“You’re talking about the capital city,” said Shellye Davis, a co-president of the Hartford Federation of Paraprofessionals, who has worked for 26 years in the city’s public schools system. (Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital, tried to declare bankruptcy in 2011, but state lawmakers there passed a bill to thwart the case from proceeding.) Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Malloy has also proposed legislation that would put Hartford under state supervision. Hartford is certainly not the first among Connecticut’s larger cities to veer toward bankruptcy; the state bailed out Waterbury in 2001 and a decade earlier, Bridgeport sought bankruptcy protection but it was blocked in court. “We’ve never had a municipality go bankrupt,” said the State House majority leader, Matt Ritter, a Democrat representing Hartford.

Source: New York Times August 15, 2017 14:04 UTC