Two years ago, Superstorm Sandy flooded first-floor apartments at Washington Village in Norwalk. Now state and local officials are seeking to expand the project in the same flood-prone location u...
http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/12/15/deep-subsidize-affordable-housing-units-norwalk-floodplain/
The son of a Connecticut state employee cashed his dead father’s state pension and federal Social Security checks for 16 years until federal investigators learned of the father’s death in 201...
http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/12/09/son-dead-state-employee-cash-pension-check/
House Republicans say a controversial healthcare economist behind Obamacare received at least $120,000 for his work in Connecticut. Jonathan Gruber of MIT has been in the spotlight for recently p...
http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/11/18/republicans-gruber-paid-connecticut-work/
Remember Sustinet, Connecticut’s $1 billion-plus plan to combine Medicaid, state employee health plans and a government-run health insurer? In 2010, MIT health economist Jonathan Gruber perfo...
http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/11/14/jonathan-gruber-stupidity-american-voters-connecticut/
A complaint alleges that a political action committee run by a Democratic state representative failed to disclose its activity properly, including last-minute contributions to town party committe...
http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/10/22/complaint-targets-state-reps-pac-for-inadequate-disclosure/
The Connecticut Democratic Party raised nearly $350,000 in individual contributions to its federal account last month, including thousands from state contractors. The party reported its latest ha...
The Connecticut Democratic Party asked federal regulators earlier this month for permission to use a stockpile of cash from state contractors to support the reelection of Gov. Dannel Malloy, but ...
The Brookfield Board of Education unanimously voted Thursday to terminate Superintendent Anthony Bivona, confirming a decision the board originally made in May. The same board that fired Bivona e...
The Metropolitan District Commission has placed a lien for more than $2,000 in unpaid water bills on condos owned by Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra’s husband, Charlie Ortiz. Ortiz owns a number o...
A Norwalk affordable-housing project received another $1.3 million in state support, bringing total government support to more than $43 million for a project with an out-of-state developer. Bosto...
http://www.raisinghale.com/2014/09/10/developer-donor-43-million/