The Stan Simpson Show: A new state budget….Finally

Four months after a new fiscal year started, CT lawmakers finally passed a budget. The $41 billion spending plan was indeed a compromise. And there is no indication that meaningful structural reforms have been put in place to stop a similar impasse next year. Hartford Courant Capital Bureau Chief Chris Keating talks with Stan Simpson to break things down on the new budget — and also the fallout in “Hard—Hittin’” New Britain after favorite son Paul Manafort Jr.&rsquo