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Revised Connecticut Budget Cuts Metro-North Fare Hikes, Saves Highway Tolls Revised Connecticut Budget Cuts Metro-North Fare Hikes, Saves Highway Tolls
Revised Connecticut Budget Cuts Metro-North Fare Hikes, Saves Highway Tolls Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Monday, Feb. 5 proposed these adjustments to the state budget that restore $4.3 billion in planned transportation projects, cancel proposed Metro-North fare hikes and add electronic tolls on state highways.  Malloy's proposed changes to the two-year state budget also eliminates the $200 personal property tax exemption, creates a new 25-cent deposit on wine and spirit bottles and eliminates education cost sharing for the 33 wealthiest communities, as reported here by the Greenwich Times.  Malloy released his Fiscal Year 2019 budget adjustments, building on the framew…

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by Jon Craig
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Top News In Brookfield: DMV Worker Arrested, Best Friends Killed In Crash Top News In Brookfield: DMV Worker Arrested, Best Friends Killed In Crash
Top News In Brookfield: DMV Worker Arrested, Best Friends Killed In Crash FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. — The arrest of a DMV worker in Bridgeport on charges of stealing money and the death of two best friends in a head-on crash on Route 1 in Norwalk topped the week's news in Fairfield County.  Here are the top stories of the week, as reported by Daily Voice:  Kimberly Brown of Bridgeport was arrested after police said she stole $79,000 while working for the DMV by exploiting a loophole while registering cars. She was terminated and charged with first-degree larceny by defrauding a public community, and first-degree forgery.  Two men were killed in a head-on two-car c…

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by Daily Voice