A litigious California company is attempting to squeeze more than $1.3 million from Connecticut restaurants and bars for allegedly showing professional boxing matches without a proper license.
In the waning weeks of the legislative session, electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla is pledging to open 10 stores in Connecticut by the end of 2018 if lawmakers approve a bill that would allow the company to sell its cars directly to consumers.
A little-noticed bill passed by the General Assembly will continue to provide a liquidity lift to the state and some of Connecticut's larger banks and credit unions and the communities they serve.
Governor Malloy's tentative deal for concessions from the state employee unions identifies the kind of savings state government should pursue. But while it may go as far as any Democratic governor could go, it doesn't go as far as the state should go and, given its financial disaster, as far as the state could go politically. Thus the deal makes an argument that the state's next governor should be a Republican, if he or she isn't just another self-funding ignoramus.