“two decades ago”
It’s hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube, right?
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2020 Fish Frenzy: A Quick Preview
By the afternoon of January 30, the PURA website stopped showing new applications for Docket # 19-11-01 “Public Educational and Governmental Programming and Educational Technology Investment Account Program Pursuant to Public Act 07-253. ” The program was supposed to be open to applications until the end of January 31, but the total dollar amount of […]
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Finance, Revenue, and Bonding Committee hearing 03/04/19 Connecticut Network recorded the whole 3.5-hour hearing, which listed 26 bills on its agenda. https://ct-n.com/ctn_stream.asp?odID=16076&autostart=false Written testimony for HB 5486 is online here. All are in support of repealing the statute that sweeps the PEGPETIA fund “in each fiscal year” after 2018. The whole recording is at this […]
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Joseph Schofield of Citizens TV (CTV for New Haven/West Haven/Hamden) requests your support for a proposed amendment to the statutes regarding CAP funding. You can see the details in the following Senate Bill 573 as proposed by Senator George Logan (dist. 17) CTV’s proposed amendment and (2d page) rationale for the amendment another analysis to […]
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Actually, as we write this, the House of Representatives has yet to pass what the Senate delivered last night. What’s in it for PEGs? Thanks to ctnewsjunkie, we have the link & number (SB 1502) to that budget bill. The OLR analysis helps us track down some sections, especially Sec. 680, summarized as: Beginning in FY 18, requires […]
Read more "At Last, a State Budget"37 INSTANCES OF 5 “BAD” WORDS
In another look at the budget bill HB 7501, amended in LCO 10072, (aka SB 1502 of the special June 2017 session) we find that those words (“and each fiscal year thereafter”) have been in CT General Statutes over the years for many other areas. Sometimes they appear in the budget bill because of rewriting specific funding statutes (“Section xxx-xxx […]
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