A Plainville electrical contractor pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing more than $3.3 million from 300 employees. Sixty-two-year-old Lee Ferguson owns and operates Ferguson Electric and Ferguson Mechanical. According to the U.S. Attorney District of Connecticut’s Office, from 2013 to 2017 Ferguson deducted around $1.60 to $3.15 per hour from each of his employees’ fringe benefits […]
The bipartisan bill represents the latest step in Bridgeport’s nearly three-decade pursuit of a casino development. It does not yet have the support of Gov. Ned Lamont and faces other obstacles, like the threat of legal action, to passage and implementation. The bill allows the Mashantucket and Mohegan Pequot tribes, who run Foxwoods and Mohegan […]
If you are brand new to public works projects, start at square one: familiarize yourself with Davis-Bacon and prevailing wage laws to better understand what’s at stake (check out the US Department of Labor website). There are very real consequences for violations, such as payment of back wages, additional fines and penalties, prosecution, and other […]
The first phase of the $1 billion green-energy and high-speed data center complex is a $100 million, 20-megawatt fuel cell. Construction will begin in the fall and the project will take place at the Stanley Works campus. According to the announcement, the company will spend $300 million in Phase 2 to build and renovate the […]
New Britain officials, led by Republican Mayor Erin Stewart, have embraced the CTfastrak bus rapid transit system as an economic engine, and it seems to be working. The mayor said in a recent interview that she expects 200 new units of downtown housing in place by the end of this year, with another 100 coming […]
The 485-megawatt plant went online roughly a month ago, providing energy to thousands of homes and businesses throughout the state. It also set in motion plans to retire PSEG’s longstanding coal plant next door, which officials say is scheduled for June 2021. Monday was the official opening. That includes PSEG’s $600,000 Ready2Work program which helped […]
According to the American Lung Association, all of our state’s counties receive a grade of “F” when it comes to the ozone. Metro-North mostly runs its trains on electricity, but its diesels are downright filthy as are local buses, though many fleets are converting to natural gas or electric operation. Even shipping by water contributes […]
Ideanomics in a court filing said the $21.9 million assessment was “grossly excessive, disproportionate and unlawful.” Based on West Hartford’s 2019-2020 mill rate of 41.8, Ideanomics would owe about $918,834 in property taxes this fiscal year. Meantime, Ideanomics last week unveiled renderings of its planned sprawling West Hartford project — previously estimated at $283 million […]
While the debate over electronic tolls may seem over for the summer, Senate President Pro Tem Martin M. Looney said Thursday that discussions are ongoing and a proposal could include tolling on some bridges combined with additional borrowing. The bridge-only proposal is the newest variation of ideas put forward this year, with others consisting of […]
The developer of a $1 billion fuel-cell powered data center in New Britain, slated to begin first-phase construction this fall, has secured a state tax break worth up to $55.2 million. It’s the largest benefit of its kind ever granted under the CI-administered relief program, which dates back well over a decade. The data center […]
