Rep. John Rigby and Lt. Gov. Mike Fedele toured four manufacturing companies today, listening to company owners, employees and executives talk not only about the struggles they’ve experienced in this down economy but also their successes and targeted areas for growth. The two elected officials started the day at Becton Dickinson in Canaan, where executives [...]
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 [...]
HARTFORD — Rep. John Rigby on tonight voted against a huge tax-hike budget that held virtually no spending cuts while demonstrating the legislature’s majority party is unwilling to compromise to settle the state’s multi-billion dollar budget crisis. Rigby, who represents seven Northwest Corner towns, said the plan from Democrat leaders put a sales tax cut [...]
WINSTED — What will another tax on businesses do to manufacturers in this community and others throughout the state? One thing is for certain: It won’t help them create jobs for thousands of unemployed people in Connecticut. That was the message from business leaders here at Alcoa Howmet recently, when Republican state Reps. John Rigby, [...]
HARTFORD — Connecticut residents need jobs, not more taxes. Rep. John Rigby during a Finance Committee meeting today voted against a proposal from the legislature’s majority party that would impose more than $1.8 billion in new taxes at a time when people can least afford it. The balanced budget plan from Rigby and his House [...]
WINSTED — Gov. M. Jodi Rell stopped at Northwestern Connecticut Community College tonight and signed legislation pushed by Rep. John Rigby that would allow the school to pursue federal money in its bid to create a nursing program. College officials have sought to build a nursing program in Winsted to address the statewide shortage of [...]
HARTFORD — Help could be on the way for Connecticut dairy farms struggling to make ends meet because of the costs associated with producing milk, Rep. John Rigby said at the Capitol today. Rigby this evening supported a proposal that would create an “agricultural sustainability account,” a fund the state’s Commissioner of Agriculture would rely [...]
WINSTED — Two dozen people showed up tonight for a forum organized by Rep. John Rigby, who answered questions regarding the state’s unprecedented fiscal crunch and how the legislature will solve the problem. Rigby was assisted by Rep. Craig Miner, another House Republican legislator from Litchfield County. During the two-hour session at The Gilbert School [...]
HARTFORD—Rep. John Rigby joined House and Senate Republicans today in unveiling an alternative balanced budget that eliminates tax increases proposed by Democrats, while calling for concessions in health care and pension benefits from state workers that would save $662 million. What’s more, the “No Tax Increase” budget described at a Capitol news conference today preserves [...]
