Paul Hughes

5 days ago | ctinsider.com | Paul Hughes |Alex Putterman

State legislators received a two-year, $55.8 billion budget plan on Monday that adds approximately $1.2 billion in spending in the first year and $1.4 billion in the second year. The budget plan that Democratic majority leaders and Gov. Ned Lamont negotiated represents a 4.6% increase in spending in the first year and a 5.3% increase in the second year.

3 weeks ago | ctinsider.com | Andreas Yilma |Paul Hughes

WATERBURY - Tavoyah Vernon is a mother of four children, ages 5, 3, 2 and 1 and works as a counselor at Waterbury's Gilmartin Elementary School. Her 5-year-old and 2-year are diagnosed with autism. Vernon said she doesn't have the option of staying at home to be with her young children.

2 months ago | registercitizen.com | Liese Klein |Paul Hughes |Eric Bedner

Waterbury Hospital seen from Holy Land in Waterbury. File photoA court-appointed patient advocate filed her first report Tuesday on the three Connecticut hospitals owned by bankrupt Prospect Medical Holdings, highlighting issues from food-storage concerns to emergency room overcrowding.

2 months ago | ctinsider.com | Liese Klein |Paul Hughes |Eric Bedner

A court-appointed patient advocate filed her first report Tuesday on the three Connecticut hospitals owned by bankrupt Prospect Medical Holdings, highlighting issues from food-storage concerns to emergency room overcrowding. Suzanne Koenig, appointed by a Texas bankruptcy judge to the role of "patient care ombudsman" earlier this year, visited Waterbury, Manchester Memorial and Rockville General hospitals in February for brief visits and filed her findings as part of a 112-page report.