WINSTED — Plans here to create a nursing program at Northwestern Connecticut Community College gained momentum when Washington lawmakers in the House and Senate approved $350,000 in federal appropriations money in separate votes over the last couple of days. The legislation now sits on the desk of President Barack Obama, who has already said he’d [...]
WINSTED — Rep. John Rigby stopped by The Gilbert School this morning to chat with a classroom full of political science students. The teenagers invited Rigby to the school to discuss the state budget. Finance Committee member Rigby, of Colebrook, started by explaining the process used to build state’s biennial spending plan. From there, Rigby [...]
HARTFORD — Rep. John Rigby today joined Republican lawmakers in rejecting plans to cut town and city aid and instead proposed closing the projected budget deficit by cutting state spending by $466 million. Rigby and his House and Senate Republican colleagues called for immediate action from super-majority Democrats whose budget was unbalanced as soon they [...]
