Andrew Fleischmann

Tim O'Brien, a Democrat serving his first term as mayor of New Britain, makes the case that state assistance to municipalities may be more generous than it needs to be as an age of austerity dawns. O'Brien did not intend to become a leading urban voice...

Obama supporters, the final national numbers coming in show that your candidate won re-election by more than 4 million votes. That wouldn't matter, though, if just under 150,000 votes in the swing states went the other way. Mitt Romney would have...

Advocates for education reform say the budget put forward by the General Assembly's appropriations committee last week slashes key elements of the state's school improvement efforts. "These cuts decimate essential reforms our kids need to be prepared for...

The leaders of the state's teachers unions aren't happy with how Gov.Dannel P. Malloydescribed the current tenure system in his State of the State address Wednesday — "the only thing you have to do is show up for four years" — but they say...

You might say Linda McMahon is the new heavy hitter in the world of education. Today, the newest member of the State Board of Education read a book to kids at The Kinsella Magnet School in Hartford and then handed out toy championship wrestling belts to...

Depending on the viewer, physics teacher Ernie Smoker's "energy transformation dance" could be interpreted as endearing, innovative or wacko. There is Smoker, 44, in his Guilford High School classroom more than a year ago, flailing his arms, short-...

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal called Monday for sweeping changes to the state's "adverse event" reporting law for hospitals, following a story in The Courant on Sunday showing that most reported mishaps are kept secret from the public and closed...

Paul Kramer will turn 68 on Thursday, a birthday that might never have been without the Metropolitan District's Reservoir 6. For the past 14 years, Kramer has left his Avon home in the early morning and power-walked its pristine trails, logging 20,000...