New Poll Shows Voters Want Big $$ Out of Politics
More than $6 billion was spent nationally on this year’s elections and a poll conducted by two Washington-based good government groups suggests voters on both sides of the aisle are tired of big money...
View ArticleNew Report Shows State Residents Are Driving Less
Citing federal statistics that show Connecticut motorists are driving fewer miles in recent years, ConnPIRG is suggesting that the state government shift some transportation spending from highways to...
View ArticleConnecticut Drivers Are Driving Less
Connecticut commuters are driving less and utilizing public transportation more, especially in the state’s urban areas. That’s according to a report released Wednesday by the Connecticut Public...
View ArticleFairfield County Drivers Choosing Public Transit Over Driving
A new study published this week by the public-interest organization ConnPIRG finds that people across America's largest urbanized areas are driving much less than before, and Fairfield County is no...
View ArticleMalloy orders data dump
Abe Scarr, director of ConnPIRG (Public Information Research Group) Education Fund, a non-profit that advocates for greater public information, said the initiative would help Connecticut rejoin the...
View ArticleLess Driving On Campus
Over the past two decades, colleges and universities have increasingly taken steps to reduce driving.
View ArticleReport: Connecticut’s Fiscal Transparency Improves
Connecticut earns a “B” for transparency in government spending, according to an annual report card grading the 50 states in online access to data on where taxpayer dollars are spent.
View ArticlePublic Transit Advocacy Group Says Governor's Highway Widening Plan is "Bad...
Part of Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy’s $100 billion transportation overhaul includes an $11 billion allocation for widening I-95 the span of the entire state. But Connecticut advocacy group...
View Article12 of America's Biggest Highway Boondoggles
Given that expanding highways at great public cost doesn’t improve rush-hour traffic, there are better ways to spend this money, argue report authors Jeff Inglis of Frontier Group and John C. Olivieri...
View ArticleWill Yum! Brands Commit to Better Antibiotic Stewardship Policies?
"Despite these successes, we need to re-double our efforts to counter new threats from superbugs that increasingly diminish the effectiveness of antibiotics. We will continue to ramp up our consumer...
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