MASHANTUCKET, Conn. (AP) — Foxwoods Resort Casino headed in a new direction Thursday, breaking ground on a 300,000-square-foot retail center.
The Mashantucket Pequot tribal casino, fresh off renegotiating sizable debt and competing for a gambling license in Massachusetts, now joins the neighboring Mohegan Sun in broadening the casino brand to include shopping at Tanger Outlets at Foxwoods.
MERIDEN — A ruling by a state panel with jurisdiction over power plants should not impact a settlement between the city and the owners of an abandoned power plant on Cathole Mountain.
NRG owns the abandoned plant, which includes two buildings, a fuel tank and a water tank on the side of the Mountain. There had been plans to turn the site into a natural gas-fired generating plant. After dealing with financial problems, NRG later learned no new power generation would be needed in the state before 2022. In April 2012, NRG notified city officials it would be abandoning the project.
The state closed its $20.5 billion fiscal year 2013 budget with a $398.9 million surplus but continues to carry large debt and liabilities. The surplus was due in part to a strong market and high estate tax revenue and capital gains revenue as opposed to payroll tax revenue, which declined by 0.9 percent.
Dominion firms up plans for emergency center in Norwich
Norwich, Conn. —
Dominion Resources Inc.’s planned Norwich emergency operations facility will be used about six times a year for drills, with the potential to be staffed around-the-clock in case of an actual incident, company officials said Thursday. Dominion, the parent company of Waterford-based Millstone Nuclear Power Station, is hoping to construct a $10 million, 18,000-square-foot facility in Norwich’s business park that officials say should be functioning by the end of 2014.
Canton Energy Committee Supports Hydropower Project
CANTON — A committee overseeing the town's energy use is urging local officials to keep pursuing a hydropower project proposed for dams on the Farmington River.
The energy committee's chairman, Matt Stone, gave an overview of the group's work to the board of selectmen on Wednesday.
Will state investment in Steel Point give good returns?
The largest beneficiary of Friday's meeting of the State Bond Commission is likely to be Bass Pro Shops, for its new store in Bridgeport. The project is expected to get a total of $31 million in state financing for the $68.5 million project.
Should the state be putting this kind of money into this kind of project?
Metro-North may get partial electic service next week
Partial electric service may return to Metro-North’s New Haven Line next week, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Thursday at a news conference in New York’s Grand Central Terminal.
Malloy had emerged from an apparently heated meeting with Metro-North and Con Edison officials at which he demanded that full service be restored as quickly as possible. “Quite frankly I was pushing them pretty hard,” he said of Con Ed officials.
Malloy halts road work in wake of train delays
HARTFORD – The state Department of Transportation has been ordered by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to halt all routine roadway maintenance activities in lower Fairfield County as a way to ease traffic as a power disruption on Metro-North’s New Haven Line has sent many rail commuters onto the roadways. According to a prepared statement by the governor's office, routine work will be stopped on Interstate 95, the Merritt Parkway, the Post Road (Route 1), Route 7, Route 123 and some other busy roads the office didn't specify. “Needless to say, I am frustrated at this situation and continue to press the folks at Con Ed and Metro-North to fix it as quickly as possible,” Malloy said in the prepared statement. “But until the problems are alleviated, we need to take whatever steps we can to help mitigate congestion on roadways.”
Esty askd for congessional hearing on Metro-North disruption
Washington -- Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District, wasted no time in asking colleagues on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to request a congressional hearing on the Metro-North failure that will keep that commuter train line out of operations for weeks.
Canton Energy Committee Supports Hydropower Project
CANTON — A committee overseeing the town's energy use is urging local officials to keep pursuing a hydropower project proposed for dams on the Farmington River.
The energy committee's chairman, Matt Stone, gave an overview of the group's work to the board of selectmen on Wednesday.
Will state investment in Steel Point give good returns?
The largest beneficiary of Friday's meeting of the State Bond Commission is likely to be Bass Pro Shops, for its new store in Bridgeport. The project is expected to get a total of $31 million in state financing for the $68.5 million project.
Should the state be putting this kind of money into this kind of project?
Metro-North may get partial electic service next week
Partial electric service may return to Metro-North’s New Haven Line next week, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Thursday at a news conference in New York’s Grand Central Terminal.
Malloy had emerged from an apparently heated meeting with Metro-North and Con Edison officials at which he demanded that full service be restored as quickly as possible. “Quite frankly I was pushing them pretty hard,” he said of Con Ed officials.
Malloy halts road work in wake of train delays
HARTFORD – The state Department of Transportation has been ordered by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to halt all routine roadway maintenance activities in lower Fairfield County as a way to ease traffic as a power disruption on Metro-North’s New Haven Line has sent many rail commuters onto the roadways. According to a prepared statement by the governor's office, routine work will be stopped on Interstate 95, the Merritt Parkway, the Post Road (Route 1), Route 7, Route 123 and some other busy roads the office didn't specify. “Needless to say, I am frustrated at this situation and continue to press the folks at Con Ed and Metro-North to fix it as quickly as possible,” Malloy said in the prepared statement. “But until the problems are alleviated, we need to take whatever steps we can to help mitigate congestion on roadways.”
Esty askd for congessional hearing on Metro-North disruption
Washington -- Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-5th District, wasted no time in asking colleagues on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to request a congressional hearing on the Metro-North failure that will keep that commuter train line out of operations for weeks.