“We’re on it, we’re active, but it’s just taking its time,” said West Hartford Democrat Lawrence Fox, the board’s chairman. “No one is slow-walking it.”
For its entire 15-year history, the state’s contracting watchdog agency has been a shell operation, battling to secure funds to hire an actual investigative staff.
And while the State Contracting Standards Board finally won that fight in May, it is well into its fourth month of the new fiscal year with no investigative team in place though officials say that’s about to change.
“We’re on it, we’re active, but it’s just taking its time,” said West Hartford Democrat Lawrence Fox, the board’s chairman. “No one is slow-walking it.”
For its entire 15-year history, the state’s contracting watchdog agency has been a shell operation, battling to secure funds to hire an actual investigative staff.
And while the State Contracting Stan.
Ned Lamont, 68, a Democrat, was elected as Connecticut’s 89th governor in 2018 and took office on Jan. 9, 2019.
He and his wife, Annie, are residents of Greenwich and are the parents of three adult children.
Here’s what you need to know.
Who is Ned Lamont?
Lamont’s family tree runs centuries deep in America, with branches in Wall Street capitalism and left-wing politics.
For several decades of the 19th-century, New London, Connecticut was one of the busiest whaling ports in the world. In 1876, the Central Vermont Railroad Pier in New London became the first and only 19th-century pier in the state of Connecticut. It brought a boom of trade to the successful seaport city as an interchange point for freight ships and the …