INVESTIGATIONS
Twisted: Jennifer’s Law gets turned on its head in chaotic family court case
As three kids flee from home to home, advocates of Jennifer’s Law say a court filing has turned the law on its head.
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Inside Oddities: UConn’s Puppetry MuseumÂ
The museum, located on UConn’s Storrs Campus, was initially created to steward the collection of Frank Ballard, a puppeteer and University of Connecticut professor who died in 2010. Ballard started the University’s puppetry curriculum with its first classes in 1964.Â
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Grave Concern: A DCF-funded shelter for teen girls loses control
Missing girls, stolen vehicles, burglaries, physical and sexual assaults, sex trafficking and injuries to both residents and state troopers.
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In the wind: The escalating cost of Connecticut’s State Pier
The state pier and its managers would encounter a series of roadblocks and scandals leaving it open to intense and ongoing scrutiny.
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Examining Connecticut’s Clean Election Program, Part One
While Connecticut isn’t unique in providing a public financing option for some candidates, the setup of the program is. What is CEP?
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The Tweed airport expansion controversy
The Tweed-New Haven Airport Authority says the expansion is necessary to keep up with regulations and increase flights from a more convenient location, but residents of East Haven say it doesn’t outweigh the burden the expansion would thrust upon them.
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Complete Circle: One last ride on the Bushnell Park Carousel
Offering rides for just two dollars the carousel is crowded with children and parents riding one of the last such carousels in the world.
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A Right Deferred: Is Plea Bargaining Causing a 6th Amendment Crisis?
When 99.6 percent of criminal and motor vehicle cases are disposed of without a trial, what happens to the right to a speedy and public trial?
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Double Down: Connecticut’s questionable pension investments with local firm
Who holds responsibility for Connecticut’s investments, and what can prevent another decade of “lackluster absolute returns?”
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Full Plate: Tackling food insecurity in Connecticut
Providing healthy affordable meals is a cause that reaches across the boundaries of both politics and communities.
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Vexatious Requestor: Testing the limits of Connecticut’s FOI laws
As more people turn to FOIA as a way to discover public information agencies argue that the potential for abuse of the law is also growing.
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