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View our latest newsletters and releases. News releases feature CFOG’s opinion on current issues of the day. Each issue of the newsletter of the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government includes Read More ...
“The Stories Behind the Biggest Stories of 2020” For the fifth year, the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government will convene a panel of top Connecticut journalists discussing how they landed Read More ...
The Connecticut Foundation for Open Government relies on contributions from those interested in the open conduct of public policy. To obtain funds needed for its programs, the foundation also applies Read More ...
The Connecticut Foundation for Open Government (CFOG) believes in the principle that open, transparent government is in the public interest. Some of our current board members share their thoughts… “Why Read More ...
08/03/2020 – By Chris Powell Congratulations to Connecticut billionaires Ray and Barbara Dalio for discovering at last a way to try to improve the education of poor children in the Read More …
08/02/2020 – By Chris Powell Maybe things will work out, but the police accountability legislation finalized by the state Senate this week and sure to be signed by Governor Lamont Read More …
06/09/2020 – Meghan Friedmann and Clare Dignan WEST HAVEN — An attorney representing the family of a man shot by state police said local police for months have ignored his Read More …
06/02/2020 – by Joseph C. Maya, Esq. The police union representing the Connecticut State Police rank and file has called out a member of the brass with ties to Eastern Read More …
06/03/2020 – By Mike Savino George Floyd’s death at the hands, or rather knee, of a Minnesota police officer demonstrates the difficulty in holding law enforcement accountable. (Read More)
05/31/2020 – Editorial With Connecticut emerging from the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Ned Lamont has hired Boston Consulting Group to assist in the reopening of the state. “What I hear from Read More …
05/20/2020 – By Marc E. Fitch The newly-formed Council of Non-Essential Businesses have filed a Freedom of Information request for all documents related to the Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group, a Read More …
05/27/2020 – By Mike Savino Ray Dalio took to Twitter over the weekend, doubling down on his stance that the Partnership for Connecticut ended because of a “dysfunction and damage Read More …
05/22/2020 – By Jeff Mill CROMWELL – Democrats are chiding Mayor Enzo Faienza for calling a special Town Council meeting this week during which he criticized Gov. Ned Lamont for Read More …
05/23/2020 – Editorial The big Connecticut news story this week was the collapse of state government’s education-oriented collaboration with Westport-based Dalio Philanthropies. Gov. Ned Lamont, a backer of the collaboration Read More …