Robert Patricelli

Local business executives are ponying up cash to underwrite a Hartford-based film about Willie Pep’s boxing comeback. However, more funding is needed to get the movie off the ground.

Eight months after releasing its recommendations for improving Connecticut's economy and finances, the Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth returned recently with a pared down, follow-up report targeted at the upcoming legislative session.

Could state officials cut nearly $1 billion from the annual budget — without harming the grants and services most people care about?

A high-profile commission aimed at solving Connecticut's fiscal crisis and improving the state's economy on Wednesday released a second round of recommendations to curb the state's multibillion-dollar deficit and jumpstart growth.

Acknowledging that legislators are unlikely this spring to enact their complete, multi-tiered plan to stabilize Connecticut's finances, the leaders of a key state panel have agreed to pursue a piecemeal approach — for now.

A group of Connecticut labor leaders on Tuesday released a 15-page analysis lambasting the recent recommendations of the Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth.

Despite a potential risk to local aid, the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities has endorsed the full report of the Commission on Fiscal Stability and Economic Growth.

The leaders of a state-created commission laden with high-profile Connecticut CEOs promised to be bold, and it appears they've done so.

Seventeen people have been appointed to serve on a taskforce that will be responsible for comprehensively reviewing Connecticut's laws regulating the ability of healthcare entities to establish new facilities.