Proposed national education standards that, for example, would expect kindergartners to count by tens and eighth-graders to explain the Pythagorean theorem probably would not pose problems for most Connecticut students, state education officials said Thursday.
There were 3.4 percent more foreclosure filings in Connecticut in February than in January, as more borrowers fell behind in mortgage payments, according to a new report Thursday.
An expected drop in petroleum tax revenues due to more fuel-efficient hybrid cars adds urgency to Connecticut's discussion of tolls and other new ways to fund transportation projects, according to state Rep. Antonio "Tony" Guerrera, D-Rocky Hill.
NRG Energy should specify how many workers it plans to eliminate at each of its Connecticut power plants and provide assurance that the job cuts won't compromise operations or safety, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said.
A proposal to require health insurance plans to cover oral chemotherapy the same way they cover intravenous chemotherapy made it through the legislature's insurance and real estate committee Thursday.
A former state public defender has agreed to pay a $3,000 fine under an agreement to settle a complaint against him by the Office of State Ethics -- after his previous criminal conviction for taking money meant as restitution for crime victims.
Both political parties are taking tea party activists seriously and are wary of offending them – if they are not already actively wooing them for state races this fall. Just look at the governor’s election in Ohio. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Kasich openly touts his tea party credentials in his bid to defeat incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland. “I think I was in the tea party before there was a tea party,” Kasich famously told a Columbus crowd earlier this year. “This is a real movement with a real message about people’s frustrations by broken promises that leaders on both sides of the aisle would be foolish to ignore,” he went on to write in a blog posting.
