The Connecticut Plum Book

Posted on Jan 19, 2011 in Accountability and Transparency, Blog, Data, Research HARTFORD – The Yankee Institute’s Zach Janowski has assembled a listing of all the gubernatorial appointments to be made by Governor Dannel Malloy as he fills his administration in the Connecticut Plum Book. The data shows that Gov. Malloy has numerous posts to fill, including 23 commissioner-level positions, 22 deputy commissioner-level posts, and 91 paid appointments to various...
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Parks and Recreation

Posted on Nov 4, 2010 in Blog PERC, a Montana organization working to improve environmental quality through property rights and markets, recently posted an article on state parks.  Leonard Gilroy writes that states should consider letting the private sector manage state parks.  He points to several parks that have been leased to private recreation management companies.  Gilroy argues: Policy makers should ask, is there...
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Hope, Change, and Self-Governance

Posted on Nov 2, 2010 in Blog Scott Rasmussen of Rasmussen Reports had an article in yesterday’s WSJ.  Reflecting on his polling data, Rasmussen asserts that Americans want neither Democrat nor Republican candidates or politicians–but rather, a return to self-governance. He also states: Voters today want hope and change every bit as much as in 2008.  But most have come to recognize that if we have to rely on...
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Benedict Predicts the Fall of Foxwoods

Posted on Sep 21, 2010 in Blog WEST HARTFORD – At a breakfast organized by the Yankee Institute, author Jeff Benedict predicted the eventual collapse of Foxwoods as one of Connecticut’s most lucrative enterprises. Courant reporter Rick Green covered the event held at Rockledge Country Club in West Hartford: The big question will be whether foreign bankers — who have financed the casino’s striking...
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A Presidential Tax Cut for Liberal Elite

Posted on Sep 20, 2010 in Blog, Press by Dr. Lewis Andrews As the Bush tax cuts become a central issue of the midterm elections, more and more people are asking why President Obama, in refusing to extend them for “the rich,” has defined the upper income limit for middle class singles as $200,000 and for families as $250,000? How did the president and his party ever get the idea that $200,000 to $250,000 is a “middle...
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Standing Up for Fiscal Sanity

Posted on Sep 10, 2010 in Blog Rocky Hill, CT – Yankee Institute Executive Director Fergus Cullen appeared on the Connecticut Business and Industry Association’s “State Fiscal Issues” panel on Friday, September 10, 2010 at the Rocky Hill Marriott. With the State of Connecticut facing a potential $3.5 billion budget deficit and fiscal issues at the forefront of the debate, Cullen talked about the Yankee...
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