Rell rebukes Dems
With a new year comes a new legislative session. But as Connecticut lawmakers are discovering, it presents familiar challenges.
Gov. M. Jodi Rell, opening the 2009–’10 legislative session of the General Assembly with her State of the State Address last week, proclaimed that the trying times brought in by 2008 “will not go quietly in this new year.” The state is currently facing an expanding budget deficit as declining state revenues meet increasing demands for services. And with cities and towns across the state facing similar shortfalls, they are looking to the statehouse and...
One billion dollars this year, estimates of $6 billion to $8 billion for the next two year cycle. How?
I smell a default coming soon.