Larry Deutsch

— After hours of backroom deliberations and deal making, the city council on Monday voted to cut $8.6 million from Mayor Pedro Segarra's $543.9 million budget proposal. The cuts include reductions of $2 million to the police department; $1...

As the city council prepares to begin its budget-amending session today, one member is eyeing the registrar of voters’ office as a target for some of the cuts. The office has grabbed headlines throughout the last year or two for its infamous...

The city council has postponed its meeting to amend Mayor Pedro Segarra's proposed 2013-14 budget until Monday. Council President Shawn Wooden said Wednesday that council members need more time to talk about priorities and draft resolutions for amending...

City council members on Monday will introduce legislation calling for an audit of city-issued credit cards to be referred to the chief state's attorney's office and the Hartford Ethics Commission. The measure, co-sponsored by Councilmen David MacDonald,...

The nine city council members sworn in at the start of 2012 spent their first year largely in step with Mayor Pedro Segarra. The council approved numerous proposals set forth by the mayor, and both sides communicated regularly on major issues, from...

Signaling that it wants greater fiscal accountability as the city faces a projected $70 million deficit next year, the city council on Monday voted to override Mayor Pedro Segarra's veto of a proposal calling for a freeze on all overtime pay and hiring...

Liberal activists on the Hartford City Council have managed to block a long-term extension of the city's contract with Bank of America, but that doesn't mean Connecticut's biggest banking operator is losing Hartford as a client. Mayor Pedro E. Segarra's...

HARTFORD — Calling it "the start of a four-year odyssey," Pedro E. Segarra was sworn in Tuesday to his first full mayoral term. Segarra, the former city council president who took over as mayor in 2010 — succeeding Eddie Perez, who was...

Dozens of city cops and white patrol cruisers surrounded Occupy Hartford’s soggy encampment Tuesday morning to enforce Mayor Pedro Segarra’s order to evict the protesters because of “allegations of sexual assault and drug use” at...