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We're #1 In Income Segregation
This chart, from a recent study by researchers at Stanford, shows the regions where neighborhoods are the most sharply divided by income. It's probably no surprise to see Fairfield County at the top of...
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Fresh Ideas From Yale Students Keep Young Residents Here
NEW HAVEN -- At first, he was just a Yale undergrad with an idea for the next big sports drink, but then Bob Casey switched gears and struck gold in old cell phones. There's a lesson here for all of...
View ArticleA Yale Entrepreneur: Zack Rotholtz Of Chairigami
Here's a short and shaky video conversation with one of the young entrepreneurs changing the face of New Haven. Zack Rotholtz, founder of Chairigami, is making cool cardboard furniture in a Yale-owned...
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Improving Economy? Could Be, According To CBIA
The Connecticut Business and Industry Association reports that more business owners feels the Connecticut economy will remain stable or get better -- 48 percent vs. 27 percent a year ago. Could be...
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Underwater? Over 100K CT Homeowners Are. Wow.
And we're among the states with the fewest number of residents with homes worth less than the mortgage. Yikes, almost 17 percent of homeowners have homes with negative or near-negative equity, almost...
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Holiday Shoplifting List
I was just going to tweet this because the list is kind of flawed. But it's about the same as reading about the sleazy lottery or CL&P fatcats pretending that they care. So here you go. On...
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Mortgage Foreclosure Mess: Cut A Deal Or Jail Time?
Frog-walking bank executives into a courthouse might make us feel like somebody is paying for the mortgage mess that has left us with millions of homes in foreclosure or worth less than nothing....
View ArticleAbout That Mortgage Deal, Mr. Jepsen ...
Not so fast, says Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who filed suit against the big banks yesterday, bucking a coalition of attorneys general who want to cut a deal with the banks. Our own...
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Reform Idea: Make Northeast Utilities Promise More Honesty
We don't need a consultant's report to tell us that Connecticut Light & Power was woefully underprepared for the Halloween snowstorm that left much of the state in the dark for days on end. Better...
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Film Credits Under Microscope: Lembo Wants Close Look
It's a good move because we ought to know whether the hundreds of millions in tax credits the state awards are worth it. At the top of the list is the controversial film tax credit program, which...
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Proposed UConn Tuition Increase: Amazing, But Average
University of Connecticut President Susan Herbst says she's looking at a "forecast" of tuition increases in the 5 to 6 percent range over the coming four years. I don't know many folks with income that...
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4.3 Job Seekers For Every Job Opening
From the Economic Policy Institute. I would've thought the figures would be worse than this.
View ArticleA Student's View of Proposed UConn Tuition Increase
Nicole Rubin is a senior from Norwich. She spoke up at a meeting with President Susan Herbst on the possiblity of years of tuition increases. Herbst says the school desperately needs additional...
View ArticleUConn Trustees Consider Tuition Increase
It's painful enough that the University of Connecticut makes a business-as-usual announcement that tuition may rise by 28 percent over the next four years. What's worse is this is just the normal state...
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Recession Story: The Better Off Are Better Off
Like you didn't know this. From Connecticut Voices for Children:
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