Yankee Institute’s program “The Care and Feeding of Connecticut’s Congressmen” has taxpayers grumbling all across Connecticut as they learn about how their Members of Congress spend their hard-earned tax dollars. The project posted every line... 

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NEW STUDY PREDICTS SUSTINET WILL COST $2 BILLION ANNUALLY HARTFORD – The Connecticut version of Obamacare called SustiNet could add more than $2 billion in new annual spending to the state budget with no means to pay for it, a new study by the Yankee... 

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HARTFORD – More than a thousand state employees are paid more than Gov. M. Jodi Rell, according to data now available to the public at www.CTsunlight.org, and a dozen earn an annual salary of more than a half a million dollars. • In 2008, 1,137 state... 

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HARTFORD – The Connecticut Department of Corrections hired Huggles the Clown for $600. The Department of Veteran’s Affairs spent $1,210 on New York Yankees tickets. A total of 1,137 state employees are paid more than the governor, and 175 retired... 

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HARTFORD – The Yankee Institute is pleased to announce a fundraising event at the Riverside Yacht Club, 102 Club Rd, in Greenwich, Connecticut on February 25, 2010 with special guest Rich Lowry, the editor of the National Review. Mr. Lowry is a... 

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