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Maybe it’s both. Day columnist David Collins filed a request to the Lamont administration back in September for emails between Lamont or those in his office and David Kooris, chairman of the Connecticut Port Authority. That is a straight-forward request. It should not be hard to use a search mechanism to come with all such emails. There are various exemptions in the FOI law that prohibit some documents and communications from disclosure, or portions of them, but the law requires a public agency to reference those exemptions if it maintains they apply. This is a process that should take week...

I don't know — but I can guess — what Gov. Ned Lamont doesn't want us to learn from withheld communications between his office and his hand-picked chairman of the scandal-plagued Connecticut Port Authority. After all, it was the governor himself who disclosed that the cost of port authority renovations at State Pier, crafted for utilities Eversource and Ørsted, has shot up a cool $43 million even before the authority made public the overruns, which state taxpayers will be responsible for paying. Clearly Lamont is closely involved with the port authority's project, which could end up as...