Melvyn Colon News Today

The state is financing almost all of the cost of multiple school projects in Hartford, but investigators have zeroed in on the $150 million overhaul of Bulkeley High School on the city’s southside, according to public records and interviews with more than a half dozen people familiar with the project.In particular, the investigators appear interested in how Konstantinos Diamantis, the politically-influential former director of the state school financing program, persuaded Hartford to hire a se...

The first executive director of the Hartford Land Bank is leaving her role, and Connecticut, just as the gears started turning at the non-profit corporation, which she spearheaded to address the city’s scourge of blighted, abandoned properties.