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Gov. Ned Lamont continues to scramble to limit the damage being done by growing revelations of an alleged contracting scandal at the heart of his administration.

Fallout from the pandemic, which has exhausted staffs and depleted resources across the state’s health care sector, could drive the change they’ve been seeking.

It is the rare moment when a Republican elected official intervenes to alter Democratic intentions at the Capitol. Full credit to House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora, R-North Branford, for discovering a fat favor embedded in the marijuana bill.

UConn Womens' fans need to get real; comp time for getting vaccinated?

Its been quite a week for Connecticut politics, what with some Republicans claiming last weeks riots in Washington were started by antifa leftists and the incoming House minority leader comparing the siege of the U.S. Capitol with the summers Black Lives Matter protests. Connecticut journalists have kept up pretty well with the turmoil. Some of the curious news twists of the week have actually pivoted on Connecticut journalism, both good and bad. On the good side of that equation, we saw fine r...

Published January 07. 2021 6:20PM  By Gov. Ned Lamont has been largely judicious in the use of the emergency powers granted him to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, which makes the administration’s decision to use those powers to steer a contract to a public-relations firm with strong Democratic Party connections all the more puzzling and troubling. In late December, with many folks distracted by the holidays, the administration announced it had entered into a three-month, $250,000 con...