid=IwAR0K4xBbCtw4ouuzY4uz7p-Z9X1MYttJrv99d8NMTBxTZEItRJF5HLNlnGw

HARTFORD, CT — Two bills that would require every employee in the state to contribute to a paid Family Medical Leave Trust Fund cleared the Finance, Revenue, and Bonding...