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🔒Nonprofit Notebook — December 5, 2016

Connecticut Humane Society raised over $42,000 through its Diamonds in the Ruff Gala Auction. The event was attended by over 125 guests and the money raised will be used to […]

🔒Union efforts to block state’s outsourcing troubling

My Aug. 1 column, “State's nonprofit-contracting system broken”, and this newspaper's Aug. 22 editorial, “CT's fiscal crisis presents reform opportunities,” both addressed the need for foundation-level reform of the state's social services delivery system using the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) as a case in point. I am circling back to this topic because of new information that casts the state-employee union's involvement in the matter in a negative light — suggesting that it owes someone either a credible explanation or an apology.

🔒Time to turn attention to budget, Hartford’s fiscal woes

With election season now over, it's time for state lawmakers to put aside campaign rhetoric and start tackling key issues that threaten the future prosperity of Greater Hartford and the state as a whole.

🔒Can higher PILOT payments save Hartford?

A long-standing state program that reimburses cities and towns for tax-exempt properties could help solve the Capital City's fiscal crisis if lawmakers would fund it to statutory levels, according to Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin.
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🔒Tips for tackling collective-bargaining negotiations

The campaign is over. The votes are in. Your employees have chosen to unionize. It's time to undertake the arduous task of building and maintaining a collective-bargaining agreement (CBA). What does this mean exactly? Where do you begin?

CTFastrak service delayed to UConn

The Connecticut Department of Transportation is saying that bus service from Hartford to the University of Connecticut in Storrs won't start until late 2017.

CT tags $11M for 20 TOD projects

Connecticut has earmarked nearly $11 million to fund 20 transit-oriented development projects across the state to spur economic activity and jobs.

Malloy names healthcare review taskforce

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.
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🔒After latest bankruptcy, Johnson Memorial looks for fresh start

Q&A talks with Stuart Rosenberg, the recently named president of Johnson Memorial Medical Center, which has emerged from bankruptcy and been acquired by Michigan-based Trinity Health.

🔒Criminal-justice reforms make economic sense

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy had a front-row seat to President Barack Obama's final State of the Union last week; a perch he earned for enacting many policies viewed favorably by the liberal commander in chief.
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