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 [...]
WINSTED — Rep. John Rigby participated in a “Thanks for Giving” celebration organized by the Winsted Family Resource Center, held tonight at the Batcheller Early Education Center. Director Ruthann Horvay thanked Rigby for his advocacy efforts to preserve funding for family resource centers, the finances of which have been threatened by the state’s budget woes. [...]
Rep. John Rigby participated in Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s Council of Economic Advisers forum, where analysts said Connecticut is technically out of recession as measured by GDP. But those analysts warned that difficult times are still ahead. The housing market, for one, is five to six years away from rebounding to old highs.
COLEBROOK — Members of the Colebrook Lions Club received a briefing tonight on the state budget crisis, courtesy of state Rep. John Rigby. Roughly two dozen people were at the Old Newgate Coon Club in Norfolk, where Colebrook resident Rigby explained the state’s budget process — from committee work to House chamber voting. Rigby, a [...]
WINSTED — Rep. John Rigby met tonight with students from a child development class at Northwestern Connecticut Community College, where he fielded questions about how state’s fiscal crisis and the governor’s budget proposal would affect educational institutions throughout Connecticut. Many of the students were parents, and their questions centered on how local budget issues that [...]
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 [...]
Bipartisanship that saw the legislature nearly eliminate the state’s current-year budget deficit Wednesday left Rep. John Rigby hopeful that legislators can work together to streamline government. Rigby is pleased that House members approved legislation to eliminate $1.2 billion of the state’s $1.35 billion deficit without cutting state aid to communities in his district, increasing taxes [...]
HARTFORD – Connecticut residents support spending cuts pushed by Republicans – not tax increases – to balance the state budget, according to the recently released Qunnipiac University poll. By a 67-23 percent margin poll respondents said spending cuts and not tax increases should be used to balance the budget and wipe out the projected $8 [...]
State Rep. John Rigby praised Gov. M. Jodi Rell today for keeping her promise not to raise taxes and reduce the cost of government to bridge a projected multi-billion budget deficit. Rigby, R-63, is particularly pleased with two of the hallmarks in Rell’s proposal: The protection of education funds and relieving communities of millions of [...]
HARTFORD — There’s no better way to understand how the state’s fiscal woes will affect municipal budgets than to hear from the people in charge of them, Rep. John Rigby said Tuesday. More than two dozen leaders-mayors and first selectmen-from communities throughout the state were at the Capitol for a roundtable discussion organized by House [...]
