by Yankee Staff | Feb 7, 2012 | Civil Service Reform, Good Government |
VOTERS BACK OBAMA, MURPHY – AND ABOLISHING TEACHER TENURE EAST HARTFORD – President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney, 50-37%, among Connecticut voters, and would defeat Newt Gingrich by an even larger margin, 56-35%, according to a new Yankee Institute poll. Gingrich is...
by Yankee Staff | Jan 19, 2011 | Civil Service Reform, Good Government |
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,...
by Yankee Staff | Jun 14, 2010 | Budget, Education |
HARTFORD – The average Connecticut high school graduate cost taxpayers about $133,000 from kindergarten through senior year, according to new research by the Yankee Institute. For high school graduates in the city of Hartford, which has the state’s most expensive...
by Yankee Staff | Jun 26, 2009 | Budget, Good Government, Media |
HARTFORD – After the debate on the floor of the State House of Representatives regarding the elimination of the Citizens’ Election Program, Yankee Institute Policy Director Heath W. Fahle made the following remarks: “The results from last year’s experiment with the...