Press Releases

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• 10/5/2017 Gov. Malloy Announces Site Selection for Connecticut’s Amazon HQ2 Bid

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) Commissioner Catherine Smith today announced that the State of Connecticut has chosen two sites for its proposal to Amazon for the company’s second headquarters – the Hartford and Stamford regions. Last month, Amazon announced that it was seeking a site for a second headquarters – known as “Amazon HQ2” – in North America, which will create tens of thousands of additional jobs and bring billions in investment.

• 10/5/2017 Gov. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Wyman Condemn President Trump’s Decision to Limit Women’s Access to Birth Control

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman today released the following statements regarding a decision by the Trump administration to roll back the federal requirement that health insurance plans cover birth control.

• 10/4/2017 Gov. Malloy Statement on the Passing of Board of Pardons and Paroles Member Jeff Hoffman

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today released the following statement regarding the passing of Board of Pardons and Paroles member Jeff L. Hoffman.

• 10/3/2017 Gov. Malloy Nominates Maria Araujo Kahn and Raheem Mullins to Supreme Court, William Bright to Appellate Court

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that he is nominating the Honorable Maria Araujo Kahn of Cheshire and the Honorable Raheem L. Mullins of Cromwell to fill vacancies as associate justices on the Connecticut Supreme Court – the state’s highest court. Both nominees currently serve as judges on the Appellate Court.

• 10/3/2017 Gov. Malloy Announces Charter Communications Relocating Captive Insurer Division to Connecticut

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that Stamford-based Charter Communications, the second-largest cable company in the nation, continues to expand its business footprint in Connecticut by basing its entire captive insurance operations in the state.

• 10/2/2017 Gov. Malloy and Charter Communications Announce Charter’s Plan to Build New Headquarters, Add Jobs

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Charter Communications, Inc., a Fortune 100 company and the second-largest cable operator in the United States, today announced the company’s plans to build a 500,000 square foot, 15-story headquarters at 406 Washington Boulevard in Stamford. Following its commitment to create and retain 400 jobs under the state’s First Five Program in 2012, Charter has committed to create an additional 1,100 new corporate headquarters jobs and has agreed to a total of $100 million in planned capital expenditures in Connecticut over the next several years.

• 10/1/2017 Gov. Malloy: Flags Lowered to Half-Staff in Honor of the Victims of the Tragedy in Las Vegas

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that – in accordance with a proclamation from President Donald Trump directing flags to be lowered to honor the victims of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada – U.S. and state flags in Connecticut will fly at half-staff beginning immediately until sunset on Friday, October 6, 2017.

• 10/1/2017 Gov. Malloy and Lt. Gov. Wyman Statements on Las Vegas Shooting

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman released the following statements regarding last night's shooting in Las Vegas.

• 9/28/2017 Gov Malloy Announces Commissioner Connolly to Step Down from the Department of Veterans Affairs

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) Commissioner Sean Connolly will depart from his position with the agency effective Wednesday, October 4, to pursue other professional opportunities.

• 9/27/2017 Malloy Administration Issues Guidance to School Districts Regarding Enrollment of Displaced Children from Puerto Rico

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and State Department of Education Commissioner Dianna R. Wentzell today announced that they are sending guidance to every school superintendent in the state outlining suggested protocols to ensure that any student arriving from Puerto Rico, or any affected storm area, has immediate access to school and expedited connections to the services they may need. In the days since Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria brought devastation to the island, the administration has received a number of inquiries from superintendents and other school officials requesting information on how to supervise this potential situation.

• 9/26/2017 Gov. Malloy Urges Federal Government to Provide Puerto Rico with Waiver on Shipping Restrictions in Aftermath of Hurricanes

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy this afternoon sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Elaine Duke urging the department to waive the Jones Act for Puerto Rico in the aftermath of two devastating hurricanes that have created a humanitarian crisis on the island.

• 9/25/2017 Gov. Malloy: Connecticut Continues Humanitarian Efforts for Puerto Rico, Sends National Guard Crew to Help Establish Communications Infrastructure

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that in the state’s ongoing humanitarian efforts to assist Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria, a crew of thirteen Guardsmen from the Connecticut National Guard departed Bradley Air National Guard Base in East Granby on a C-130H cargo plane on Tuesday morning and are headed to Puerto Rico, where they will assist local government authorities in establishing and maintaining urgently needed communications equipment that will be used in the ongoing recovery and response efforts. Almost immediately upon arriving, the Guardsmen – eight Soldiers and five Airmen – will set up Joint Incident Site Communication Capability (JISCC) equipment capable of connecting local, state, and federal-level authorities together through voice, video, and data communications.

• 9/25/2017 Gov. Malloy: Connecticut Officials Continue to Coordinate Recovery and Relief Assistance to Puerto Rico in Aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that his administration continues to coordinate the State of Connecticut’s recovery and relief assistance to help people in Puerto Rico, which is experiencing widespread damage and devastation in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and Hurricane Maria.

• 9/25/2017 Gov. Malloy: Connecticut Students Enrolling in Advanced Placement Courses at Significant Pace

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy and State Department of Education Commissioner Dianna R. Wentzell today announced that Connecticut public school students have significantly increased their participation and performance on Advanced Placement (AP) exams, according to results published today by the College Board. The number of students who took at least one AP exam in 2016-17 rose to 28,961, an increase of 4.9 percent from 2015-16. Those students took 53,106 exams, an increase of 5.1 percent from the prior year. Of the exams taken, 36,404 exams achieved a score of three, four, or five, also an increase of 3.6 percent from 2015-16. These improvements were evidenced among students from all racial/ethnic backgrounds.

• 9/24/2017 Gov. Malloy: Annual FBI Crime Data Shows Connecticut Saw Largest Decline of Violent Crime in Nation over Last Four Years

  Governor Dannel P. Malloy today highlighted the release of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) annual state-by-state crime report for the 2016 calendar year, which shows that crime rates continue to decline in Connecticut, which has had the largest reduction in violent crime of any state in the nation over the last four years. Since Governor Malloy took office in 2011, overall crime in Connecticut has declined by 18 percent, including a 20 percent drop in violent crime. The FBI is reporting that overall crime in the state is at its lowest point since 1967.