There’s a Web site available that will allow Connecticut residents to monitor the progress of stimulus-funded projects and track the availability and creation of jobs through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, state Rep. Penny Bacchiochi said today.
Bacchiochi, of Somers, said questions about how federal stimulus money will be spent have come frequently [...]
Check out this recent article published in the Journal Inquirer, written by Max Bakke. Rep. Penny Bacchiochi joined Rep. David Labriola in pushing a bill that that would install a criminal pentalty for people who witness specific serious crimes upon witnesses who don’t report them. Bacchiochi, a member of the legislature’s Public Safety & Security [...]
STAFFORD — Rep. Penny Bacchiochi tonight continued her road show that’s had her explaining the state’s budget woes to residents of the three communities in her district. Bacchiochi spent about an hour at Town Hall going through her slide show presentation filled with figures pointing to the facts she’s talked about for months: overspending in [...]
HARTFORD—Rep. Penny Bacchiochi this week called for revising Connecticut state law cited by insurance giant AIG to justify $165 million in “outrageous’’ employee bonuses.
Bacchiochi, of Somers, was at a Capitol news conference Tuesday with House and Senate Republicans who pledged to take action on the issue as early as next week when the legislature convenes. [...]
SOMERS — State Representative Penny Bacchiochi and Sen. Tony Guglielmo invited more than 200 veterans from this community as well as Stafford and Union to receive special wartime service medals today. Dating back to the Civil War Connecticut had a history of handing out these beautiful medals honoring returning soldiers. The state issued them after [...]
SOMERS — Binding arbitration, school testing and unfunded mandates were among the subjects on the minds of residents who turned out for a forum about the state’s budget woes tonight organized by Rep. Penny Bacchiochi and Sen. John Kissel. More than 100 residents attended the event inside Somers Elementary School, and several people posed questions [...]
State Rep. Penny Bacchiochi pushed for changes last week after she got a look at a deficit mitigation proposal that would have slashed education funds for students in her district. Legislators gathered at the Capitol to close a current-year deficit of roughly $1.35 billion. The original proposal from majority Democrats would have reduced special education [...]
Governor M. Jodi Rell today announced that the state has saved more than $1 million in payroll costs because of her directive in mid-January that asked non-union managers to take one unpaid day of leave. The Governor was among the 2,400 executive and non-union managers who voluntarily took an unpaid furlough day as part of [...]
