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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 ...
05/23/2020 – By Chris Powell Begun in secrecy, deception, and arrogance a year ago, the Partnership for Connecticut died the same way this week. Its tombstone should read: Let’s not Read More …
05/20/2020 – By Keith M. Phaneuf As Connecticut’s education partnership with Dalio Philanthropies evaporated Tuesday, an aggrieved Gov. Ned Lamont insisted his administration wasn’t done teaming with talented individuals from Read More …
05/19/2020 – By Kaitlyn Krasselt Barbara and Ray Dalio are exiting the Partnership for Connecticut, ending the arrangement that was touted in 2019 as a unique way to reach troubled Read More …
05/18/2020 – By Chris Powell Obsessed with the virus epidemic, Connecticut might not have noticed two deaths last week from a different cause — the murder of two women in Read More …
05/16/2020 – By Michelle France HEBRON — Exactly one week after RHAM Board of Education Chairwoman Susan Rapeyle made a whistleblower complaint about board members’ unethical — and possibly illegal Read More …
05/15/2020 – By Christine Stuart The more than 50 members of the Reopen Connecticut Advisory Committee will be making their recommendations about reopening Connecticut’s economy and schools to Gov. Ned Read More …
Wendy Zhang, a junior at Amity Regional High School in Woodbridge, has won the first prize of $1,000 in the 2020 Connecticut Foundation for Open Government’s Forrest Palmer High School Read More …
05/13/2020 – By Jon Lender There is already big trouble at the high-profile education partnership that Gov. Ned Lamont and legislators have entered into in the past year with hedge Read More …
05/12/2020 – By Daniel Tepfer BRIDGEPORT — The city has filed a lawsuit against the state Freedom of Information Commission seeking to appeal an order by the commission that the Read More …
02/29/2020 – By Paul Hughes HARTFORD — State lawmakers are considering voter privacy protections that trouble open government advocates and the state Freedom of Information Commission. (Read More)