Last month bean counters from H&R Block declared Bridgeport suffers from the highest tax burden in the country. How do these folks calculate this stuff and is
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Barnes Breaks Down What Car Tax Shift Means To The City, “Change Will Help Most Residents”
Ben Barnes, Governor Dannel Malloy’s state budget director, shares some insight into how the governor’s proposal to eliminate taxes on vehicles would impact taxpayers and
Read moreState Budget Director Ben Barnes: Most Residents Will Benefit From Car Tax Shift
Governor Dannel Malloy’s budget director Ben Barnes, in a comment he posted on OIB writes the governor’s proposal to put the brakes on auto taxes
Read moreYikes! Cuts, Cuts And More Cuts–Malloy, State Bean Counters Announce Budget-closing Measures
Social services, school-based health clinics and state universities were among the casualties of $170 million in cuts announced Wednesday by Governor Dannel Malloy to carve
Read moreMore Red News, $365 Million Hole
From Keith M. Phaneuf and Arielle Levin Becke, www.ctmirror.org This year’s state budget is $365 million in the red, nearly double the level needed to
Read moreState-Appointed School Board, Following Final Meeting, Makes Its Case For Progress
On Tuesday nine candidates for Board of Education will be on the ballot for a special election ordered by the Connecticut Supreme Court after it
Read moreBridgeport Battle At Bond Commission
From Ken Dixon, CT Post: The normally placid State Bond Commission boiled over in controversy on Friday when Gov. Dannel P. Malloy defended an earlier
Read moreState Education Chief On Forgivable School Loan: ‘How Do We Ensure The Conditions Are Reasonable?’
A story by Linda Conner Lambeck of the CT Post covers state officials’ perspective on providing safeguards for the $3.5 million forgivable loan to the
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