The Day: Thin excuses for keeping the public in the dark

From the Day, New London
01/22/2023

At a Jan. 3 proceeding conducted by a Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission hearing officer, an attorney for the Connecticut Port Authority was pressed as to why the authority had waited nearly five months — until the day of the hearing — to hand over documents requested by The Day and columnist David Collins.
“My dog ate it,” testified the attorney. (Read More)

Feds conduct wide-ranging criminal investigation of port authority – The Day

08/18/2022
By David Collins

A federal grand jury has subpoenaed six years of Connecticut Port Authority records pertaining to a wide-ranging investigation of the quasi-public agency’s business, from its comprehensive management contract for New London’s State Pier to a communications/marketing deal that went to a former associate of Deputy Secretary of the State Scott Bates, when he was chairman of the authority. (Read More)