Beth Bye

The state Senate voted Thursday to give the Board of Regents for Higher Education the power to choose its own president. Under current state law, the board recommends candidates for president, but the appointment is up to the governor. The measure...

Republican Tom Foley, the 2010 Republican nominee for governor who hopes to reprise that role next year, ventured into a legislative public hearing last week. What a lesson the former ambassador to Ireland learned. You mention ethics at your peril in...

When Kevin Witkos proposed legislation to require bicyclists to ride single file on Connecticut roads, he never expected it would land him in the middle of a firestorm. "I got taken to the woodshed," he now says a little ruefully. "I didn't realize such...

Students will rise to the level of expectation. This line from Stand and Deliver, many a teacher's favorite movie, could very well describe the philosophy behind Public Act 12-40, the higher education reform law signed by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy earlier...

HARTFORD — Less than a week after the Newtown school massacre, state lawmakers are calling for sweeping new restrictions on guns and ammunition — while a key legislative leader says that the Bushmaster semiautomatic rifle used in last Friday's...

 Facing an estimated $25 million in renovations to its Greater Hartford branch in West Hartford, UConn plans to move the campus to downtown Hartford within a year, bringing along 2,100 students and 60 faculty members.     UConn President Susan Herbst...

Nov 8 Some 18,000 Connecticut Light and Power customers were still without power midday Tuesday, most in the Simsbury area. About one-third of Simsbury was without electricity, as was a quarter of Avon and Farmington, and many in Granby, Canton,...

These straitened times have struck even the Nobel Prize Committee. Laureates will receive financial rewards that are 20 percent less than previously. It is a bow to reality that there's not as much money for even the most accomplished among us....

HARTFORD — The long drive to abolish the death penalty in Connecticut marked another milestone Wednesday when it cleared a key legislative committee. The 24-19 vote in the judiciary committee broke largely along party lines and came on the same day...

Although the Institute for International Sport says it will still hold its March 10 program at Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, a spokeswoman for the school says it is reviewing the program in light of the nonprofit's "business difficulties."...

Both chambers of the state legislature voted Wednesday night in favor of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's controversial plan to recruit the nonprofit Jackson Laboratory to Farmington with a $291 million offer to construct a new building and create 300 direct...