Naomi Kostman, a junior at Greenwich High School, has won the first prize of $1,000 in this year’s Connecticut Foundation for Open Government high school essay contest. Read More

03/23/18 – By Christopher Peak Prompted by city lawyers, the New Haven Police Department turned over a copy of its new two-page hiring guidelines — with almost every line about drug use whited out. [Read More]

03/23/18 – By Steven Goode Two Blue Hills Fire District commissioners appeared before the state Freedom of Information Commission Friday to respond to a complaint filed against them last October. [Read More]

03/21/18 – By Leigh Tauss MERIDEN — The Board of Ethics is asking the City Council to create a bi-partisan ad hoc committee to consider revising the city’s Code of Ethics. [Read More]

Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer responds to audience questions about the First Amendment posed by moderator Norah O’Donnell. Breyer was a featured panelist at The Connecticut Forum, “An Evening with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer,” on Thursday, September 28, 2017.

03/09/18 – By Editorial Board The whole world is privy to President Trump’s innermost thoughts almost any time of the day or night via his frequently erupting Twitter account. [Read More]

03/11/18 – Release “If we want better government, we need better data.” That succinct observation by Michelle Riordan-Nold, Executive Director of the Connecticut Data Collaborative, summed up the push for legislation that would codify in state law an “expectation of increased access to state government public data.” [Read More]

03/12/18 – By Ted Bridis WASHINGTON — The federal government censored, withheld or said it couldn’t find records sought by citizens, journalists and others more often last year than at any point in the past decade, according to an Associated Press analysis of new data. [Read More]

03/11/18 – By David Fink I fear — as I read so many ignorant, obstinate comments about news and the reporters who gather it — that our democracy is at risk because too many Americans don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to the “news media.” The First Amendment’s sacred power of free […]

03/12/18 – By Niraj Chokshi To some, free speech on college campuses appears to be under attack, but what do the students themselves think? A study released on Monday offers some answers based on a survey of more than 3,000 of them. [Read More]