Archive of Connecticut on Wednesday July 01, 2009
CT: No budget deal to start fiscal year
By Jon Lender, The Hartford Courant
Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Tuesday that she has signed an executive order to keep state government running when the new fiscal year begins today without a new budget enacted.
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CT: Legacy of the Rowland scandal, five years later
By Jon Lender, The Hartford Courant
It's the kind of anniversary no one wants to commemorate: Five years ago today, on July 1, 2004, Gov. John G. Rowland resigned amid a corruption scandal that would send him to prison and scar a state.
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Financial crisis torments states
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
(Updated 11:29 a.m. EDT, July 1, 2009)
California may begin issuing IOUs this week because of the state’s unresolved budget crisis. But government disruptions were averted at least temporarily in five other states that missed a July 1 deadline for closing billion-dollar budget gaps.
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CT: State faces a new fiscal year with no budget deal
By Ted Mann, The Day (New London)
Hours of last-minute talks failed to produce a deal Tuesday, and Connecticut prepared to enter the new fiscal year today without an adopted budget for just the third time since 1991, when the state adopted its income tax.
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US: Colorado the least obese state
By Lauren Neergaard, The Associated Press, The Denver Post
WASHINGTON—Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.
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