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Hints UConn President Radenka Maric will get contract extension

Analysts expect $1 billion extra in next biennial budget cycle

Sampson: ‘Trying to wrangle a very large caucus of members in both chambers is just as difficult as trying to figure out what to do when you have very few’

Pew report finds CT reserves are more than 40% greater than national median

Three Connecticut House races are close enough to trigger automatic recounts following Tuesday’s election, while a state Senate race and another House contest each missed the recount threshold by only a handful of votes.

Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, has been elected as the state Senate President Pro Tempore by the 33 incoming Democratic senators. Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, will serve as majority leader.

Lawmakers face pressure to deliver relief to working class

Connecticut House Democrats have endorsed Matt Ritter of Hartford and elected Jason Rojas of East Hartford for Speaker of the House of Representatives and House majority leader, respectively.

On the morning after what he called a tidal wave election that swept Democrats into power nationally and expanded the party’s state dominance, Gov. Ned Lamont laid out his priorities for the upcoming term, and said the results would not change his governing style.

Republicans lost as many as eight of their 11 seats in the Connecticut Senate and at least nine in the House, with some races still to be determined early Wednesday morning, leaving the GOP with its smallest-ever presence in the upper chamber.

After a GOP wipeout in elections across the country, Democrats in Connecticut outlined a vision of how they’d like to use their new majorities in Congress and specifically their newfound authority across several congressional committees.

Connecticut Democrats gathered Wednesday to celebrate Gov. Ned Lamont’s landslide reelection and Republicans’ stunning General Assembly losses as an affirmation of them and a repudiation of President Donald Trump that comes with opportunity and challenges.

The plan would also shift all special education costs onto the state.

The citizens group hoping to reform Connecticut’s oppressive property tax system will release its recommendations Monday, hoping to force candidates for state offices to take positions during the final push toward Election Day.

With gas prices on Connecticut residents’ minds, Republicans on Wednesday called on Gov. Ned Lamont and General Assembly Democrats to suspend the state’s gasoline and diesel fuel taxes through the end of the year.

Democrats targeted Republican candidate for governor Ryan Fazio for his vote against a comprehensive online safety bill during the last session, calling the Greenwich state senator an impediment to AI regulation.

Connecticut residents will be offered a series of free virtual webinars to help them better understand student loan repayment and forgiveness options amid continuing changes to federal student loan programs.

As Connecticut businesses brace for another round of double-digit health insurance increases, the state’s two candidates for governor agree healthcare has become an affordability problem — but offer significantly different ways to address it.

Plan to save families $2,000-plus hinges on fiscal good fortune, healthcare cuts

Republican gubernatorial candidate Sen. Ryan Fazio, R-Greenwich, and Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont laid out their competing priorities for improving affordability and opportunity in Connecticut, if elected.