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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 contract with McDowell Communications to handle communications about the pandemic and the vaccine roll...

Sometimes a government announcement raises at least as many questions as it answers. That’s what happened last week when the Lamont Administration announced it has entered a three-month, no-bid contract paying $250,000 to a public-relations firm headed by Duby McDowell — a former TV reporter with Democratic political ties who now co-hosts WFSB, Channel 3′s, Sunday Face the State program — to take the lead on news and communications about the COVID-19 pandemic for the state Department of Public Health.